Production Staff
Marcus Gardley
Playwright
Lileana Blain-Cruz
Director
LCT: Pipeline; the LCT3 productions of Marys Seacole (Obie Award), War (also Yale Rep); also Resident Director. Recent projects include Dreaming Zenzile (St. Louis Rep, McCarter, upcoming at NYTW/National Black Theatre); …(Iphigenia) (MASS MoCA, Arts Emerson, Kennedy Center); Hansel and Gretel (film for Houston Grand Opera); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Girls (Yale Rep); Faust (Opera Omaha); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Obie Award), Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Signature); Thunderbodies, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep); The House That Will Not Stand, Red Speedo (NYTW); ... read more
Montana Levi Blanco
Costume Design
Montana is a theatre designer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His grandmother, a lampshade artisan, inspired an early love of fabric, color, and beauty. Montana is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B.M. Oboe Performance), Oberlin College (B.A. History), Brown University (M.A. Public Humanities), and the Yale School of Drama (M.F.A. Design). Prior to attending Yale, he was the Robert L. Tobin Curatorial Intern at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
Off-Broadway: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead (Lucille Lortel, Audelco nominations), In the ... read more
Justin Ellington
Sound Design & Original Music
LCT: Pass Over (LCT3), Pipeline, Other Desert Cities. Off-Broadway: Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop); He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, The Winter’s Tale (TFANA). Additional theater: Father Comes Home From the Wars, How to Catch Creation, Until The Flood (Goodman); Familiar (Steppenwolf); Ink (Kennedy Center); The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); As You Like It (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); The American Clock (The Old Vic). Awards include Grammy, ASCAP and Obie awards. ... read more
Dawn-Elin Fraser
Dialect & Vocal Coach
Marcus Gardley
Writer
Marcus Gardley is a proud Bay Area-born playwright-poet whom The New Yorker calls “the heir to Garcia Lorca, Pirandello and Tennessee Williams.” He received a 2019 Obie Award for his play The House That Will Not Stand and is the recipient of the 2019 Doris Duke Artist Award. His play X or The Nation V. Betty Shabazz was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and was remounted Off-Broadway in the spring of 2018. He is a 2019 Library Laureate of San Francisco, the recipient of the 2018 Guiding Light Award presented by California Shakespeare Theater, and won the 2017 Special ... read more
Raja Feather Kelly
Movement
Terri K. Kohler
Stage Manager
Adam Rigg
Scenic Design
LCT debut. Off-Broadway includes On Sugarland, The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW); Cullud Wattah (The Public); Fefu and Her Friends (Special Citation, Henry Hewes Design Award; TFANA); Is God Is (Soho Rep); Fabulation, or the Re-Education of the Undine (Signature); Continuity (MTC); and Blue Ridge (Atlantic). Opera includes The Lord of Cries (Santa Fe Opera), Breaking the Waves (Opera Philadelphia), Giustino (Theater An Der Wien) and Prism (LA Opera). Upcoming projects: Hood (Asolo Rep), The Listeners (Norwegian National Opera), Soft (MCC). ... read more
Yi Zhao
Lighting Design
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