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Seattle Rep, New Harmony Theatre, The designs for The Rice Players: The Altruists. Theatre - Montgomery: Into the Woods; White Girls (short), The Bake Sale (short);
Cherry Lane, Dobama, Grex, Cleveland University of Houston Moores Opera, 15 Lonestar Theatre - Kingwood: Little Misnomers: (Director) Glen or Glenda
Public, Intiman Theatre, Brave New seasons including; Manon; The Elixir of Women: The Musical, Picasso at the Lapin (reading); Rice Players: (Director) The
Works (Atlanta), and The Playwrights Love; Tales of Hoffman; Il Agile; Texas Repertory Theatre: A…My Glass Menagerie. Film / TV: (Director) “Trial
Center. A passionate advocate of new Name is Alice, The All Night Strut; Island Three Seven”, “BLUE” (2018),”eumenides”
work, and work by women, Leslie is the STEFÄN D. AZIZI (Scenic Designer) is ETC: The Who’s Tommy; Regional: Kansas (Cannes Film Festival, 2013); Education:
Executive Director of the Susan Smith the Managing Director and Resident City Rep: Welcome to Fear City, Unreliable; B.F.A., Sam Houston State University,
Blackburn Prize, the oldest and largest Scenic Designer at Rec Room Arts. Rec Unicorn Theatre: The Wolves; The Coterie: Theatre – Acting\Directing. Instagram: @
international prize specifically recognizing Room credits include: Scenic Design for The Secret of Courage; Wimberly Players: currentlymouserat
women playwrights. Leslie also founded Appropriate, Pass Over, The Children, Catch Me If You Can; Southwestern CHRISTINA GIANNELLI (Lighting Designer)
the Women Playwright’s Festival in and Woyzeck; Production Design (Scenic University: The Wolves; Film: TAF - Los Stages: Swimming While Drowning, Four
Seattle at A Contemporary Theatre and and Lighting) for The Royal, On The Angeles: The Job. L.A. is based in NYC and Places, Veronica’s Room, End of the
Hedgebrook. Opera companies include the Exhale, Exit Strategy, Hansel & Gretel received her MFA in Costume Design and Rainbow, The Search For Signs of Intelligent
San Francisco Opera, Washington National (2017 & 2018) and Sender. He graduated Technology from University of Missouri - Life…, Character Man, Five Course Love,
Opera at the Kennedy Center, Vancouver with departmental honors from The Kansas City. www.laclevensondesign.com Replica (Houston Press best Lighting
Opera, Opera Carolina, Seattle Opera, Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster 2018). Other Houston theater credits -
Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, University in Scene Design and Technical PETER TON (Assistant Director/Sound Fourth Wall Theatre Company: St. Joan,
Madison Opera, Dayton Opera, Opera in Direction. He worked throughout Saint Designer/Videographer/Editor) is a theatre Cry Havoc, Lobby Hero, Jesus Hopped The
the Heights, Opera på Skäret in Sweden. Louis for The MUNY, The Repertory director\designer and filmmaker from A Train; Queensbury Theatre: Striking 12,
Also an educator, Leslie has taught theatre Theater of Saint Louis, Opera Theatre Houston, Texas. He is excited to return with Unlock’d; TUTS: Murder Ballad, Hands on a
(directing, stage movement, theatre history, of Saint Louis, St. Louis Shakespeare his twelfth production at Stages and his Hard Body, LMNOP, Bonnie & Clyde, Sweet
playwriting and theatre management) at Festival, The New Jewish Theater, and seventh project with Leslie Swackhamer! Potato Queens, James and the Giant Peach,
the University of Washington, University Variety Children’s Theatre in a variety of Stages: NSFW (Assistant Director\Sound First Date, The Rocky Horror Show, Striking
of Texas (Austin), Cornish College of the roles from Technical Direction to Associate Designer), Panto Star Force (Assistant 12, Once On This Island, Pippin; Mercury:
Arts, Rice University, University of Houston Scene Design. After leaving St. Louis he Projection Designer), Swimming While The Scarlet Prince, Loving Clara Schuman;
and Sam Houston State University. MFA became the Technical Director at Casa Drowning (Sound\Video Designer), We Are Da Camera: Saute Ma Vie; Past Resident
in Directing, University of Washington Mañana for two seasons and collecting Proud to Present… (Sound\Video Designer) Lighting Designer: Houston Grand Opera,
School of Drama. Member of the design credits on Big Fish and Godspell. Alma en Venta (Video Designer), My Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, Memphis Ballet,
professional unions AGMA and SDC. www. Additionally, he Is the Project Manager for Mañana Comes (Assistant Director\Sound Texas Ballet Theater, Houston Ballet, The
leslieswackhamer.com Caspian Enterprises currently working on Designer), Straight White Men (Assistant Metropolitan Opera. She is the founder
the renovation of a historic gothic revival Director\Sound & Video Designer), Miss of Dance Source Houston, a service
JODI BOBROVSKY (Properties Designer) church into The Sanctuary Lofts. Teen (Sound Designer), The Elaborate organization that supports and promotes
has been a staff designer at Stages for 20 Entrance of Chad Deity (Video Designer), Contemporary Dance in Houston. She is
seasons. Favorite scenic/properties designs L.A. CLEVENSON (Costume Designer) Marie Antoinette (Assistant Director), Mack also a proprietor of a guesthouse for visiting
include: Yankee Tavern, A Picasso, An Stages: Girls Night: The Musical, Gidion’s and Mabel (Assistant Projection Designer); artists located in EaDo.
Infinite Ache, Black Pearl Sings, Anton in Knot, Panto Sleeping Beauty Jr.; Main Street Alley Theatre: The Carpenter (Assistant JAMIE L. CEGELSKI (Production Stage
Show Business, Elizabeth Rex, and The Theatre: Working, Putting It Together; Director); Main Street Theater: (Projection Manager) Stages: Panto Hansel & Gretel
Whipping Man, which won the Houston Catastrophic Theatre: clean/through; Designer) The Cat in the Hat, Schoolhouse (Production Stage Manager), Salt Root and
Press 2014 Best Scenic Design award. 4th Wall Theatre Company: Stage Kiss, Rock Live!, Daisy, Junie B. Jones is Not Roe (Calling Stage Manager), The Doyle and
Playwright: Panto Rapunzel and Zombies, The God Game, Faith Healer, The Good a Crook, The Wizard of Oz, Copenhagen, Debbie Show (Production Stage Manager)
Panto Snow Queen. Recent freelance Thief, Ho Ho Humbug, Ho Ho Humbug Bunnicula, Mockingbird, RFK, Red-Hot NSFW (Production Stage Manager), Panto
designs in Houston include scenic designs 2.0; Classical Theatre Company: A Doll’s Patriot; (Projection Engineer) Shrek, the Star Force (Assistant Stage Manager), Ring
for Opera in the Heights: Peter Brook’s House; Mildred’s Umbrella: Becky’s New Musical, Silent Sky; Horse Head Theatre of Fire (Deck Crew), The Great American
The Tragedy of Carmen, and The Medium. Car, Pollywog, Foxfinder; SRO Productions: Company: (Sound\Video Designer) The Trailer Park Musical (Show Control),
Scenic design for Mildred’s Umbrella: The American Idiot; Landing Theatre Company: Flick; The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise; Replica (Deck Crew), Ann (Deck Crew),
4th Wall Theatre Company: The Glass
Drowning Girls, Red Death. Stark Naked 10 Ways on a Gun; Opera in the Heights: Menagerie (Projection Designer), Reckless Shear Madness (Deck Crew); Alley Theatre:
Theater: Small Mouth Sounds, Stage Tosca, Carmen, I Pagliacci; HITS Theatre: (Video Designer); Gravity Players: The Last Constellations (Deck Crew), Twelfth Night
Kiss. Main Street Theater: Dog Act, Time Anything Goes, Hairspray Jr., The Drowsy Days of Judas Iscariot (Video Designer); (Deck Crew); Cedar Point: Midnight
Stands Still, Coast of Utopia. Properties Chaperone, Shrek: The Musical; Lonestar Mildred’s Umbrella: (Director) Pretty Little Syndicate Live! (Stage Crew); The Santa Fe