Repertory Season Designers and Crew
ASDS Repertory Season
- Repertory Season Academic Manager - Ana Mari de Quesada
- Process Lab Instructors - Jee Duman, Andreas Manolikakis, Raelle Myrick and Brian Rhinehart
- Director of MFA Playwriting - Sheri Wilner
Production
- Production Manager - Kyle Atkins
- Assistant Production Manager - Maranda Salvas
- Technical Director - Jimmy Kohlmann
Designers
Sean Hagerty*
Sound Designer - (Weeks A, C, E)
Sean Hagerty is a sound designer, composer, and violinist based in NYC. With Third Rail Projects, he's created immersive soundtracks for Then She Fell (Bessie Award), Ghost Light (Lincoln Center), Yours to Lose (SXSW), Midsummer: A Banquet (Drama Desk Nom.), Sweet and Lucky (Denver Center), The Grand Paradise, and Still, the Sky, a fully underscored audiobook. Other shows include Mint Theater's Sump'n Like Wings (Theater Row), Drift (New World Stages), Hit the Body Alarm (Performing Garage), Around the World in 80 Days (Davenport Theater), The Gospel According to Heather (Theatre 555), The Wild Party (Denver Center), Hound of the Baskervilles (Weston Playhouse, Virginia Stage) and 100 plays with the Actors Studio Drama School. Associate sound designer and sound supervisor for Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb / Public Theater) and Jill Sobule's F*ck 7th Grade (Wild Project). Narrative podcasts include The World to Come, The Girl Who Wasn't There (Audible Original), and Bite-Sized Broadway. .
Brandon Bulls
Sound Designer - (Weeks B, D)
Brandon Bulls (Sound Designer) (he/him) is a sound designer and composer based in Brooklyn. Brandon is a member of the IATSE Local United Scenic Artists 829, and the Theatrical Sound Designers & Composers Association. B.M. in Music Composition, Minor in Music History & B.A. in Theater from UIW. . Off-Broadway: A Woman Among Women - The Bushwick Starr (Asst.), The Counter - Roundabout Theater (Asst.), Stalker - New World Stages (Asst.), Sabbath's Theater - The New Group (Assc.), Primary Trust - Roundabout Theater (Assc.), Elyria - Atlantic Theater (Assc.), Fiddler on the Roof - New World Stages (Assc.), Wedding Band - TFANA (Assc.). Off-Off Broadway: NINA - Theaterlab, On Set With Theda Bara - Transport Group, Phantasmagoria - The Tank, The Fantastic Fellowship - Under St. Marks, Scouts - The Players Theater. Regional: Matilda - The Spence School, The Pittsburgh Free Press - Lee Strasburg Theater & Film Institute, Sex Variants of 1941 (Asst.) - NYU Skirball, The Half-God Of Rainfall - American Repertory Theater (Assc.), The Trojan Women - Atlantic Acting School, Hedda Gabler - Atlantic Acting School, Der Ring Gott Farblonjet - Columbia University, Tempo - Williamstown Theater Festival.
Jennifer Fok*
Lighting Designer - (Weeks A, B, C)
Jennifer Fok (Lighting Designer) is a Chinese-American designer based in New York City. Her design collaborations center around reimagining classics and established works, exploring creative storytelling with new work, and collaborating with interdisciplinary arts in movement, dance, and music. She is thrilled to be returning for her second year with ASDS. BFA in Theatre Production and Design from Ithaca College. USA 829. .
Amina Alexander
Lighting Designer - (Weeks D, E)
Amina Alexander (Lighting Designer) is a freelance lighting designer/assistant based in New York City. She works in many areas of lighting design from fashion, theatre, dance and live music. Design credits includes Alex Edelman Just for Us (Off-Broadway), Stick Fly at St Louis Rep Theater, Superhero at The Sheen Center (Off-Broadway) to name a few. Assistant credits include Black No More at Signature Theatre, KPOP (Broadway), Shucked (Broadway). She is the lighting designer/programmer and assistant production manager for Simple Solutions Production Group NYC. Formally the Lighting Design fellow for Black Theatre Coalition 21/22
Brian Pacelli*
Set Designer/Projection Designer - (Weeks B, D)
Brian Pacelli (Projection Design) is an NYC-based video and scenic designer. Selected designs include Off-Broadway: Welcome to the Big Dipper (York Theatre Company), Scarlett Dreams (Greenwich House Theatre); Regional: Elf and Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway Sacramento), The Steel Man (Penguin Rep Theatre), Tommy and Me (Bucks County Playhouse), Five Guys Named Moe (Fulton Theatre), The Adult in the Room (Victory Gardens Theater); Selected associate and assistant design credits include Broadway: Pictures from Home, The Piano Lesson, Mr. Saturday Night, Harry Connick Jr鈥., Derren Brown: Secret; Off-Broadway: N/A (Lincoln Center), A Sign of the Times (New World Stages), Hamlet (The Public), Opera: The Shining (Lyric Opera of Kansas City), Tristan und Isolde and M. Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera). .
Samantha Tutasi
Set Designer - (Weeks A, C, E)
Samantha Tutasi (Scenic Designer) she/her/hers Ecuadorian-American theater artist, most recent collaborations include: Scenic Design - B*TCHCRAFT: A Musical Play (Wild Project); The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Crucible; Tuck Everlasting; Captain Courageous; The Secret Garden (Powerhouse Theater Collaborative), Authorial Intent; Exit, Pursued By A Bear; The Laramie Project (ASDS Rep Theater). Virgin, Mother, Whore (Boundless Theater Co.). Assistant/Associate Scenic Design - Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie; The Human Dream Project (The Tank). She also collaborates with Design Action on their immersive theatrical design program, Springboard To Design. BFA: State University of New York at Purchase, 2022. .
Addison Heeren & Lauren Russell
Properties Designers - (Weeks A, B, C, D,E)
Addison Heeren (Properties Designer) is a NYC based prop supervisor. Some recent credits include (Broadway): Oh Mary!, Freestyle Love Supreme, Flying Over Sunset, Pass Over and Almost Famous (Asst. Props). (Off-Broadway): Oh Mary! (Lortel), The Big Gay Jamboree (Orpheum), Phish鈥檚 鈥淕amehendge鈥 at MSG (Co-Props), Monsoon Wedding (St. Ann鈥檚), Sancocho, Bite Me (WP Theater), Fiddler Afn Dakh (Directed by Joel Grey), Ordinary Days (Keen Company), 17 Minutes, The Thing with Feathers, Abigail鈥檚 Party (Barrow Group), Fern Hill (59E59), Jersey Boys (NCL Bliss), Midnight at the Never Get (York Theater), A Clockwork Orange (NWS), A Room of My Own (Abingdon). .
Lauren Page Russell (Properties Designer) is a props designer originally from Toronto, Canada. Recent credits include Our Town (Ethel Barrymore Theatre), Syncing Ink (Victoria at The Apollo), Sesame Street Live (National Tour), The Connector (Manhattan Class Company), Phish (Live) (Madison Square Garden NYE), Harmony (Ethel Barrymore Theatre) and (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene), 顿枚辫辫别濒驳补苍驳别谤 (Park Avenue Armory), Monsoon Wedding (St. Ann鈥檚 Warehouse), Love (Park Avenue Armory), Ohio State Murders (James Earl Jones Theatre), Considering Matthew Shepherd (Trinity Church Wall Street), Blues Clues Live! (National Tour), Heart (Audible/Minetta Lane), Windfall (Baystreet Theatre), Cocomelon Live! (National Tour), Dana H (Vineyard Theatre. Lauren lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Andreea Mincic
Costume Designer - (Weeks A, C, E)
Andreea Mincic (Costume Designer) is a visual artist and designer. From set design to costumes and making masks or puppets, Andreea loves working on projects with good ideas and collaboration with other artists. Her work has been presented in New York in venues such as NYTW, BAM, LaMama, Playwrights Horizons, Bushwick Starr, Skirball, etc. Close collaborators are Alex Tatarsky, The Builders Association, James Scruggs, Tom Lee, Jim Findley, Hoi Polloi, and Kate Brehm. Andreea is an adjunct faculty member at ASDS; she mentors students about the creative collaborative process of making theater performances.
Jolene Marie Richardson*
Costume Designer - (Weeks B, D)
Jolene Marie Richardson (Costume Designer) is a costume designer and fashion historian based in Beacon NY. Jolene is thrilled to be working along side the incredible directors and actors at ASDA. Her work can be seen across film, TV, and theatre. Her work includes Cannibal Mukbang (Film Festival circuit), The Weir (Centenary Stage Company), Calling All Kates (Adirondack Theatre Festival), Scare Package II (Shudder), The Last Drive In with Joe Bob Briggs (Shudder), Terrifier 3 (Assistant Costume Designer; Streaming on Screambox). Jolene also has a series of fashion history lectures and is a Full Time Professor at Centenary University where she teaches Costume Design and Fashion History. for upcoming lectures and future work.
Claire Talbott
Projection Designer - (Week C)
Claire Talbott (Projection Designer) is a video designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Recent credits include: King Lear (The Shed, Associate Video Designer), Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (North American Tour, Lead Animator), Hell's Kitchen (Broadway, Projection Design Fellow), The Fire This Time Festival (Wild Project, Video Designer), Bitchcraft (Wild Project, Associate Video Designer), Little Black Book (Bowery Ballroom, Associate Projections Designer), FLEX (NYU Grad Acting, Projection Designer), Pericles (NYU Grad Acting, Projection Designer), Lost GRRRL Found (Stone Circle Theater, Video and Lighting Designer). Upcoming: Ainadamar (Los Angeles Opera, Associate Video Designer)
*Denotes member of the United Scenic Artists Union
Management and Crew
- General Manager - Brierpatch Productions
- House Manager- Chris Singleton
Eitan Markowitz*
Production Stage Manager - (Weeks A, C, E)
Eitan Markowitz (Production Stage Manager) is excited to join The Actors Studio for their 2025 Rep Season! Recent credits include: 鈥淲itness Room鈥 & 鈥淒avid鈥 (AMT) 鈥淚n The Heights鈥 and 鈥淔iddler on The Roof鈥(The Gateway Playhouse), 鈥淐oping Mechanism鈥 (The Wild Project) 鈥淲aitress鈥 & 鈥淛ersey Boys鈥, (Cape Playhouse), 鈥淪even Sins鈥 & 鈥淣utcracker Rouge鈥 (Company XIV), 鈥淭he Tattooed Lady鈥 (Philadelphia Theater Company), 鈥淭he 39 Steps鈥 (Strongbox Theater). He is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College. He would like to thank Sarah, Ana Mari, his friends, and family for all their love and Support.
McBee*
Production Stage Manager - (Weeks B, D)
McBee (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Melissa Etheridge My Window, 24hr Plays and Musicals on Broadway. Select Off-Broadway: A Sign of the Times, Jersey Boys, Fiddler of the Roof in Yiddish, The Other Josh Cohen, A Letter To Harvey Milk, Murder For Two, Working: A Musical (Drama Desk Award). Recent Tour: Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret. Select Regional: Little Shop of Horrors, The Cher Show, Million Dollar Quartet, Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse); Steel Magnolias, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Guys and Dolls (Theatre Aspen); Kinky Boots (Arvada Center); Cinderella (Syracuse Stage); Many Productions at the Cape Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse. Film & TV: For the Love of Money, Bob the Drag Queen: Live at Caroline鈥檚, How I Met Your Murderer, Sweet Maple Romance, Deadly Debutantes, Cheer for Your Life, College Professor Obsession, Prisoner of Love, Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase. Proud AEA member. .
- Assistant Stage Manager - (Weeks A, C, E) Sarah Adams
- Assistant Stage Manager - (Weeks B, D) Matthew Palmer*
- Production Electrician - Olivia deBree
- Sound Engineer - Kasey Price
- Costume Shop Supervisor - Katie Friedman
- Costume Shop Assistant - Raul Luna
- Wardrobe Supervisor - Maeve Rose
- Intimacy Director - Joey Massa
- Fight Director - Ron Piretti
- Scenic Charge- Clare Cantus
- Scenic Artisan - Jordan Santisteban
- Photographer - Eric McNatt
*Denotes a member of Actors Equity Association