Production

C Andrew Mayer is a Minneapolis-based sound and projections designer who has worked extensively at theatres across the Twin Cities and elsewhere, including Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, ACT in San Francisco, Arkansas Rep in Little Rock, and 59E59 in NYC, where he won an Audelco Award for his design for Carlyle Brown’s Pure Confidence. He has designed operas for Minnesota Opera, Opera Philadelphia and Opera Colorado, where he recently remounted his world premiere design for Stephen King’s The Shining. He was a 2008 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow, and in summer serves as the Producing Director for the Acadia Repertory Theatre on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

Tom has been Technical Director, guest designer and instructor at Macalester since 1990.  He has worked throughout the Twin Cities as a scenic and lighting designer and technical director.

This is Francesca Barroso's second time designing costumes for a mainstage production at Macalester College. He had lots of fun playing with shapes and colors throughout the process of making this piece!

Nora Bower (she/her) is a senior at Macalester majoring in Gender Studies and minoring in American Studies and Performance and Design Technologies. Her previous scenic and properties design work includes Holmes & Watson, 39 Steps, and Greetings from the Edge of the Anthropocene at Macalester and Hadestown: Teen Edition at Children's Theatre Company.

Brian Fox (He/Him) has been Technical Assistant at Macalester since 2018, with a few pandemic inspired breaks. He got his start building sets with the Montana Shakespeare Company, and worked in the Scene Shop as a Macalester student, contributing in varying capacities to show in the old building such as The Glass Menagerie and As You Like It. Highlights of his work include a large curved staircase in The Rocky Horror Show, a rolling staircase in Angels in America, and a slide in Thunderbodies.

Jace (he/they) is a senior Linguistics major, with minors in CompSci and Theater Tech. He has Stage Managed and Assistant Stage Managed several shows in the Theater Department, as well as various crew and design positions. He works in the scene shop and as a department Production Assistant, and probably spends more time in the THDA Green Room than his own living room.

I am a sophomore at Macalester College majoring in Psychology, and I plan to minor in Theater and Dance. I have taken theater design courses at Macalester, and I am excited to gain more hands-on experience through my work with the wardrobe crew. I would like to thank the THDA department and everyone who has supported me for this opportunity.

This is Faunus's (any pronouns) fourth show at Macalester and first designing props. They are very excited to have this opportunity to try out designing. They would like to thank Tom Barrett for helping get them into this and supporting them through the process.

Aether (they/them) is a first year intending to major in Biology and minor in Performance Design and Technologies. Theatrical lighting is their favorite aspect of tech, and thus they are thrilled to be running lights for their first production at Macalester.

Gabi is a Religious Studies Major and Performance Design and Tech Minor. It is his first time  working on a theater production, but he is very happy to be the assistant sound designer for The Laramie Project, and hopes to continue working in sound design.

Stacey is a theatrical costume and scenic designer who specializes in musicals, children’s productions, and educational theater. Her passion is collaborating with artists and creating work that has the capability of initiating positive change. With each production, she is dedicated to digging deep into the symbolism of the play and finding ways to incorporate the text into her design work. Stacey’s costume and scenic design has been seen on the stages of Journey North Opera Company, Children’s Theatre Company, Sod House Theater, Lakeshore Players, Theater Mu, Guthrie Theater, Daleko Arts, Steppingstone Theatre, Carleton College, The Haunted Basement, Eat Street Players, Stages Theatre, Anoka Ramsey Community College, and the University of Minnesota. Stacey has a B.S in Apparel Design with a minor in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Scenic and Costume Design with a minor in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota.

Sam is a junior from Millcreek City, Utah, and is beyond excited for her first debut as an Assistant Stage Manager at Macalester. Sam is majoring in Theatre, minoring in Japanese Language & Culture, and currently working in the Scene Shop as a carpenter. She would like to thank her professors at Mac for helping her fall more and more in love with all aspects of the theater, her friends for sticking by her, and her family for always being there no matter what.

A Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright who received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2016. Broadway credits include Paradise Square (10 Tony Award nominations), Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (wrote and directed, Tony nomination Best Play), and Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award). Other productions include: Pulitzer Prize finalist Here There Are Blueberries, Velour: A Drag Spectacular, Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard and Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award). He is the co-writer of The Laramie Project and the writer of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. He’s an Obie and Drama Desk award winner and a Guggenheim fellow.

Was the Head Writer of The Laramie Project and has been a member of Tectonic Theatre Project since 1995. She is an Emmy-nominated co-screenwriter for the adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO. Her work The People’s Temple has been performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Perseverance Theater, American Theater Company and The Guthrie Theater and additionally received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005. Another original play, I Think I Like Girls, premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco under her direction and was voted one of the top ten plays of 2002 by The Advocate. Other directing credits include: Gerda’s Lieutenant by Ellen Greeves and Bennett Singer (Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts), Three Seconds in the Key by Deb Margolin (San Francisco Playhouse), The Laramie Project (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theater) and La Voix Humaine by Jean Cocteau (Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh). Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights and has developed a play about 19th century actress Charlotte Cushman with About Face Theatre and Tectonic Theater Project. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Masters in Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University.

is a nonprofit theatre dedicated to exploring theatrical language and form and was established in 1991. Its first production, Women in Beckett, was a collection of all of Samuel Beckett’s short plays for women performed by a cast aged 65 to 80. Tectonic has produced works by emerging playwrights such as Naomi Iizuka (Coxinga and Marlowe’s Eye); stage classics such as Beckett’s Endgame and Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal; and a highly-acclaimed production of Franz Xaver Kroetz’ The Nest. With its hyper-real diorama of a set and its imaginative use of puppetry (brought to life by acclaimed puppeteer Basil Twist), The Nest was named one of the ten best productions of the 1994/95 season by The Village Voice.

Tectonic dedicated two years to the development of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, a play written and directed by Artistic Director Moisés Kaufman. The play became a popular and critical sensation when it began in New York in the end of February 1997. Gross Indecency transferred to off-Broadway and ran there for over 18 months. Tectonic’s production was later mounted by Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, enjoyed a six-month run at Theater on the Square in San Francisco, and had successful productions in Toronto, Plymouth and in London’s West End. The play has also been produced by over 40 regional theatres and internationally in Paris, Stockholm, Montreal, Mexico City, Budapest and Germany. Gross Indecency won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best off-Broadway Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Garland Award for Best Play (Los Angeles), the Caldwell Award (Florida) and the GLAAD Media Award for New York Theater. Mr. Kaufman received the 1997 Joe A. Callaway Award for Excellence in Direction given by the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers as well as the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for directing this work. The Vintage publication of Gross Indecency won the Lambda Book Award.

Tectonic Theater Project received an Outer Critics Circle Award as the original producers of the play. Tectonic Theater Project’s development of The Laramie Project was made possible in part by the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sullivan Foundation, the Sundance Theatre Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Leon Levy, Anne Milliken and Gayle Francis. Tectonic Theater Project also receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Development of Cultural Affairs.