STEPHANIE NELSON (Scenic Designer) is pleased to have this opportunity to collaborate with Court Theatre. Stephanie has designed sets for Redmoon Theater’s Unbinding Isaac (Jeff Citation), Saloa, Nina, and Seagull (Jeff Citation) and Salao, and co-directed with Ann Boyd on two performances (2001 Winter Pageant and 1999 Hallow’s Eve Fire Installation). Additional scenic design credits include Richard Maxwell’s Henry IV Part 1, Boxing 2000 and Caveman in New York, and the touring Dutch production of Barmhartige Samaritanen, Steppenwolf Theatre’s No Place Like Home, World Set Free and The Water Engine, A Red Orchid Theater’s The Physicists, The Persecution of Arnold Petch, and The Cut (1999 Jeff Design Award), Seanachai’s Marked Tree (2000 After Dark Design Award), and Tosca with CCTD. Stephanie has also designed props for Richard Foreman’s Bad Boy Nietzsche, as well as recently co-designing with Lara Furniss the permanent Design for Living exhibit at the Ten Chimney’s Foundation in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin.

TATJANA RADSIC (Costume Designer) graduated in Belgrade from the College of Fine and Applied Arts in 1995 and from Faculty of Applied Arts in 1999. She is a member of the Association of Applied Arts in Serbia and Costume Society of America. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. She has received numerous professional awards. Recent costume design credits include Redmoon Theater, 500 Clown, American Theater Company, Apple Tree Theater, Opera Theatre of Highland Park, City Lit Theater, Creede Repertory Theatre Company in Colorado.

JOHN CULBERT (Lighting Designer) has recently designed scenery for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Regina and Court Theatre’s Guys and Dolls. He received a Joseph Jefferson Award for his lighting design for Court’s production of The Triumph of Love. He has also received Jeff nominations for Mirror of the Invisible World at the Goodman Theatre and Fair Lady at a Game of Poem Cards, Serious Money, Candida, Electra, The Misanthrope, and The Little Foxes at Court Theatre. Recent designs include Court Theatre’s The Romance Cycle, Hamlet, Piano, The Learned Ladies, The Cherry Orchard, An Ideal Husband, and La Bête; Northlight Theatre’s Sky Girls; the Goodman Theatre’s Trojan Women, Boy Gets Girl, As You Like It, The Ties that Bind, and Pirate’s Lullaby; the Lookingglass Theatre production of S/M and the About Face Theatre production of Eleven Rooms of Proust. He designed lighting for Akhnaten and Resurrection at Boston Lyric Opera and Death of a Salesman for Singapore Repertory. He has designed productions for the Cleveland Orchestra, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Playhouse 91, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Colorado Opera Festival, Baton Rouge Opera, and Southern Repertory. Other projects include the lighting design for the Chicago Park District’s Buckingham Fountain and Living Together, an exhibit at the Field Museum. Mr. Culbert serves as the dean of The Theatre School of DePaul University.

ANDRE PLUESS and BEN SUSSMAN (Composers/Sound Designers) have designed 15 plays at Court, most recently The Romance Cycle. Design and composition credits include projects for Lookingglass Theatre (Artistic Assoc.), Victory Gardens (resident designers), About Face (associate artists), the Goodman, Steppenwolf and many other Chicago theaters. Broadway credits include I Am My Own Wife and Metamorphoses. They have received five Joseph Jefferson Citations, a Jeff Award, an After-Dark Award, L.A. Ovation and Drama Critics Circle Awards and a Lortel nomination for music and sound. Upcoming projects include Pericles for the Washington D.C. Shakespeare Theatre, Secret in the Wings at Seattle Rep., Berkeley Rep. and the McCarter Theatre, The Day Emily Married, a new play by Horton Foote for Primary Stages in N.Y., Hard Times at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia, 1984 for Lookingglass, The Romance of Magno Rubio at Victory Gardens, Winesburg, Ohio for About Face, and Intimate Apparel at Steppenwolf. Mr. Pluess is teaching Advanced Sound Design at Northwestern University.

DAVID CHRISTOPHER KRAUSE (Redmoon Artistic Engineer) relocated to Chicago in 2001 from North Carolina, where he attended the NC School of the Arts School of Filmmaking and the North Carolina State University College of Mechanical Engineering. He is proud to be the Artistic Engineer for Redmoon Theater for whom he has engineered, among other shows, The Drum Tree, Salao’s boat hoisting “bridge,” the set design for 2002’s Winter Pageant, and Redmoon's automata bikes. He designed the stage for Frank Maugeri’s wildly popular and award winning Potatoes. He is also currently developing his own television show, Yard Sailing.

SCOTT PONDROM (Prop and Object Designer) is a Chicago-based designer whose work has included designing for Redmoon Theater’s Salao (Chicago Shakespeare), Seagull (Steppenwolf Studio), The 12th Annual Winter Pageant (Redmoon Central), and the shrine workshop for All Hallow’s Eve (Logan Square, Chicago). He is also credited as scenic painter for New York City Players’ recent Henry IV Part I (BAM, Brooklyn/Hebbel Theater, Berlin). Puppet designer for Potatoes (Sketchbook Festival, Chopin Theater), Greasy Joan & Co.’s Marisol (Viaduct Theater), Lady From the Sea (Chopin Theater) and as head painter for a season at Stages St. Louis Theater Company. In addition Scott has received a total of seven artists’ grants from The St. Louis’ Regional Arts Commission, Old North St. Louis Neighborhood Restoration, and the Emerson Electric Co. Scott is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

SHOSHANNA UTCHENIK (Puppet Designer) cut her teeth designing and directing with Redmoon Theater back in the days of tape and maché, and happily remounts the collaborative bronco with this production of Cyrano. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Shoshanna has worked with Theater Oobleck, Prop Thtr, and executed the monthly Cucaracha Cabaret of experimental performance in 2003. Independent puppetry works include The Penny Jar, which debuted at the Rhino Festival in 2002. She teaches visual art and puppetry with SAIC, Gallery 37, and the Hyde Park Art Center, among others. Shoshanna was awarded a Jeff Citation for her set co-design for Redmoon’s Hunchback in 2001. She is also the recipient of a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant 2002 and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in New Performance Forms 2004.

SARAH GUBBINS (Dramaturg) Off Broadway: Omnium-Gatherum; Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival: Omnium-Gatherum, Second Death of Pricilla, Sans Culottes in the Promised Land. Chicago Credits: Steppenwolf Theatre, Our Lady of the 121st Street, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, The Ordinary Yearnings of Miriam Buddwing, and The Weir; Next Theatre, Far Away, Cherry Docs, The Incident, The Laramie Project, Among the Thugs, The Boarding House; Naked Eye Theatre Company, The Idiot Box, Nocturne, Waving Goodbye, Cannibals, Stop Kiss, One Flea Spare. Assorted credits with Strawdog Theatre Company, About Face Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Roadworks, Prop Thtr. She has been a guest dramaturg at the New Harmony Project. She just wrote Fatty Arbuckle’s Spectacular Musical Revue, produced by The Second City Theatricals. Sarah is a graduate of Northwestern University.