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MICHAEL BROWN (Scenic Designer) Broadway: The Price (dir. James Naughton). Associate Design: Private Lives, The Crucible, The Rocky Horror Show. Off-Broadway: Open Heart, Meshuggah, Texarkana, Waltz, World of Mirth (Drama Desk Nomination), Unwrap Your Candy, No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, Joe Fearless, The Exact Center of the Universe, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. Regional: Nat King Cole & Me, The Merchant of Venice, A Streetcar Named Desire, King Hedley II, Jitney (Denver Center), Proof, Book of Days (Arena Stage), M. Butterfly (Syracuse Stage), This is Our Youth, Sideman (Philadelphia Theatre Company), and five seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Current Projects: Blue Room (Signature Theatre), Dirty Story, Oedipus Rex, Madwoman of Chaillot (Denver Center). Michael is a graduate of Brown University (BA) and Brandeis University (MFA).
JACQUELINE FIRKINS (Costume Designer) Design work includes sets and/or costumes for over 15 productions at Portland Stage Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Fantasticks at Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Heaven Can Wait at Westport Playhouse, Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare and Company, Richard II and Love's Labours Lost at Shakespeare Festival of Tulane, Marathon of New Plays 2001 for EST, A Cup of Coffee at Yale Repertory Theatre, The Illusion, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, The Visions of Simone Machard, A Midsummer Night's Dream and La Dispute for New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Waiting for Godot for Brave New Repertory, Solomon Breaks and Gardens of Torture for About Face Theatre Company, Life Is a Dream, Hamlet and Twelfth Night at Yale School of Drama. Independent film design includes Now and Again and Morning Comes. Jacqueline is a Recipient of a 2001 Princess Grace Award and a faculty member at Loyola University Chicago.
MICHELLE HABECK (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Projection Design (also National Tour & London) Regional: Court Theatre (Guys and Dolls, The Romance Cycle) Goodman Theater (Lobby Hero, The Christmas That Almost Wasn't) Steppenwolf Theatre (Ten Percent Of Molly Snyder) Alliance Theatre (Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?) Indiana Repertory Theatre (Amber Waves, LD) (An Almost Holy Picture, SD) The Swine Palace Repertory Theatre (Waiting for Godot) Northlight Theatre (A Skull In Connemara). Chicago credits include designs with: Next Theatre, American Theater Company, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Strawdog, Eclipse Theatre, Uffish Theatre, Irish Repertory Theatre and The Chicago Field Museum. Associate Design: The Boy From Oz, Movin' Out (Broadway), Playing With Fire: Julie Taymor Museum Exhibit, King Hedley II (Regional, Broadway), Gem Of The Ocean (Regional), The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Blue Group 2002. Awards: 2002 Michael Merritt (Michael Maggio) Emerging Artist Award, The 2002-2004 NEA/TCG CDP Grant for Designers, a Finishers Medal for the 2003 Lasalle Bank Chicago Marathon. Michelle holds an MFA in Lighting and Scenic design from Northwestern University.
JOSHUA HORVATH (Co-Sound Designer/Composer) is proud to be back at Court after designing Guys and Dolls and The Romance Cycle. Recent projects include: Proof (Goodman), Tempest and Titus Andronicus (Milwaukee Shakespeare Theatre), Homebody/Kabul and Les Blancs (University of Madison), Taking Care, Jesus Hopped the A' Train, and Winesburg, Ohio (Steppenwolf), Nocturne (Naked Eye), They All Fall Down (Lookingglass), Vintage Red and the Dust in the Road, Trivial Pursuits, and Devil's Sonata (Visions and Voices), Hannah and Martin (Timeline), Spitfire Grill, Jammin' with Pops, and Dirty Blonde (Apple Tree), Children of Eden (Northwestern University). He has designed Ghosts, Abducting Diana, Noises Off, Polaroid Stories, and Assassins at DePaul University where he teaches Sound Design and Technology. Assistant Sound Design: Bounce (Goodman). Associate Sound Design: La Luna Muda and Secret in the Wings (Lookingglass). Upcoming productions: Electricidad (Goodman), and The Fantasticks (Metropolis). Josh is a production affiliate of Lookingglass Theatre Company. He has also composed music for the feature length film Stray Dogs, and the short Pretty Ladies: the Super8explosion.

RAY NARDELLI (Co-Sound Designer/Composer) has composed music and designed sound at The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Northlight Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, The Gift Theatre, Northwestern Theatre, DePaul Theatre, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare, Meadow Brook Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Dolphinback Theatre, American Girl Theatre, Skylight Opera, and Wright State University Theatre. Assistant Sound Design credits at the Goodman, Steppenwolf Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club and at the Next Theatre. Ray has recorded, mixed and produced CDs for the musicals The Sound Of One and La Luna Muda. Film credits include Stray Dogs, Pretty Ladies, and Crush. Ray teaches Sound Design at DePaul University and Northwestern University. Other work includes sound and music used on NPR, PBS, NBC's The Today Show and Jeff Gordon Racing, A CD-ROM game. Memberships include ASCAP & IATSE #2.

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