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Theater Works-NJ. Staff Designer - classical theatre and also worked as a
SubCulture NYC, monthly Jason Robert freelance journalist for The Guardian
Brown concerts. Purchase College Newspaper. She moved to Philadelphia
Alumn. www.zachpizzalighting.com in 2006 with her family and has
performed with many local companies,
Jeff Knapp (Sound Designer) is has most recently performing in the
been associated with Vivid Stage since Barrymore-nominated production of
The Neighborhood, working on most Perfect Blue. She was the founding
every mainstage production since. producing artistic director of Tiny
Favorite Vivid Stage designs include Dynamite, a theatre company in
The Other Place, 100 Years, The Philadelphia, and spent 7 years
Outgoing Tide, Shipwrecked, Dead and producing work and commissioning
Buried, and Every Brilliant Thing. Jeff is playwrights.
also the resident sound designer for Since 2017 she has been working as a
Shadowland Stages in Ellenville NY. playwright and her plays have been
He's worked at a bunch of small selected, developed, read or performed
theatres in the tri-state area and as far at The Pittsburgh Public Theatre,
south as Florida! Most recently, Jeff has PlayPenn, Philadelphia Women’s
designed multimedia and sound for
Shotstakovich and The Black Monk. Theatre Festival, Spooky Action Theatre
During the day, Jeff is owner of Jephens Company, DC, Miranda Theatre
Technologies, a small IT managed Company at The Cherry Lane, NYC, and
service provider, focusing on non- Vivid Stage NJ. She was recently
profits and small businesses. He thanks announced as the winner of The
his wife and kids for letting him miss Pittsburgh Public Theater’s inaugural
dinner while he's out making noise and new play competition and was selected
telling stories. for Panndora’s Box, a festival of new
plays by Panndora Productions in LA.
Danielle Pietrowski (Costume She has been a finalist and a semi-
Designer) has created, found and finalist for The O'Neill New Play
borrowed props for Vivid Stage’s What Conference (2021, 2020); a finalist for
Stays, Shakespeare in Vegas, Rx, The Kitchen Dog’s New Works Festival
How and the Why, and stage managed 2020; a finalist for the Henley Rose
The Neighborhood and The Other Place. New Play Competition 2021; a finalist
She has also worked with Writers for Headwaters at Creede Rep 2021; a
(Playwrights) Theatre of NJ, Centenary semi-finalist for Premiere Stages at
Stage Co., The Bickford, Passage
Theatre, NJ Rep, Luna Stage, The Keane 2020; a semi-finalist for Ashland
New Plays 2021 and The Bay Area
Growing Stage, Cape May Stage, Playwrights Festival 2021. Her Poetry
Shadowland Theatre, What Exit?, has been published by Willowdown
Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Premiere Books (Poems from the Lockdown) and
Stages, NJ Governor’s School of the Indolent Books (What Rough Beast).
Arts and Women’s Theater Company. Thank you to my daughter Blake (in
Emma Gibson (playwright) is a British Spain) & Rachel (In New Orleans) for
theatre-maker, now living in their support from afar. And to my son-
Philadelphia. In the UK she worked as in-law Manny for teaching me how
an actress in both new writing and ridiculous everything is!