Kate Boyd
(Set & Light Design) designs scenery and lighting in the Bay Area. Recent projects include scenery for Private Jokes Public Places at Aurora Theater, lighting for The Long Christmas Ride Home at Magic Theatre, scenery for The Marriage of Figaro at Center Rep. Other sets include Splittin’ the Raft at Marin Theatre; Blue/Orange at Aurora Theatre, Nickel and Dimed for TheatreWorks and BRAVA. For the Magic Theatre: The Sex Habits of American Women, First Love, Schrödinger’s Girlfriend, and Summertime. At Brava, she designed lights for Culture Clash and Stop Kiss. Kate teaches design and was a recipient of the Gerbode Design Fellowship with the Working Women Festival.
Robert Davidson
(Trapeze Choreography), Head of Movement at the National Theatre Conservatory, was the original movement and sound collaborator for Expedition 6. Formerly director of his own dance company, he has choreographed and toured throughout the world since 1987. His signature aerial works include Rapture: Rumi as well as Airborne: Meister Eckhart for 45 aerialists, dancers, and singers. Formerly on the graduate faculty of the School of Drama at the University of Washington, he is also the first certified Master Teacher of the Skinner Releasing Technique. His academic training is in music, specializing in piano, voice, and music composition from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Callie Floor+
(Costume Design) earned her BFA from the University of Utah and her Higher Diploma in Theatre Design from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Since coming to the Bay Area in 1987, she has designed for many Bay Area theatres including ACT, ACT MFA Program, West Bay Opera, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Zaccho Dance Theatre, and Aurora Theatre. She is happy to return to Magic Theatre, having last designed Hopper Collection in 2006. Recent projects include Hysteria for Aurora Theatre and The Subject Tonight is Love for Marin Theatre Company. Callie is the resident designer for the California Revels and currently holds the position of Costume Rentals Supervisor for ACT.
Gary Grundei
(Original Music) is an award-winning composer, pianist, and sound designer whose music has been heard at the Kennedy Center, Denver Center, New York Stage and Film, Boulder’s Chautauqua Community House, Naropa University, Occidental College, the Ohio State University, and various modern dance performances. He has worked with Meredith Monk, among others, and is the founder of the experimental music ensemble, the living room project.
Sara Huddleston
(Sound Design / Production Director) Recently relocated from Los Angeles, where she had been designing sound and scenery for over seven years, Sara joined the Magic staff in May as their Production Director and Resident Sound Designer. Favorite design credits include: The Boomerang Kid (Powerhouse Theatre), Preludes and Fugues (Son of Semele Ensemble), In On It (Encore Theatre Company), American Standard (Firefly Productions), How I Learned to Drive (Vox Humana), Swimming in the Shallows (Meta Theatre Company), and A Human Interest Story (Son of Semele Ensemble). She is very proud to be a part of this exciting production.
Jennifer McCray Rincon
(Associate Director) has been the Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory since 1991. She received a BA from Yale University and an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama. After Yale she was the staff repertory director for The Acting Company under the artistic direction of her longtime colleague Gerald Gutierrez. She has received many awards including an NEA directing fellowship at Playwrights Horizons under artistic director Andre Bishop, a Fulbright Teaching fellowship in Bogota, Colombia at the Teatro Popular de Bogota, the Boris Sagal directing grant at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the John Shubert scholarship at the Yale School of Drama. She was the Artistic Director of the Lizard Head Theatre Company in Telluride where she directed Proof, Sylvia, All in the Timing, and The Syringa Tree. Ms. Rincon has also directed productions at the Denver Center Theatre Company and at El Centro Su Teatro.
Angela Nostrand
(Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to the Magic. Recent credits include: The Long Christmas Ride Home and The God of Hell (Magic Theatre); Bosoms and Neglect, Private Jokes, Public Places, and The Price (Aurora); Restoration Comedy (Stanford Summer Theatre); Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors and The Pavilion (Marin Theatre Company); Family Alchemy and Rose (Traveling Jewish Theatre); The Wonderful Story of Zaal, The Killing Blanket and The Master Maid (Word for Word's School and Library Tour); Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, The Laramie Project, The Last Train to Nibroc, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and others (The B Street Theatre); and The People's Temple (Berkeley Rep).
Lucia Scheckner
(Assistant Director) most recently worked with The Cutting Ball Theatre on Taming of the Shrew, directed by Rob Melrose, and Woyzeck, directed by Adriana Baer. Lucia has also collaborated with Just Theater on the Bay Area premiere of Anne Washburn's I Have Loved Strangers and with Aurora Theatre on The Birthday Party, directed by Tom Ross. She has an MFA in dramaturgy and script development from Columbia University.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association. AEA, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org.
+Member of United Scenic Artists local 829. United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre. |
