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WHO’S WHO

SETH GORDON (Director) is thrilled to Kiss. Main Street Theater: Dog Act, Time
return to Stages for his eighth production. Stands Still, Coast of Utopia. Properties
He is in his second year as Director of designs for The Rice Players: The Altruists.
the Helmerich School of Drama at the University of Houston Moores Opera, 15
University of Oklahoma. Previously, he seasons including; Manon; The Elixir of
served as Associate Artistic Director at Love; Tales of Hoffman; Il
the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and STEFÄN D. AZIZI (Scenic Designer) is
the Cleveland Play House, and Associate the Managing Director and Resident
Producer at Primary Stages in New York. Scenic Designer at Rec Room Arts. Rec
In St. Louis, he created Ignite!, a new play Room credits include: Scenic Design for
festival; at the Cleveland Play House, he Appropriate, Pass Over, The Children,
created FusionFest, a multi-disciplinary and Woyzeck; Production Design (Scenic
arts festival that had a new play festival and Lighting) for The Royal, On The
in it; and at Primary Stages, he created Exhale, Exit Strategy, Hansel & Gretel
the New American Writers Group. In (2017 & 2018) and Sender. He graduated
addition to Stages, he has directed plays with departmental honors from The
at these three theatres, TheatreSquared Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster
in Fayetteville, AK, Shakespeare and
Company in Massachusetts, Syracuse University in Scene Design and Technical
Direction. He worked throughout Saint
Stage, the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival,
the St. Lou Fringe Festival, Studio Arena Louis for The MUNY, The Repertory
Theatre in Buffalo, American Stage in Theater of Saint Louis, Opera Theatre
Florida, and in New York, at Ensemble of Saint Louis, St. Louis Shakespeare
Studio Theatre, Theatre of the New City, Festival, The New Jewish Theater, and
and countless other places. He directed Variety Children’s Theatre in a variety of
the Arabic premiere of Our Town in Cairo. roles from Technical Direction to Associate
He received the 2004 and 2006 Northern Scene Design. After leaving St. Louis he
Ohio Live award, the 2014 Houston became the Technical Director at Casa
Theatre Award, and numerous nominations Mañana for two seasons and collecting
by the Houston Theatre Awards and the design credits on Big Fish and Godspell.
St. Louis Theatre Critics Circle Awards for Additionally, he Is the Project Manager for
his direction. He considers himself a lucky Caspian Enterprises currently working on
man. the renovation of a historic gothic revival
church into The Sanctuary Lofts.
JODI BOBROVSKY (Properties Designer)
has been a staff designer at Stages for 20
seasons. Favorite scenic/properties designs
include: Yankee Tavern, A Picasso, An
Infinite Ache, Black Pearl Sings, Anton in
Show Business, Elizabeth Rex, and The
Whipping Man, which won the Houston
Press 2014 Best Scenic Design award.
Playwright: Panto Rapunzel and Zombies,
Panto Snow Queen. Recent freelance
designs in Houston include scenic designs
for Opera in the Heights: Peter Brook’s
The Tragedy of Carmen, and The Medium.
Scenic design for Mildred’s Umbrella: The
Drowning Girls, Red Death. Stark Naked
Theater: Small Mouth Sounds, Stage