Stage Manager
Sophomore from Algonquin, Ill.
Saint Mary's: DRC, Stage Manager; Songs for a New World, Assistant Stage Manager; Measure for Measure, Fly crew; The Glass Menagerie, Assistant Stage Manager
Scenic Designer and Technical Director
Education: Minnesota State University - Moorhead (B.A. in Theatre Arts);
University of Wisconsin - Madison (M.F.A. in Scenic Design)
Saint Mary’s: Measure for Measure, The Glass Menagerie, Significant Other, Songs for a New World, The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte, She Loves Me, The Lady from the Sea, Romeo and Juliet, Proof, She Stoops to Conquer, Glengarry Glen Ross, SPLaSH! 2018, and A Grand Night for Singing.
Elsewhere (selected): Avenue Q, Tartuffe, Lady Windermere’s Fan for University of Mary Washington; Cloud 9, Ti Jean and His Brothers, The Cradle Will Rock for University of Wisconsin-Madison; Next to Normal for Heartland Festival in Platteville, Wis.; New Brain, Rumpelstiltskin at Minnesota State University - Moorhead; Odd Couple, Chicago for Straw Hat Players in Moorhead, Minn.
Costume Designer and Costume Shop Manager
Education: University of Washington in Seattle (M.F.A. in Costume Design)
Saint Mary’s: She Loves Me, Measure for Measure, The Glass Menagerie, Significant Other, Songs for a New World,The Lady from the Sea, Romeo and Juliet,Proof, A Grand Night for Singing, She Stoops to Conquer, and Glengarry
Glen Ross
Elsewhere (selected): Murder Mystery at the MMAM (2018), Peter Pan, Shakespeare’s Henry IV pt. I and II, ‘Master Harold... and the Boys’, Little Shop of Horrors, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening (greater Seattle area between 2012 and 2016).
Currently: teaching Stage Makeup, Stage Craft Costume Lab, Graduation Projects, and Assistant Costume Design.
Shop Foreman, Master Carpenter
Theatre credits date back to Touring Technical Director for the Indiana Repertory Theatre in 1972! Since studying technical theatre back when the earth was still cooling, and Wildlife Science (Purdue University, 1976) he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Cameroon, W. Africa, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. John is an ordained (and retired) Lutheran pastor (1985), and has returned to work in theatre here at Saint Mary’s since 2015. Summers, you will find him working as a Park Ranger for the State of Wisconsin.
John’s chief responsibilities not only include building our sets, but helping students learn how to build without serious injury.
Assistant Director
Senior from McHenry, Ill.
Saint Mary's: Songs for a New World, Assistant Director; The Glass Menagerie, Assistant Director.
Sound Designer
Junior from Saint Paul, Minn.
Saint Mary's: 9 to 5: The Musical (Sound Effects Designer,) The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Sound Board Op,) The Stoppard Project (Assistant Master Electrician), Measure for Measure (Sound Designer)
Lighting Designer
Currently living in Antarctica, Jason has designed this show completely from Zoom.
A beer aficionado, Jason loves to also raise helper monkeys.
Assistant Lighting Designer
Senior from Dallas, Texas
Saint Mary's: DRC, Lighting Designer; Songs for a New World, Scenic charge artist; SPLaSH 2020, Lighting Designer; The Lady from the Sea, Master Electrician
Projections
Senior from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Previous production experience includes Significant Other; Helene; SMUMN, The Knight of the Burning Pestle; Venturewell and others; SMUMN, The Nutcracker; Nanny; SMUMN. After graduating this spring, Bre will begin the Masters program for Education and pursuing a teaching license in Theatre, Speech, and English.
Props Master
Freshman from Williamsport, Pa.
Elsewhere: Lockdown, Bye Bye Birdie, What Do You Do When The Elves Have The Flu?; Spamalot: Dancing at Lughnasa, Frozen Jr; Calendar Girls
Choreographer
Junior from Aurora, Colo.
Saint Mary's: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Wardrobe crew; 9 to 5: The Musical, Josh/Ensemble; Measure for Measure, Gentleman 1/Friar John/Friar Peter; Significant Other, Jordan Berman.
Choreographer
Senior from Elkhorn, Wis.
Saint Mary's: Romeo & Juliet, Romeo; She Loves Me, Stephen Kodaly; The Real Inspector Hound, Simon Gascoyne; After Magritte, Reginald William Harris; 9 to 5:The Musical, Franklin Hart Jr.; Measure for Measure, Angelo; Significant Other, Tony, Conrad, & Will; Songs for a New World, Man 2
Elsewhere: River City Players, Northeastern State University
Choreographer/Dance Captain
Senior from Ashland, Wis.
Saint Mary's: Measure for Measure, Isabella; The Nutcracker, Soldier.
Choreographer/Dance Captain
Senior from Querétaro, México
Saint Mary's: Measure for Measure, Mariana; The Nutcracker, Rat Queen; DRC; Significant Other, Choreographer; The Glass Menagerie, Choreographer; After Magritte, Choreographer
*Graduation Project
+Member of Alpha Psi Omega