Production Team
Please welcome our talented production team:
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Tim Payton - Tech Director & Set Designer
Tim is a scenic designer and a stagecraft artist, as well as an actor and director. He graduated with a degree in Theater Arts from Concordia University in 2016, but has been active in the Twin Cities theater community for over twenty years. He has enjoyed being the set designer and technical director at Central for the past several years and looks forward to working on the Clue set and with the student crew. Other theatre companies he has worked with include: Lex-Ham, Youth Artist Initiative, the Minnesota Jewish Theater Company, Lakeshore Players, Merrill Arts Center, Shakespeare & Company, and Pigs Eye Theater Company.
Phoebe Poole - Costumer
Phoebe is a freelance fashion and costume designer as well as a project manager for Mello Smello. She received a BFA in Fashion Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Locally, she has worked with Ballet Co. Laboratory as costume manager on their productions of The Snow Queen, Firebird, An American in Paris, Laboratory II, Freddie - Break Free, and Carmen. This is Phoebe's second production with Central High School, having worked on last fall's The Little Mermaid.
Terri Ristow - Props Master
Terri is excited to return to Central High School for Clue. She has worked in the pharmaceutical research and medical device industries, as a head election judge, and a freelance artist/prop designer. Terri has created props and set dressing for many local theatres including Park Square, Wayward, Theatre in the Round, and Dangerous Productions. Her favorite projects have been designing & building haunted house rooms, and Art in Bloom at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Chris Macgowan - Sound Advisor
Chris is a software engineer, filmmaker, sound engineer, educator and co-founder of Gstream. He received a BS in Electronics Engineering Technology from Minnesota State University, Mankato and studied film production at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Chris has been working with Eliza Rasheed and the Theater Department at Global Arts Plus in St. Paul since 2013, providing sound design support with a focus on education. He has worked on the Central productions of The Addams Family and The Little Mermaid.