Mike Donahue (Director) is a New York-based director. His New York City credits include the world premieres of Matthew Lopez’s The Legend of Georgia McBride (MCC Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Joe A. Callaway Award, Outer Critics Circle Nomination); Jordan Seavey’s Homos, or Everyone In America (Labyrinth Theater Company); Jen Silverman’s Phoebe in Winter (Clubbed Thumb), The Hunters (Cherry Lane Mentor Project) and The Moors (The Playwrights Realm); and Ethan Lipton’s Red-Handed Otter (The Playwrights Realm). Regionally, he directed the world premieres of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Humana Festival of New American Plays) and Collective Rage (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Rachel Bonds’ The Wolfe Twins (Studio Theatre) and Swimmers (Marin Theatre Company); and Lauren Feldman’s Grace, or The Art of Climbing (Denver Center for the Performing Arts). He has directed readings and workshops at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Underground, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, McCarter Theatre Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and Ars Nova. Donahue is the recipient of a Fulbright Artist Grant-Berlin, the Dramaleague Fall Fellowship, The Boris Sagal Fellowship at Williamstown and was the artistic director of the Yale Summer Cabaret for two seasons. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama. Coming up, he’ll direct Curve of Departure for Studio Theatre and the world premiere of Matthew Lopez’s Zoey’s Perfect Wedding (Denver Center for the Performing Arts).
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Lauren Helpern (Scenic Design) has designed scenery for numerous critically acclaimed productions including 4000 Miles at Lincoln Center Theater (Lucille Lortel Award); the Pulitzer Prize-winner Disgraced at Lincoln Center’s LCT3; The Model Apartment for Primary Stages, which was on Time magazine’s and Ben Brantley’s New York Times’ “Best of Theater” lists; Bad Jews at Roundabout Theatre Company, which was on AM New York’s Top 10 list; BUG at Barrow Street Theatre (Obie Award); and Blue Man Group/Live at Luxor in Las Vegas (Eddy Award, also productions in Boston and Chicago). Based in New York City, she has designed on and off-Broadway and for companies including Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, La MaMa, Second Stage and TheatreworksUSA. Regionally, she has designed at La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, The Old Globe, Arizona Theatre Company, Huntington Stage Company, Portland Center Stage, Guthrie Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Chautauqua Theatre Company and Anchorage Opera, among others. She is a production designer for the web series “Janice Gunter: Ghost Hunter.” Helpern has designed events and benefits for a diverse group of clients. Her work can be seen at laurenhelpern.com.
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Rachel Myers (Costume Design) is a designer for stage and film in both costume and scenic design. She has designed for many regional theatres including Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, The Shakespeare Theatre, Getty Villa, The Watermill Center and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her Los Angeles design credits include Rattlestick West, Los Angeles Ovation Awards, International Artist Managers’ Association, The Theatre @ Boston Court and VS. Theatre Company. Her production design film credits include Short Term 12 (winner of SXSW and Independent Spirit awards), The Drowning, Search Party, Identity Theft, Chronicles Simpson, Saving Lincoln and Liminal (winner of Best Art Direction at the Barcelona International Film Festival, Punta del Este Festival and Action on Film Festival). Her television designs include “East Los High” for Hulu, “Five Points” for Facebook, “Sing It” for YouTube-Red, “Faking It” for MTV, “Blue” for Lifetime (nominee for an Art Directors Guild Award) and “Paloma” and “Video Game High School” for Lionsgate (2014 and 2015 Producers Guild Award nominations and a Streamy Award nomination for Best Production Design). Her commercial clients include Crayola, ADIDAS, Ray Ban, ESPN, Volkswagon, Marriott, DAQRI, Hewlett Packard, Turbo Tax, Wrigley’s, Gevalia, CVS, Soul, Pampers, L’Oreal, Schick, Taco Bell, Macaroni Grill and Getty Images. Her award-winning experiential design company, 3 PENNY DESIGN, has conceived and produced live events, brand activations, pop-ups and interiors for “The Emmys,” “The Golden Globe Awards,” VIDCON in Times Square and more. Myers received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and is a member of the Art Directors Guild, Local 800, and United Scenic Artists, Local 829. Additional samples of her work can be viewed at 3pennydesign.com and rachelmyersdesign.com.
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Scott Zielinsk (Lighting Design) has created designs for more than 300 productions in theatre, dance and opera throughout the world. He has worked extensively in New York (including Topdog/Underdog on Broadway) and at most regional theatres including Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Joseph Papp Public Theater, Lincoln Center Festival, Mark Taper Forum, New York Theatre Workshop and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His extensive work outside the U.S. includes theatre productions in Adelaide, Amsterdam, Avignon, Berlin, Bregenz, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Gennevilliers, Goteborg, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Linz, Ljubljana, London, Lyon, Melbourne, Orleans, Oslo, Ottawa, Paris, Reykjavik, Rotterdam, Rouen, St. Gallen, Seoul, Shanghai, Shizuoka, Singapore, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Vilnius and Zurich. His opera and dance highlights include productions for Opera Australia, Bregenzer Festspiele, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Colorado, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, National Changgeuk Opera of Korea, De Nederlandse Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera de Rouen Haute Normandie, Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Spoleto Festival, American Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival, Boston Ballet, Canada Dance Festival, Centre National de la Danse (Paris), Dance Theater Workshop, Houston Ballet, The Joyce, Kansas City Ballet, The Kennedy Center, National Ballet of Canada, Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet. Scottzielinski.com
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Peter Bayne (Original Music and Sound Design) returns to SCR, where he previously composed and sound-designed District Merchants, Office Hour and James and the Giant Peach. His other theatre credits include Center Theatre Group, A Noise Within, The Theatre @Boston Court, The Fountain Theatre (resident composer and sound designer), Antaeus Theatre Company, Rubicon Theatre Company, The Colony Theatre Company, The Actors’ Gang, Rogue Machine Theatre, Skylight Theatre Company, Theatre of Note and The Elephant Theatre Company. His other regional credits include American Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Portland Playhouse, Shakespeare and Company and Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Bayne is active as a composer in film and television. He produces dance music and performs as a multi-instrumentalist. He earned a BA in music from Vassar College and an MFA in composition and theory from Brandeis University. peterbayne.com
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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 A Doll’s House, Part 2 and 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. Sherry 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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