Leigh Breslau (Set Design) is not a set designer. He is design partner at the architecture, engineering & planning firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. He has designed many performing arts venues including Symphony Center in Chicago and the Long Center in Austin, Texas. He has also been involved in renovations of Avery Fisher Hall in New York and the Lyric Opera and Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and was the master planner for Chicago's Millennium Park. Currently he is designing a new performing arts center for Dallas, Texas and a festival park for Norfolk, Virginia. This is his first scenic design for Court Theatre.

John Culbert (Lighting Design) recently designed scenery for Court Theatre’s productions of Glass Menagerie, Man of La Mancha (for which he received a Joseph Jefferson award) and Travesties, Rigoletto for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Regina and lighting for Lookingglass Theatre’s Argonautika, Goodman Theatre’s Hughie and Chicago Children’s Theatre’s A Year with Frog and Toad. He has also received Jeff nominations for Mirror of the Invisible World at the Goodman Theatre and Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, Serious Money, Candida, Electra, The Misanthrope, and The Little Foxes at Court Theatre. Other designs include Court Theatre’s Hamlet and Piano; Goodman Theatre’s Trojan Women and Boy Gets Girl; the Lookingglass Theatre production of S/M and the About Face Theatre production of Eleven Rooms of Proust. He has designed productions for the Singapore Repertory, Opera National du Rhin, Boston Lyric Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, Bristol Riverside Theatre, and the Colorado Opera Festival. 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 at DePaul University.

Andre Pluess and Ben Sussman (Co-Composition/Sound Design) design and composition credits include projects for Lookingglass Theatre (artistic associates), Court Theatre (1999-02 resident artists), Victory Gardens (resident designers), About Face Theatre (associate artists), the Goodman, Steppenwolf and many other Chicago and regional theaters. Broadway credits: I Am My Own Wife and Metamorphoses. Awards: Eleven Joseph Jefferson Awards and Citations, an LA Ovation Award, a Drama Critics Circle Award, a Lortel nomination and Barrymore Award for composition and sound design. Some current projects include The Clean House (Lincoln Center), Sonia Flew (Steppenwolf), The Cocktail Hour (Long Wharf), Blue Door (Berkeley Rep) and The Lost Boys of Sudan (Minneapolis Children's Theatre). Uncle Vanya is their 14th project with Charlie Newell.

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