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William Kenyon, Associate Curator, Education
Commission
Richard Bryant, Associate Curator, Publication
and Communication
Carl Walling, Associate Curator, Research Commission
USITT
reception at the
Emerging Exhibit during
PQ.| Photo by Jim Lile.
USITT Staff:
Laura Lee Everett, Executive Director, USITT
David Grindle, Former Executive Director, USITT
Joseph King, EDI Liaison
Jim Lile, Technical Director, Florida State University
Joshua
Wickham, Production Manager, Florida
State University
Jonathan Shimon, Technical Advisor, University
at Buffalo
Florida State University Construction Staff:
Colin Campbell, scene shop manager
Jim Lile, Associate Professor
Joshua Wickham, Production Manager
Todd Wren, Associate Professor
Rebecca Stock, Graduate Student
Danielle Gonzalez, Graduate Student
Victoria Guise, Graduate Student
Zachary Cary, Graduate Student
Payton Nugent, Graduate Student
Kendra Drew, Graduate Student
Wesley Seiderman, Graduate Student
Raisltin Yovan, Graduate Student
USA National Exhibit Design Team:
* Yoon Bae is an award-winning set and costume
designer and academic. She has lived
and worked on three different continents and
is passionate about cultural exchange and the
learning it brings. Yoon continues to design internationally
in Europe, Asia, and America.
* Scott Bolman is a lighting designer and educator
working in a diverse array of performance
media, including theatre, dance, music, and
opera. An avid hiker and backpacker, when not
in the theatre, Bolman is often found scaling his
way up a mountain to enjoy the views from the
top.
* Luke Cantarella works primarily as a theatrical
stage designer. He has a lovely daughter named
Tosca and a very talented wife, Christine Hegel,
a legal and economic anthropologist who teaches
at Western Connecticut State University.
* Anna Driftmier is a creative director and production
designer whose work extends across
the U.S. and Europe. Sheactively collaborates
with a wide range of artists to produce visually
powerful, genre-breaking new and revived
pieces of work.
* Richard Hoover is a scenic designer, production
designer, and art director for theatre, television,
and film. He won a Tony Award for scenic design
for the Broadway production of Not About
Nightingales (1999) and is known for his work on
the television show Twin Peaks.
* Stan Mathabane is a sound designer, audio engineer,
music producer, actor, and lyricist based
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in New York City by way of Portland, Oregon,
the coastal opposite of Mathabane's birthplace,
High Point, North Carolina.
* Tanya Orellana designs performance spaces
for theatre and opera. She has been a core
member of the award-winning ensemble Campo
Santo since 2008, participating in its intimate
new work process, conceptualizing and designing
sets alongside the writing process.
* Attilio Rigotti is a Chilean theatre-maker, videogame
designer, and teacher. Along with Orsolya
Szánthó, Rigotti founded GLITCH, a company
that seamlessly combines digital and physical
media to create new forms of storytelling. Their
technology design has been featured in collaborations
with Kaki King, Kennedy Center, and
The Juilliard School, and their video design work
has been a part of Broadway and off-Broadway
productions such as Macbeth and White Girl in
Danger. Rigotti's work as a director has been
recognized by The New York Times, Vulture,
and American Theatre Magazine. Rigotti was a
New York Theater Workshop Artist Fellow from
2022-2023, and was twice awarded the O-1 visa
for extraordinary artistic achievement.
* Orsolya Szantho is a London-based Hungarian
multidisciplinary artist, working across filmmaking,
live performance, and interactive design.
Her projects investigate the relationship between
the organic and the digital, with a focus
on crafting experiences that move and connect
people. Szantho trained and helmed projects in
the UAE, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Cuba,
India, and China, through collaborations with
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard
TDM, The Juilliard School, Broadway's Best
Shows, Seize the Show, Movement Research,
Imagine Science Film Festival, and the Ludwig
Foundation of Cuba. With Attilio Rigotti, Orsolya
co-founded the arts company GLITCH..
USA Emerging Artists Design Team:
* With a passion for history, folktales, and
people's story in general, Shane Cinal strives
to create an environment for the world of the
narrative. Cinal is a scenic designer, artist, and
educator, developing a thoughtful world through
scenery and innovation for professional and educational
theatre. Having designed productions
across the U.S., he has a strong background
in new and conceptual works for theatre and
opera. For the Bloomington Playwrights Project
he has served as the resident scenic designer/
artist and returns regularly as a guest designer.
He also worked for the Jacobs School of MusicMusical
Arts Center in the fields of painting and
properties on new and remounted opera and
ballet productions. Cinal holds a B.A. in theatre
and in history from Indiana University-Bloomington.
He also received his M.F.A. in Scenic Design
from the Ohio State University.
* Derek Jones leads the Panda Roja team with
unending creative energy and technical prowess.
His experience as a college professor and
his passionate attention to detail have positioned
Jones as an instrumental manager and
mentor. He directs his team to focus on creativity,
communication, and collaboration for every
project. He grew up in the Hampton Roads area
of Virginia and moved to Washington, D.C., for
almost a decade. After stints in Indiana and
Maine, Jones moved to Los Angeles to pursue
architectural lighting. He has enjoyed it so much
that he set up roots there while still traveling
across the country to complete projects. His
favorite hobby is traveling the world to ride rollercoasters.
Jones received both a B.A. in theatre
and B.S. in physics from George Washington
University and his M.F.A. in lighting design from
Indiana University. Christopher Rhoton is a
freelance scenic designer in Chicago. Credits
include productions at the Marriott Theatre,
Paramount Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Northlight
Theatre, Music Theatre Works, Porchlight
Music Theatre and more. Other notable credits
include work with Busch Gardens Tampa and
Hollywood Bowl. World. premieres include Beau:
A New Musical, The Life and Slimes of Marc
Summers, The Uncivil War, and Make Me Bad.
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