Burke Brown (Lighting Designer) Recent designs include: The Brothers Size (NYSF-Public Theater, NYC; The Studio Theatre, DC; The Abbey Theater, Dublin); Going Down Swingin' (NY Musical Theater Festival), L'Orfeo (Yale Baroque Opera Project), The Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting (Mabou Mines, Associate Designer); Lulu (Yale Rep); John Selya's La Voix and Tweaker (Joyce Soho); Aszure Barton's A Traveling Show (Baryshnikov Arts Center); Greta Gertler (Joe's Pub). Mr. Brown is the 2008 Artist in Residence for Lighting Design for Ars Nova. He is a member of Wingspace, (www.wingspace.com). BA, Guilford College. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
Brian Farish has also worked Off-Broadway in Flanagan's Wake at SoHo Playhouse, Off-off at Storm Theatre's Karol Woytyla Festival and in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Regionally: American Repertory Theatre (Boston), The Noble Fool (Chicago), Light Opera Oklahoma (Tulsa), and internationally at the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre (Russia). M.F.A. Acting from American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute at Harvard. Brian is also a Certified Personal Trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine and Equinox Fitness.
Laura Jensen is a the Associate Artistic Director of Bone Orchard and performed with the ensemble in 'day lights the bone' on the Hudson River and co-directed and performed in Bone Orchard's The Immediate Present. This year she performed with Nature Theater of Oklahoma at the Public Theater and Working Man's Clothes at the Ohio Theater. She has also worked with The New Victory Theater, New World Theater and the KO Festival. Training: Amherst College, UMASS and Michael Howard Studios.
Anna Jones is the Artistic Director and Founder of Bone Orchard. She directed Bone Orchard's inaugural piece, day lights the bone at Red Shade Plaza in July 2007, and earlier this year, with Laura Jensen, directed Bone Orchard’s first full length work, The Immediate Present, a piece which the company devised from contemporary sources and in response to the old coffin factory it was performed in. After reading English at Cambridge University, Anna received her MFA in directing at the Yale School of Drama, directing over ten productions there, including Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life, her thesis production. Since then she has worked in Orvieto, Italy with La Compagnia di Colombari, and in New York, where her credits include directing Anne Carson's translation of Sophocles' Electra (Stella Adler/NYU) and assistant directing Bob Glaudini's Jack Goes Boating at The Public Theater.
Roweena Mackay is the resident dramaturg for Bone Orchard. Past productions include: Phaedra's Love (Yale Cabaret), Radio Golf (Yale Repertory Theatre), Two September (The Flea), Hamlet (Gorilla Repertory Theatre), Trigger Happy Jack (HERE Arts Center). She is an artistic programs associate at Theatre Communications Group and an artistic associate for the African American Playwright's Exchange. She received her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of New Mexico and her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.
Sharath Patel is a New York City based sound designer, having earned an MFA in Sound Design from the Yale University School of Drama and a BFA in Production Design and Technology from the Ohio University School of Theater. At Yale University Patel designed shows for Yale Repertory Theater, School of Drama, Cabaret, and Summer Cabaret. Patel’s professional experience included work with New York Stage and Film, as the assistant sound supervisor, and The International Festival of Arts and Ideas, as an audio technician.
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Maggie Surovell has performed Off-Broadway at The Public Theatre in principle roles for Under the Radar and Susan Lori Parks 365 Festivals, and in Cherry Lane Theatre’s Cherry Pit Late Nite. She has performed Off-Off Broadway with Les Freres Corbusier, Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, The International WOW Theatre Company, and with Roust/New Moon Repertory. Maggie’s one-woman show WARNING SIGNS has toured all over New York City and at regional theatres. She is an Assistant Fitzmaurice voice teacher and teaches speech and dialects to the MFA Actors at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Training: MFA in Acting from University of Georgia and BA in Theatre from Temple University.
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