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Neel Keller (Director) is making his SCR directorial debut. His directing credits include the world premieres of Dael Orlandersmith’s Forever, Kimber Lee’s different words for the same thing and Jennifer Haley’s The Nether. His other favorite productions include Sheila Callaghan’s Women Laughing Alone with Salad, Howard Gould’s Diva, Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing, Thomas Babe’s Downed American and David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union. Keller is an associate artistic director at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and has directed at CTG’s Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre. He also has directed productions for New York Theatre Workshop, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Remains Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Berkshire Public Theater and Pittsburgh’s City Theatre. Keller is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and Directors Guild of America (DGA).
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Takeshi Kata (Scenic Design) is making his SCR design debut. His New York credits include Gloria and Outside People (Vineyard Theatre); Forever (New York Theatre Workshop); BFE and Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons); 3 Kinds of Exile, Storefront Church, Through a Glass Darkly, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Port Authority and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theatre Company); Adding Machine and Orson’s Shadow (The Barrow Group); Gone Missing (The Civilians); and Pullman Car Hiawatha (Keen Company). Regionally, Kata has worked at Alley Theatre, American Players Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theater Center, Ford’s Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, Skylight Opera, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Yale Repertory. Kata has won an Obie and has been nominated for Drama Desk and Barrymore awards. He is an assistant professor at USC School of Theatre.
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Se Oh (Scenic Design) is making his SCR design debut. He recently designed BED, a new play by Sheila Callaghan and directed by Jennifer Chambers, at Echo Theatre Company. His upcoming scenic design project is Hedda Gabler, directed by Steve Robman at The Antaeus Company (opens June 2-3). His selected Los Angeles credits include Mr. Marmalade, directed by Olivia Trevino at The Garage Theatre and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, directed by Raina Pratto at Long Beach Playhouse. His associate opera and musical credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Paul Curran at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Le Roi Malgre Lui, directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, at Bard SummerScape; and Another Sun, a musical arranged by Joseph A. Baker, directed by Kim Jin-Young at The Hyundai Theatre Company. Oh holds an MFA in stage design from Northwestern University. sehyunoh.com
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Alex Jaeger (Costume Design) previously designed Zealot, Cloudlands, Goldfish, What They Have, Skylight, But Not for Me, All My Sons, True West, Nostalgia, Play Strindberg and Two Sisters and a Piano at SCR. Jaeger’s additional credits include Mr. Burns for Guthrie Theater; A Parallelogram and Other Desert Cities for the Mark Taper Forum; The Nether, Eclipsed and The Paris Letter for the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Major Barbara for Theatre Calgary; Arcadia, Rock ’n’ Roll, Maple and Vine, Once in a Lifetime, The Homecoming and more for American Conservatory Theater; Two Sisters and a Piano for The Public Theater; Wiesenthal at the Acorn Theatre (also at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and the Royal Manitoba Theatre); A Wrinkle in Time, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and August: Osage County for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Extraordinary Chambers, Love, Loss and What I Wore and Third for the Geffen Playhouse; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance for the Rubicon Theatre; 15 productions at Magic Theatre, San Francisco; Life is a Dream for California Shakespeare Theater; Romeo and Juliet, Gulls, Light and Gilgamesh for The Theatre @ Boston Court; 14 productions at Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C.; and Breaking Through, Looped, Doubt and Talley’s Folly for Pasadena Playhouse.
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Elizabeth Harper (Lighting Design) returns to SCR, where she previously designed Venus in Fur and Reunion. Her regional credits include Immediate Family and A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Phylicia Rashad, and Woman Laughing Alone with Salad (Center Theatre Group); Play Dead (directed by Teller); and Wait Until Dark, Bad Jews and Good People (Geffen Playhouse). Her Los Angeles credits include The Twentieth-Century Way (The Theatre @ Boston Court, 2010 Ovation Award nominee for Best Lighting Design) and Crescent City (The Industry). She served as a technical consultant for art installations at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Greene Naftali. Her industrial lighting projects include shows and events for Microsoft, On-Live, Ubisoft and Universal Studios. Harper holds an MFA in design for stage and film from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is a guest lighting design instructor and lecturer at CalArts. eharperdesign.com
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Peter Bayne (Composer/Sound Design) returns to SCR where previously he designed James and the Giant Peach. His other theatre credits include A Noise Within (The Tempest, You Can Never Tell), The Fountain Theatre (Dream Catcher, Painter Rocks of Revolver Creek, Citizen, Reborning, The Brothers Size, Broomstick, In the Red and Brown Water, A Normal Heart, The Blue Iris, Cyrano, On the Spectrum, Bakersfield Mist, Opus, Coming Home, El Nogalar, Shining City), The Antaeus Company (Cloud 9, Henry IV Part 1, The Liar, The Malcontent), Rubicon Theatre Company (Other Desert Cities), The Colony Theatre (Year Zero), The Actor’s Gang (Break the Whip), Rogue Machine Theatre (Lost Girls), Skylight Theatre Company (Forever House, Disconnection), Theatre of Note (Copy) and Elephant Theatre Company (Unorganized Crime, Twilight of Schlomo, Parasite Drag, 100 Saints You Should Know, Revelation). His other regional credits include American Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare and Company and Actor’s Shakespeare Project. Bayne is active as a composer in film and television. He produces dance music and performs in indie bands. He earned a BA in music from Vassar and an MFA in composition and theory from Brandeis. peterbayne.com
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John Glore (Dramaturg) has been SCR’s associate artistic director since 2005, following five years as resident dramaturg for L.A.’s Center Theatre Group. He previously served as SCR’s literary manager from 1985 to 2000. He has worked as dramaturg on more than 100 SCR productions, workshops and readings including the Pacific Playwrights Festival world premieres of Mr. Wolf, by Rajiv Joseph and Five Mile Lake, by Rachel Bonds. His ongoing collaboration with Culture Clash has included co-writing new adaptations of two plays by Aristophanes, The Birds (co-produced by SCR and Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 1998) and Peace (at the Getty Villa in 2009); and serving as dramaturg on four other Culture Clash productions. His own plays have been produced at SCR, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and other theatres across the country. His adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time debuted at SCR in 2010 and has since moved on to more than a dozen productions nationwide.
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Sue Karutz (Stage Manager) has been part of the stage management team at SCR on more than 15 productions, her favorite being this season’s One Man, Two Guvnors. Elsewhere, she has toured with The Black Rider (London, San Francisco, Sydney, Los Angeles), Wicked (Chicago, L.A., San Francisco), Les Misérables (U.S., Canada, China and Korea) and Cirque du Soleil’s Corteo (Russia and Belgium). Off-Broadway, she earned her Equity card on Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly. Karutz has stage-managed for Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, Falcon Theatre, Deaf West, Laguna Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Alpine Theatre Project and The National Theatre of the Deaf. When not at SCR, she is often running “Mickey and the Magical Map” at Disneyland.
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