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18.Mar.2010 The Production Team for Becky’s New Car

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James Still Director
Over his 12 years as playwright-in-residence, IRT audiences have seen James’s plays The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Interpreting William, Iron Kisses, Looking over the President’s Shoulder (twice), The Gentleman from Indiana, Searching for Eden, He Held Me Grand, Amber Waves, And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank (twice), and The Secret History of the Future. James has also directed the IRT’s Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Bad Dates, Old Wicked Songs, Plaza Suite, The Immigrant, and Dinner with Friends, as well as his own Amber Waves and the world premiere of Looking over the President’s Shoulder in 2001. An award-winning writer for theatre, television, and film, James’s work has been produced throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. His other plays include The Velvet Rut, A Long Bridge over Deep Waters, A Village Fable, Hush: An Interview with America, and The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name). He was a producer and head writer for the series PAZ, head writer for Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear, and writer for the Bill Cosby series Little Bill. He wrote The Little Bear Movie and the feature film The Velocity of Gary. James is writing several new plays.

Kate Sutton-Johnson Scenic Designer
Kate designed the IRT’s production of Rabbit Hole last season. Based in Minneapolis, Kate designs extensively in the Twin Cities area as well as regional venues including the Weston Playhouse, Florida Stage, Riverside Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Park Square, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, and many others. In 2007, she received the Ivey Award for Emerging Artist in the Twin Cities. Kate grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and went on to study design at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she graduated in 2002.

Nan Zabriskie Costume Designer
As a member of USA Local #829, Nan has been designing costumes for theatres all over Chicagoland and beyond for 29 years. Her frequently Jeff-nominated costumes have been seen at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf, the Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Writer’s Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens, Pegasus Players, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance, River North Dance Co., Giordano’s Jazz Dance Theatre, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Welcome Yule 1994-present, Chicago Symphony Singers). From 1987 to 1998 Nan was co-artistic director and chief designer of the award-winning Chicago Children’s Theatre (25 shows). Nan works extensively in the stage makeup world where she designs makeups and prosthetics then trains actors to implement them. In this capacity she has worked with the Goodman Theatre (working with Brian Dennehy), Steppenwolf (John Mahoney), Time Line, Red Orchid (Michael Shannon),Writer’s Theatre, and Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company. Nan formed and runs the makeup program at the Theatre School of DePaul University where she has trained actors and designers in the art of stage makeup for 29 years. She recently founded Wigs and Hair Chicago, a professional program designed to train theatrical wigmakers. Nan teaches the program with Rick Jarvie, wigmaster of Lyric Opera.

Michael Lincoln Lighting Designer
Michael has designed more than 25 productions at the IRT, including the recent redesign of A Christmas Carol in its fourteenth year, as well as Rabbit Hole, The Piano Lesson, Old Wicked Songs, Arcadia, The Immigrant, Ah, Wilderness!, Dinner with Friends, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, Spunk, and Benefactors, among others. Highlights of his 30-year career include the Broadway productions of Copenhagen, More to Love, and Skylight, as well as Off-Broadway designs including Mr. Goldwyn, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Defying Gravity, Bunny Bunny, and Swingtime Canteen. He now heads the Production Design and Technology Program at the Ohio University School of Theater. www.michaellincoln.net

Todd Mack Reischman Sound Designer
Todd returns for his eighth season as resident sound designer here at the IRT. His original music was heard in last season’s Macbeth, This Wonderful Life, and To Kill a Mockingbird. He also recently composed the 37th season of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Todd owns LostSound recording studio where he creates original works. He occasionally still tries his hand as a playwright, actor, musician, and tri-athlete, and he is working to pioneer a new professional sport which combines auto racing and sport fishing.

Richard J Roberts Dramaturg
As dramaturg for 12 of his 20 seasons with the IRT, Richard provides research for the IRT’s productions and works with playwrights in the development of new plays. He has also been a dramaturg for the New Harmony Project and the Bonderman Symposium. He has directed the IRT’s productions of Pretty Fire, The Giver, The Power of One, and Twelfth Night. Other directing credits include the Phoenix Theatre, Edyvean Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Civic Theatre, and Anderson University. He was editor-in-chief of Arts Indiana magazine and has taught theatre courses at Butler University and IUPUI. He studied music at DePauw University and theatre at Indiana University. In 2003 he received a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

Nathan Garrison Stage Manager
This is Nathan’s 14th season at the IRT. He has also worked at Center Stage in Baltimore and at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. In 2005, he was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. This past summer, Nathan directed Much Ado about Nothing for HART in White River State Park.

Amy K. Denkmann Assistant Stage Manager
Amy has stage managed 12 productions here at the IRT. Her Broadway credits include Ah, Wilderness! (1998 Tony Award Nomination, Lincoln Center Theatre), Ivanov (Lincoln Center Theatre), The Rehearsal (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997 Tony Award Winner, Best Play), and Master Class (1996 Tony Award Winner, Best Play). She has also worked at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Music Center (Three Hotels and Smokey Joe’s Café), and the Actors Theatre of Indiana (My Way, Cole, and Forever Plaid). Amy holds a B.F.A. in stage management from the University of Southern California.