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JEFF ELLIS
(Assistant Technical Director) is a New England native and holds a BFA
in International Theatre Production from Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. He
was with Monomoy Theatre in 2010 as Master Carpenter and works locally as
carpenter and electrician for Merrimack Repertory Theatre, BeNT Productions, and
other companies throughout the area during the regular season. He is excited to be
back at Monomoy for 2013 as Assistant Technical Director.
SUZI GARDINER
born in Miami, Florida grew up watching videos from Broadway
musicals. While she took classical and jazz piano for over ten years, her real love has been
singing and dancing. While at The Asheville School in North Carolina, she was jazz
vocalist in a professional jazz band. She attends Elon University, where she is a member
of various vocal groups, but her major is fine arts administration and expects to graduate
in December.
JOHN GEDEON, Jr.
(Technical Director) graduated from Ohio University with a BFA in
Technical Direction in 2009. He had the privilege of being the technical director for the
Monomoy Theatre in 2009, 2012, and is thrilled to return for the 2013 season. He comes
to Chatham this summer from the heart of Chicago's North Shore where he is the
technical director for Writer's Theatre which has been a Chicagoland cultural destination
for the last 20 years.
AURORA E. HELD
(Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be returning to Monomoy
this year and was a member of the company in 2011. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA
in Directing at Ohio University where she directed All This Intimacy and My Attic Wife
(workshop production). With a diverse background in dance and theater, she has been
onstage and off and now enjoys working behind the scenes. Favorite credits include: The
Threepenny Opera, 42nd. Street, RENT
, and Man of La Mancha.
HEATHER JESSUP
(Costume Designer) is very pleased to make her costume design
debut at Monomoy Theatre! Her design credits include Reverse Psychology, Funny
Money, On Broadway: 1956, August: Osage County, The Merry Wives of Windsor
(opera), and As It Is In Heaven. In addition to her design credits, she also worked in
the wardrobe department for the Maltz-Jupiter Theatre (LORT) and the Santa Fe
Opera. She graduated with an MFA in costume design from UNCSA in May.
ANTHONY KOCHENSPARGER
(Box Office Manager) is the author of the plays Kids
and My Attic Wife, which both received workshop productions at Ohio University,
where he is a class away from earning his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Playwriting, under
the instruction of Erik Ramsey. He is currently working on a series of one-act plays,
all written for performance in New York, where he plans to move in the coming year.
MICHAEL LEBRON
(Technician) originates from Gary Indiana, but spent his teens
living in Wilmington NC, where he developed his love for the theatrical arts. This led
to the theatre program at East Carolina University in Greenville NC., where he just
completed his sophomore year as a design and production student with a
concentration in scenic carpentry. This season they produced the shows Crimes of the
Heart, Cabaret, The Drowsy Chaperone,
and The Furies.
BRAD CALEB LEE
(Scenic Designer) is from Wilsonville, AL and a second year MFA
Candidate in Scenic Design at The University of Alabama and in August will begin a
year of study at The Royal Welsh College of a Music & Drama in Cardiff, Wales. In his
second season at Monomoy, he is designing The King & I, Hay Fever, Death of a
Salesman,
and Arsenic & Old Lace with previous designs including The Crucible,
Cabaret, Harvey,
and Wait Until Dark. Other design credits include Fefu & Her
Friends, Fools, Misalliance, The Mikado, The Raven's Revenge,
and The Beautiful
Bridegroom
at The University of Alabama and I Hate Hamlet at Theatre Tuscaloosa.
2013
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