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,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.
Currently: Instructor of Stage Craft and Lab, Introduction to Visual
Communication for Theatre, Scenic Design, Career Development, Tech Lab
I/II, and Production lab I/II.
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, 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.
Media Designer
Education: MFA in Theatrical Design and Production
Saint Mary’s: Francis and Clare
Elsewhere: Damn Yankees at Orday. 33 Variations, Words By…Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook, Sherlock and the Adventures of the Suicide Club, Ragtime at Park Square. The Glass Menagerie, Footloose at Lyric Arts. Return to the Forbidden Planet at Chameleon Theatre Circle. Translations, She Kills Monsters, Oh What a Lovely War. at St. Olaf College.
Scenic design: Frank Theatre: Eclipsed; Commonweal Theatre Co: Little Shop of Horrors, The Odd Couple; MN Shakespeare Project: King Lear; Cincinnati Shakespeare Co: Macbeth, The Weir. Sound Design: MN Jewish Theatre Company: Our Class.
Currently: Todd is a Designer and the Technical Director at St. Olaf College. He is working on ways to include virtual and augmented reality and other mediated cool stuff into live performance. His work can be viewed here...https://tfedwards.wixsite.com/designbytoddfedwards
Sound Engineer
Education
B.A. in Recreation Administration from the University of Wisconsin (La Crosse)
Saint Mary’s; Sound Designer/Engineer for 9 to 5 The Musical, She Loves Me, A Grand Night for Singing, Next to Normal, Working, Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, and Putnam County Spelling Bee, and several Candlelight Dinner Productions.
Elsewhere (selected); Recording Engineer for La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, various Pumphouse Productions, and many other live venues; mastered and mixed Grammy Award-winning recordings (2005 and 2009) as well as many world-class and local musicians.
Currently; Founder/Owner/Operator of Sound Strations - Audio Productions, Inc.; Instructor for Introduction to Sound Recording, Advanced Audio Post-Production and Sound, Advanced Applications of Recording and Audio Production, Fundamentals of Live Audio Production, and Audio Production Internship.
Lighting Designer
Senior from Evergreen Park, IL
Billy Scannell has provided the lighting design for SPLaSH! 2020, Salvation Road, and DRC: Classically Speaking at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. In addition, he has also designed projections at Saint Mary's for 9 to 5 The Musical, SPLaSH! 2018, and A Grand Night for Singing.
Billy has also been an electrician at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, on their production of The Things I Hold.
Rehearsal Pianist, Pianist
Education: B.S. in Business and B.A. in Music from Winona State University
Saint Mary’s University of MN: 9 to 5: The Musical, She Loves Me, and A Grand Night for Singing
Other: Over the past 35 years, Sandy has provided piano accompaniment for 77 shows (55 different musicals) including 11 for Winona State University, 13 for Home and Community Options, and 30 for Winona Senior High School.
Currently: Sandy is Controller for the Diocese of Winona-Rochester. She has also been Organist at the First Congregational Church of Winona for 37 years.
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 St. 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.
Stage Manager
Senior from Maplewood, MN.
Saint Mary's: Stage Manager for Proof, Salvation Road (London Debut); Production Manager for SPLaSH! 2020 vision; Assistant Production Manager for SPLaSH!; Assistant Stage Manager for DRC Cinderella, DRC II, Nina in The Morning; Assistant Scenic Designer for She Loves Me, Measure For Measure; Scenic Charge Artist for The Glass Menagerie; Props Head for Glengarry Glen Ross, Romeo and Juliet; Run Crew for She Stoops To Conquer; Dresser for Grand Night For Signing; Light Board Operator for The Lady from the Sea, DRC: The Nutcracker; Sound Board Operator for DRC: Classically Speaking; Fly Crew Head for 9 To 5 The Musical
Assistant Director
Junior from McHenry, IL.
Saint Mary's: Assistant Director for The Glass Menagerie; Stage Manager for Switched at Death for SPLaSH! 2020; Stage Manager for After Magritte at SMUMN.
Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for Daddy Long Legs and Shout! at Northern Fort Playhouse.
Choreographer
Senior from Cottage Grove, MN
Saint Mary's: Measure for Measure-Escalus; 9 to 5 The Musical-Dance Captain; Salvation Road-Sister Jean; She Loves Me-Ensemble; Romeo and Juliet-Nurse.