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Shelley Butler (Director) returns to SCR where she directed NewSCRipts readings of The Groundling, Bob and Incendiary; PPF readings of Fast Company and How the World Began; and Theatre for Young Audiences productions of OZ 2.5, The Borrowers, A Wrinkle in Time, The Brand New Kid, Charlotte’s Web and James and the Giant Peach. Butler has worked extensively with writers on new plays and musicals accumulating more than 30 Broadway, off-Broadway and regional credits to date. Her recent productions include the world premiere of The Most Deserving by Catherine Trieschmann (Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Women’s Project Theater), This is Fiction by Megan Hart, starring Richard Masur at Cherry Lane Theatre. She has developed more than two-dozen new plays at companies including Hartford Stage, Denver Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, New York Stage and Film, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Women’s Project, The Lark Theater, PlayPenn, New Dramatists and Ma-Yi Theater Company. Butler is the recipient of a Drama League Directing Fellowship, was a 2005 Director’s Guild of America Trainee, is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and serves as associate director on Beautiful: The Carol King Musical.
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Takeshi Kata (Scenic Design) returns to SCR after designing Office Hour last season. His New York credits include Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); Gloria and Outside People (Vineyard Theatre); Forever (New York Theatre Workshop); BFE and Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons); Through a Glass Darkly, Port Authority and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theatre Company); Adding Machine and Orson’s Shadow (The Barrow Group) and Gone Missing (The Civilians). 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 Theatre. Kata has won an Obie Award 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 Hyun Oh (Scenic Design) returns to SCR after designing Office Hour last season. His upcoming scenic design project is Yoga Play at South Coast Repertory (starts April 19). His recent scenic design credits include Building the Wall (Fountain Theatre); Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Artists At Play and Lounge Theatre); Hedda Gabler (Antaeus Theatre Company); and BED (Echo Theatre Company). His musical/opera credits include Another Sun (associate design, Hyundai Theatre Group); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (associate design, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma); and Le Roi Malgre Lui (associate design, Bard SummerScape). He holds an MFA in theatre design from Northwestern University and works in theatre and architecture. sehyunoh.com
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Sara Ryung Clement (Costume Design) returns to SCR where her recent projects include costumes for 4000 Miles, Completeness and Becky Shaw; sets and costumes for How the World Began; and the set design for Absurd Person Singular. Her regional theatre credits include Vietgone (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Model Apartment (Geffen Playhouse); The Astronaut Farmworker (La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour); Sunsets and Margaritas (Denver Center Theatre Company, Theatreworks); Hearts (Center Stage Baltimore); Kentucky, Washer/Dryer, Steel Magnolias (East West Players); atTraction, A Holtville’s Night Dream (Cornerstone Theater Company); Hold These Truths, This Wonderful Life (Perseverance Theatre); Seven Spots on the Sun, The Golden Dragon (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Night of the Iguana, Hamlet (A Noise Within); Miss Julie (Yale Repertory Theatre); They Don’t Talk Back, Off the Rails (Native Voices at the Autry); and others. She is on the set design faculty at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She earned her MFA from Yale School of Drama. sararyungclement.com
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Tom Ontiveros (Lighting Design) returns to SCR having previously designed Going to a Place where you Already Are, Fast Company, The Motherf**ker with the Hat and The Long Road Today. His work also has been seen off-Broadway in The Exonerated (The Culture Project) and Tune in Festival (Park Avenue Armory). His other New York credits include Happy Days (The Flea), Patience, Fortitude, and other Antidepressants (INTAR), Nada Que Declarar (Danspace) and Veils, Vestiges and the Aesthetics of Hidden Things (Ontological Hysteric Theater). His regional theatre credits include They Don’t Talk Back, Guards at the Taj, Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse); Vicuña, Gordon Davidson Memorial (Center Theatre Group); and My Old Lady, Visions of Kerouac (Marin Theatre Company). Internationally, he designed Schick Machine (Hong Kong Cultural Centre) and Garden of Deadly Sound (Hungarian National Theatre). His other Los Angeles credits include Figaro ¡90210! (LA Opera), Animals out of Paper (East West Players), Café Vida, Seed, West Hollywood Musical (Cornerstone Theater Company) and The Gospel at Colonus (Ebony Rep). His awards include The Exonerated (Lucille Lortel, Unique Theatrical Experience), My Barking Dog (L.A. Critics Choice Award, Best Lighting Design), Shiv (Nominated Best Projection Design, StageRaw) and Completeness (Nominated Best Lighting, Ovation).
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Cricket S. Myers (Sound Design) is thrilled to return to SCR after designing The Siegel, Red, Mr. Wolf, Zealot, Trudy and Max in Love, 4000 Miles, The Fantasticks, The Parisian Woman, Sight Unseen, Elemeno Pea, The Trip to Bountiful and Three Days of Rain. On Broadway, she earned a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her design of Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. She also has designed regionally at the Ahmanson Theatre (Sunshine Boys), Mark Taper Forum (Bent, Steward of Christendom, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), La Jolla Playhouse (Guards at the Taj, Sideways, The Nightingale), Kirk Douglas Theatre (Endgame, Twist Your Dickens, The Little Dog Laughed), Pasadena Playhouse (Stoneface, Above the Fold), The Los Angeles Theater (Carrie), The Montalban (I Only Have Eyes) and Geffen Playhouse (Play Dead, Wrecks, Some Girls). Myers also designed Tangled, The Musical for the Disney Magic cruise ship. She has earned 20 Ovation Award nominations and won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Kinetic Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and Garland Awards. cricketsmyers.com
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Kimberly Colburn (Dramaturg) is South Coast Repertory’s literary director and co-director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Her recent dramaturgical work has included the world premiere productions of Going to a Place where you Already Are by Bekah Brunstetter, Orange by Aditi Kapil, and Future Thinking by Eliza Clark. Formerly, she was the literary manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she was the dramaturg for the world premieres of Partners by Dorothy Fortenberry, The Roommate by Jen Silverman and Dot by Colman Domingo, among others. Prior to that, she was associate literary director at SCR and was the dramaturg for world premieres of The Long Road Today by José Cruz González, Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love and A Wrinkle in Time adapted by John Glore, among dozens of other productions, workshops and readings. She has worked with companies including Los Angeles Opera, Mixed Blood Theatre, Sledgehammer Theatre, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Critical Mass Ensemble, Artists at Play and Native Voices at the Autry Museum of the American West.
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Bree Sherry (Stage Manager) has previously worked off-Broadway on These Paper Bullets! (Atlantic Theater Company). Her regional theatre credits include Destiny of Desire (SCR); These Paper Bullets! (The Geffen Playhouse); Kiss Me Kate (Pasadena Playhouse); Princess & Pirates (Kirk Douglas Theatre), A Snow White Christmas (San Diego Repertory); Shear Madness and 12 Angry Men (Florida Repertory Theatre); The Reduced History of Comedy Abridged, Talley’s Folly, Equally Divided, Stella & Lou, Devil’s Music and Mrs. Mannerly (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Nutcracker and The Sun Also Rises (The Washington Ballet); Bad Jews, The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Studio Theatre); A Christmas Carol, A Doll House, Dial “M” for Murder, Masquerade, Steel Magnolias and The Sunset Limited (Triad Stage); and The Servant of Two Masters and Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre). She is operations manager for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, touring stage manager with the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and has served as production manager for UC-Santa Barbara’s Department of Theatre and Dance. She has worked on the Latin Grammy and the Drama Desk Awards. She earned her BA in technical theatre and design from Elon University and her MFA in stage management from Yale University, School of Drama.
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