Creative Team |
Bart DeLorenzo (Director) returns to SCR where he directed the world premieres of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Doctor Cerberus and Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, as well as Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. He is the founding artistic director of Evidence Room theatre in Los Angeles, where he directed many premieres, including plays by David Greenspan, Naomi Wallace, Martin Crimp, Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dahlquist, Kelly Stuart, David Edgar and Edward Bond. Other directing credits include Donald Margulies’ Coney Island Christmas (Geffen Playhouse), Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (A Noise Within), King Lear (The Antaeus Company), and Michael Sargent’s The Projectionist (Kirk Douglas Theatre). He is on the faculty at CalArts. For his work, he has received six LA Weekly awards, three Backstage Garlands, three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, and is the 2012 recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s Alan Schneider Director Award. |
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Keith Mitchell (Scenic Design) is delighted to return to SCR after last designing Anastasia Krupnick. Before that, he designed two Junie B. Jones shows, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Ben and the Magic Paintbrush. By day, Mitchell is an Emmy Award-winning art director and works on a variety of television and film projects. He has designed productions for A Noise Within, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Geffen Playhouse, Getty Villa, Bootleg Theater, Evidence Room, Lewis Family Playhouse, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, The Matrix Theatre Company, Artworks, Celebration Theatre, 24th Street Theatre and created a 24-hour installation for Glow at Venice Beach. He has designed over 20 shows for The Falcon Theatre. He was the principal developing artist for the Childsplay production Rock, Scissors, Paper, which was awarded a Rockefeller Grant. He just concluded his 10th season as scenic consultant for Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Summersounds, Music and Art for Kids at the Hollywood Bowl. |
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Ann Closs-Farley (Costume Design) is making her SCR debut. Her recent credits include ModRock: The Musical, Annapurna, American Misfits, Coney Island Christmas, Eric Idle’s What About Dick?, The Pee-wee Herman Show (on Broadway), Disney’s Toy Story: The Musical, An Evening Without Monty Python, Gronholm Method, Beat Goes On, Cabaret of Souls, Margo Veil and Around The World in 80 Days. She has received multiple Ovation Awards and the Center Theatre Group’s Richard E. Sherwood Award for Emerging Artists. She is a long-time member of the Evidence Room and The Actors’ Gang theatre companies in Los Angeles. Closs-Farley also styles the World Poker Tour, designs for Kaiser Permanente Theatricals, and is an art director for Big Machine Productions. annclossfarley.com |
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Tom Ontiveros (Lighting Design) designs with light and projection for theatre, dance and live music. His credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat, Sideways Stories from Wayside School (SCR); The Exonerated (New York City premiere); The Tune In Festival (Park Avenue Armory); Schick Machine (Hong Kong Cultural Centre); The Tyrant (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art); Garden of Deadly Sound (Hungarian National Theatre Festival); The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (with conductor Marin Alsop);; Slide, directed by Rinde Eckert (Ojai Music Festival); Garden of Lila (Japan America Theatre); Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse); Placas, directed by Michael John Garcés (San Francisco International Arts Festival); and Seed, Café Vida, Making Paradise and On Caring for the Beast (Cornerstone Theatre). He also designed for venues including San Diego Museum of Art, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Mondavi Center, Joyce SoHo, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Zellerbach Studio Theatre and The Culture Project, New York City. He is an assistant professor of lighting design at USC. |
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John Ballinger (Original Music/Soundscape) returns to SCR, where his previous shows include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (composer/sound design/musical director) and The Borrowers (composer/sound design). He is an award-winning composer/sound designer/musical director and CalArts alumnus. He has recorded, toured or performed with Moira Smiley and VOCO, Tracy Bonham, Rufus Wainwright, Van Dyke Parks and “Dancing With the Stars.” His work as a composer includes scores and songs for television, short films, theatre and live events. His notable collaborations include original music, design and musical direction for the “Joan Rivers Show” and Coney Island Christmas at Geffen Playhouse; Celebration of the Lizard (The Doors musical) at San Diego Repertory; Cymbeline at A Noise Within; Echo’s Hammer, 1001, and The Government Inspector at Theatre @ Boston Court; and Annapurna at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble. |
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Jason H. Thompson (Projection Design) returns to SCR where he designed Ordinary Days (directed by Ethan McSweeny) and A Wrinkle in Time (directed by Shelley Butler) Broadway and New York credits include Baby It’s You!, Venice (The Public Theater), Remember Me (Parsons Dance Company, Joyce Theatre/national tour) and This Beautiful City (Vineyard Theatre). His recent credits include Citizen Twain (Val Kilmer, national tour); Tales from Hollywood (Guthrie Theater); Cage Songbooks (San Francisco Symphony, Carnegie Hall, New World Symphony); Heart of Darkness (The Actor’s Gang, Los Angeles); The Great Immensity (Kansas City Repertory, TED Conference); No Good Deed (Furious Theatre Company, LADCC nomination); Re:Union (Vancouver, Jessie Award nomination); Venice (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Kansas City Rep, LA Ovation Award); Bad Apples (Circle X Theatre Company); and Justin Love (Celebration Theatre, LA Weekly Award nomination). He has also designed video for Stars on Ice for the last seven years. |
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Kelly L. Miller (Dramaturg) is the literary director of SCR and the co-director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Regionally, she has worked at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and as the literary manager of Long Wharf Theatre and Playscripts, Inc. In 2008, she co-founded Creative Destruction, a company dedicated to the support of playwrights and the development of new work. Her favorite dramaturgy at SCR includes The Parisian Woman, The Whale, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, The Prince of Atlantis, Completeness, Circle Mirror Transformation, Becky Shaw, Doctor Cerberus, Saturn Returns and Emilie; Big Love, War of the Worlds and Creditors (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Hearts, Wintertime and Going Native (Long Wharf Theatre). Miller has worked as a freelance consultant and writer for The Playwrights’ Center, The Public Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, New Dramatists, NEA/Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, PlayPenn, Carnegie Mellon and The Kennedy Center. |
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Jennifer Ellen Butler (Stage Manager) has been a part of the stage management team at SCR for 11 seasons and more than 40 productions, and is thrilled to be kicking off the 50th Season in the Argyros. Her other theatre credits include Laguna Playhouse, Utah Shakespearean Festival, California Shakespeare Theatre, TheatreWorks, Perseverance Theatre, Spoleto Festival USA and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. She has also stage managed operas for Long Beach Opera and Pacific Repertory Opera. Butler has a BA in theatre arts from UC Santa Cruz and has been a member of Actors’ Equity since 2007. |