Miriam Nilofa Crowe (Lighting Design) at Lehman College: Church, BUSTED!, When January Feels Like Summer, Passing Strange, Hamlet, Jesus Hopped the A Train, Electricidad, Life of Galileo, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a lot of dance productions. Recently in NY: Kennedy (film version and Off-Broadway), Teenage Dick (Ma Yi +The Public), Mirrors and Charlie’s Waiting (Parity Productions), Hurricane Party (The Collective NY), SeagullMachine and home/sick (The Assembly), This is Modern Art and Platonov (Blessed Unrest), Anna (Dusan Tynek), PS 160 (Gabrielle Mertz), 6 Characters … (Theodora Skipitares), 2Hymnvb (Anneke Hansen), The Penalty (The Apothetae), Medea (Bryan Davidson Blue), and Symphony for the Dance Floor (BAM). She is a founding member of Wingspace Theatrical Designing and has an MFA from Yale. www.wingspace.com/miriam
Monica Duncan (Director of Video Design) is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn. Her time-based work investigates the nature of visual perception and audience-performer dynamics through camouflage, stillness and collective image-making. Duncan’s video and performance work has been exhibited at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Hebbel am Ufer HAU1, Frankfurt Lab, zeitraumexit, Komuna//Warszawa, The Kitchen, Roulette, Atlanta Contemporary, Hallwalls, La Casa Encendida, ZKM, LACMA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, amongst others. She has been a visiting artist at the Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University, Hunter College, Signal Culture, Experimental Television Center, Scena Robocza, Institute for Electronic Arts and PACT Zollverein. Duncan received her BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University, MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego and while on a D.A.A.D fellowship her MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies, JLU Gießen, Germany. www.monicaduncan.net
Christopher Higgins (Technical Direction) was appointed in July 2009 as the full time Technical Director for Lehman Stages. Mr. Higgins brings to the position over thirty six years of experience as a technical director and carpenter in regional theater, summer stock, touring, and commercial scene shops. Prior to joining the staff at Lehman College, Mr. Higgins was a faculty member at New York City College of Technology. Mr. Higgins has also held full time positions at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Massachusetts’ Amherst campus. Mr. Higgins worked professionally at Hudson Scenic Studios, a commercial scene shop building scenery for Broadway shows and tours. He holds a BA in Theater Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA in Technical Design and Production from the Yale School of Drama. Mr. Higgins is also an active member of IATSE Local One.
Kyle Higgins (Scenic Design and Visual Art) has designed the following for Lehman College: A View from the Bridge, Hairspray, Urinetown the Musical, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off, Motherfucker with the Hat, Macbeth, The Life and Times of Galileo, Polaroid Stories. She holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of the United ScenicArtists local 829. For the past 20 years she worked at Hudson Scenic Studio as a ScenicArtist, creating scenery for Broadway. While every project is challenging, fun and in the end a beautiful work of art, her proudest achievements will always be her son and daughter, now fine young adults!
Amy Larimer (Director) is a dance/theater artist and director of the Dance Program at Lehman College. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Connecticut College and received her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Her work has been performed at festivals including; The Crisis Art Festival, Arezzo, Italy and the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation as well as in New York City venues including: The 92nd Street Y, Dixon Place, DTW, HERE, Emerging Artists: New Works Festival, Joe's Pub, The PIT, The Tank, Triskelion Arts and The West End Theater. She was a founding member of Nicholas Leichter Dance and toured internationally with Leichter for 10 years. Most recently she has been working as one half of The Raving Jaynes: Improvised Dance Theater, a duo that uses improvisational structures from dance and theater to create fully improvised performances. They perform regularly at the PIT and have been presented at national and international festivals including the Mount Olymprov Improv Festival in Athens, IMPRO Amsterdam; the Abundance Festival in Karlstad, Sweden; La 2da Muestra Nacional de Improvisación Teatral/ImproTop,in Tepic, Mexico; Big City Improv Festival in Toronto; TCIF in Minneapolis; Big City Improv in Toronto, The District Improv Festival in D.C.; The Boston Festival of Comedy Arts; The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin and Femprovisor in San Fransisco, among others. She is a certified yoga teacher and has published articles on improvisation and pedagogy in The Journal of Dance Education and The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. @ravingjaynes www.ravingjaynes.com
Anthony Paul-Cavaretta (Costume Design) Design Credits Include: Little Women: The Broadway Musical (Gallery Players), Stupid F##king Bird (Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute), Ludwig And Bertie (Theater For The New City), Tour: Julius Caesar (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Murder For Two (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre), An Inspector Calls *Winner Of The 2019 New Hampshire Theatre Award For Best Costume Design In A Professional Production, Steel Magnolias (Peterborough Players); Tartuffe, Cyrano, The Tempest (Titan Theatre Company); Hydrogen Jukebox (Chautauqua Opera); Mesquite, NV, Composure (Workshop Theater); Discover Opera: Mary Popera, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel, & The Magic Flute (Manhattan School Of Music), Lake, The Iceman Cometh (Hudson Guild Theatre Company); Brundibar (Sarasota Youth Opera); Carmen, Rigoletto (Long Island Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Life of Galileo, Electricidad, Hamlet (Lehman College); Trojan Barbie, As You Like It, Othello, Big Love (Post Theatre Company). Film Design Credits Camp Wedding (2019), Penned (Short 2019), The Tell-Tale Heart: A Musicabre (Short 2019)*Winner of the 2019 Cinema World Fest for Best Costumes, and Winner of the 2019 South Film and Arts Academy Festival for Best Costume Design in a Feature Film, C.I.T. (Short 2016); M.F.A. Theatre (Purdue University) anthonypaulcavaretta.com
Luke Santy (Sound Design) is a Brooklyn-based musician and theater artist particularly interested in the fields of sound design and creative tech. He is Co-Artistic Director and Musical Director of puppet-based theatre company Little Did Productions (lilttledidproductions.com), which has performed at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, GA), and at the National Puppetry Festival (Storrs, CT). Other Favorite Credits include “Meditating with My Parents” (The Brick, Dixon Place), “Lost and Found” (EMPAC), “LA Party” (Dartmouth College), “Yo Miss!” (Dancer’s Workshop, Jackson Hole, WY), “Electricidad” (Lehman College); Listen at LUKEINTERNET.bandcamp.com
Alyssa VanGorder (Stage Management) is a singer, actress, stage manager and producer. She received her BFA in Vocal Performance from SUNY Purchase and has been seen in various operas, musicals, plays and films. Alyssa has also co-founded two theatre companies and produced numerous plays and musicals to date. She has worked with various organizations to raise money and awareness for charities, which include Broadway Cares, The Ronald McDonald House, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Helping Hands and The AntiDefamation League. Alyssa is also currently the Managing Director of TITAN Theatre Company and a proud member of Actors’ Equity. www.alyssavangorder.com