ROBERT ISRAEL (Scenic Designer) most recently designed sets and costumes for Seattle Opera’s production of Parsifal. He has collaborated with Philip Glass on four premieres, including The Sound of a Voice at American Repertory Theatre. His costume drawings for Glass’s Satyagraha are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. An elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Israel lives in Los Angeles and teaches design at UCLA.

KASIA WALICKA MAIMONE (Costume Designer) Theater credits: The Sound of a Voice (A.R.T, Cambridge), collaborations with Philip Glass on Les Enfants Terribles and Dracula (Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC), with Richard Foreman on How to Be Happy and Maria Del Bosco (Ontological NYC), eight-year collaboration with Susan Marshall. Film credits: Jesus’ Son directed by Allison Mclean, Hysterical Blindness, 9 minutes 11 frames (directed by Mira Nair), Songcatcher (directed by Maggie Greenwald), 13 Conversations About One Thing (directed by Jill Sprechen), The Opportunist (directed by Miles Connel), The Hire (directed by Ang Lee).

BEVERLY EMMONS (Lighting Designer) has designed for Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, dance and opera both in the US and abroad. On Broadway, she designed lights for Amadeus (Tony Award), Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Stephen Sondheim's Passion, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, A Day In Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, The Dresser, Piaf, and Doonesbury. Her Off-Broadway credits include The Vagina Monologues and many productions with Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. For Robert Wilson, she designed lighting for productions spanning 13 years, including in America, Einstein on the Beach and the CIVIL warS part V. She has worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. She has received seven Tony nominations, the 1976 Lumen award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, and a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting, and several Maharam/American Theater Wing Design Awards.

RYAN McKITTRICK (Production Dramaturg) is the American Repertory Theatre's Associate Dramaturg. He received his M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and his B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard. Mr. McKittrick is also a Lecturer in Theatre Arts at Brandeis University and a theatre critic for The Boston Globe. In addition to the Globe, his articles on theatre have appeared in Correspondence, A.R.T. News, ARTicles, and The Boston Phoenix. Mr. McKittrick is a recipient of the TCG New Generations Award and the NTC Scholarship Award. With Julia Smeliansky, he co-translated Chekhov's Lady with a Lapdog for Kama Ginkas' A.R.T. production.