Radio Macbeth

ANNE BOGART is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University, where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, The Radio Play, Alice's Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives, August Strindberg's Miss Julie and Charles Mee's Orestes. Other recent productions include I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Glimmerglass Opera;  Nicholas and Alexandra, Los Angeles Opera; Marina:  A Captive Spirit, American Opera Projects; Lilith and Seven Deadly Sins, New York City Opera. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.

DARRON L. WEST (Sound Design and Co-Director) has been a SITI Company member since 1993 and first collaborated with Anne Bogart in 1990 as resident sound designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville.  His work for theater and dance has been heard in over 400 productions nationally and internationally.  His accolades include a 1998 Obie Award for SITI's Bob, The Princess Grace Award, an Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY, the 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award, a 2006 Lortell and AUDELCO Award.  As director: Kid Simple (2004 Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville), Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and Eurydice (Children's Theater Co. Minneapolis), Big Love (Rude Mechanicals Austin, Texas), SITI Company’s War of the Worlds – The Radio Play and Radio Macbeth.

BRIAN H. SCOTT (Lighting Design) is a SITI Company member and has designed lighting for Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, systems/layers, Death and the Ploughman, bobrauschenbergamerica, War of the Worlds - The Radio Play, and the Midsummer Night’s Dream touring production. He has designed lights for Hamlet at Classic Stage Company; The Darkling for American Opera Projects; The Importance of Being Earnest at the Arena Stage; Marina: A Captive Spirit with American Opera Projects; Twisted Olivia with members of the Ridiculous Theatre Company;  Showpeople with Anne Bogart @ Exit ART; Macbeth (scenic and lighting design), The Laramie Project; Death of A Salesman in Baton Rouge, LA; and Get Your War On; The Match; Cherrywood, How Late It Was How Late (Production Design); Requiem for Tesla, El Parasio, Big Love and Lipstick Traces with Austin Theatre Company the Rude Mechs.

JAMES SCHUETTE (Set and Costume Design) has designed nineteen productions as a member of SITI Company, including Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, La Dispute, Intimations for Saxophone, Bob, Culture of Desire, Room and Score. Recent work as a set and/or costume designer includes I Capuleti e I Montecchi at Glimmerglass Opera; Julius Caesar at ART; Blythe Spirit at Trinity Rep; Oedipus Complex at the Goodman Theatre; The Unmentionables at Steppenwolf Theatre; The Elephant Man at Minnesota Opera; Un Ballo in Maschera at Boston Lyric Opera and Hello Dolly at Papermill Playhouse. His work has been seen at Arena Stage, American Repertory Theatre, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, the Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Prince Music Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, EnGarde Arts, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Glimmerglass Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Colorado, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Colorado, Seattle Opera, and internationally.

J. ED ARAIZA (Dramaturg) has written Vaudeville Vanya, an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the original plays Medeastories, C/O The Grove and The House, all of which he directed in Austin, Texas.  He directed his original plays, Where Do I Begin, at Naropa in Boulder, Colorado, The Water Project at Bowdoin College and The Lost Project at the University of Minnesota. Other directing credits include Ladyleroy and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. J. Ed has been movement consultant on several productions at the Julliard School including The Cherry Orchard, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Balm in Gilead, as well as The Three Sisters and Our Town at the Yale School of Drama. SITI Company acting credits include Who Do You Think You Are, Hotel Cassiopeia, Midsummer Night's Dream, systems/layers, bobrauschenbergamerica, Culture of Desire, The Medium, Small Lives/Big Dreams, War of the Worlds and War of the Worlds - The Radio Play. Regional Theater acting credits include The Cure at Troy, Yale Rep. (American Premiere); Santos and Santos, Mixed Blood Theatre; Keely and Du (original cast), Hartford Stage and ATL; 1969 and Picnic, ATL; Yerma, Arena Stage; Principia Scriptoria, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle; Charley Bacon, South Coast Rep.; King Lear, Macbeth, La Victima, Los Angeles Theatre Center.  Off Broadway: Orestes, Occasional Grace, En Garde Arts. J. Ed was a member of El Teatro de la Esperanza and is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Austin Script Works and NoPE.

ELIZABETH MOREAU (Company Stage Manager) With SITI, Elizabeth has worked on the productions of Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Intimations for Saxophone, A Midsummer Night's Dream, La Dispute, Hayfever, Death and the Ploughman, bobrauschenbergamerica, Score, and systems/layers (with the band Rachel’s), and has toured these as well as Bob, Room, War of the Worlds, War of the Worlds - The Radio Play, and Cabin Pressure. She has worked on Gull and Shutter with Lightbox, Match-Play with the Rude Mechs, Dead Man’s Cell Phone with Ms. Bogart, Apparition, To The Lighthouse, and Doris to Darlene with Les Waters. Elizabeth is the Artistic Associate of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference.

M.L. DOGG (Sound Engineer) has designed for such companies as The Working Theatre, Why Not Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, The Pearl Theatre, Theatre For a New Audience, Ars Nova, The New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, NYU/Tisch, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Grisha Coleman Dance, Stillpoint Productions, The Women’s Project, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Thursday Problem, Impact Theatre, Theatre B, The Lincoln Center Theatre, The Atlantic Theatre, The Depot Theatre, The SITI Co., Classic Stage Company, VoiceChair Productions, Wash & Fold Productions, Shakespeare & Company, The Roundabout Theatre, The Wooster Group, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Monster(less) Actors Inc.  Awards: Outstanding Sound Design, 2005 FringeNYC Festival, Go-Go Kitty, GO!; Drama Desk nominee, 2002, Cressida Among the Greeks.  He is a graduate of Grinnell College and the founder of Doggtown Productions.

MEGAN WANLASS SZALLA (SITI Company Executive Director) has been a member of the SITI Company since 1995. Megan was the company stage manager for five years prior to becoming SITI’s Executive Director. As the Executive Director she oversees SITI’s fiscal security, administrative well-being and prudent growth. In her tenure with SITI, Megan has helped to create over twenty-four shows. She began working with Anne Bogart during The Adding Machine at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has an Arts Administration Certificate from New York University, attended the Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders at Stanford University Business School, was a member of the Arts Leadership Institute Charter Class at Teachers College, Columbia University and holds a B.A. in Theater from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.