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University High School for 50+ years. This past
year, Joe was the first person to receive the Kevin
Kline Lifetime Achievement Award.
CODY RENARD RICHARD
(
Assistant Stage
Manager
) is so very happy to be at The Muny this
summer! Broadway:
Ghost the Musical
,
Lysistrata
Jones
. Cirque Du Soleil:
OVO
(North
American Tour),
Wintuk
(Madison Square
Garden), Off-Broadway:
Lysistrata Jones
,
Hello
Again
(revival),
Misalliance
(NY City Center).
Regional and Other NYC: Kansas City Rep,
Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,
Transport Group, NYMF, Pearl Theatre, Hope
Summer Rep, Stages St. Louis and most recently
the Broadway-bound workshop of the Tupac
inspired musical
Holler If Ya Hear Me
. BFA from
Webster Conservatory. Twitter: @codyrenard
MICHAEL ANANIA
(
Scenic Designer
) For The
Muny: more than 18 productions. Broadway:
Laughing Room Only
starring Jackie Mason,
A
Change in the Heir, Run for Your Wife, Canterbury
Tales, The View From Here
and
The Gathering
starring Hal Linden. Off-Broadway:
The Spitfire
Grill
for Playwrights Horizons,
Back on the
Boulevard
with Liliane Montevecchi, directed by
Tommy Tune;
Desire Under the Elms-The Opera
(City Center Theatre);
Transformations
(Merkin
Hall);
Lord Byron
(Alice Tully Hall);
Emma
(Park Royal Theatre);
The Miser
and
Romeo and
Juliet
(Equity Library Theatre);
Give My Regards
to Broadway
(Carnegie Hall);
Darlene Love: A
Portrait of a Singer, A Hot Minute
and
Leader
of the Pack
(The Bottom Line);
Anna Christie
(Metropolitan Playhouse);
Shanghai Gesture
(Julia Miles Theater). New York City Opera:
H.M.S. Pinafore, The Merry Widow, La Bohéme,
A Little Night Music, The Desert Song
(all televised
Live From Lincoln Center),
Wonderful Town,
110 in the Shade, The Most Happy Fella, Pajama
Game
and
The New Moon
(televised Live from
Wolftrap).
Regional:
Sight Unseen
(George St.
Playhouse). Resident Designer: Eugene O’Neill
Opera Music Conference (five years), Lake George
Opera (10 years), Central City Opera (10 years).
Resident Designer for the Paper Mill Playhouse
(19 years):
Show Boat
(Great Performances),
The
Wizard of Oz, Windy City
(Prague Quadrennial)
and the critically-acclaimed
Follies
(starring Ann
Miller). Nominated for Australia’s 2002 Tony
®
Award for
Singin’ in the Rain
, Dallas Theatre
League’s 2002 Leon Rabin Award for
My Fair Lady
and the Kevin Kline Award for
The Music Man
at
The Muny. Associate Professor of Scenic Design
for the University of Connecticut.
SETH JACKSON
(
Lighting Designer
) has
designed worldwide tours for Don Henley,
Jason Mraz, Hilary Duff, Melissa Etheridge,
American Idols Live
, Carrie Underwood, Toby
Keith, and Barry Manilow. He is currently co-
designing a new tour for Alice Cooper
with his
co-designer for
Millie,
Nathan W. Scheuer. He
has twice been awarded the Parnelli Award for
Set Designer of the Year in 2007 and 2008, and
received the Illuminating Engineering Society’s
Award of Distinction in 1996. He was awarded
the Redden Award for Excellence in Lighting
Design with the creative team for
Star Wars in
Concert
, and traveled with the show as associate
creative director and lighting director. He was
creative director and production designer for
Selena Gomez,
and
Barry Manilow’s Music and
Passion
, which ran at the Las Vegas Hilton for
five years.
He is an assistant professor of design
at Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre
Arts. He is thrilled to return to The Muny and
to remember all those years ago sitting in the free
seats thinking, “I want to do that!”
MARA BLUMENFELD
(
Costume Designer
)
is pleased to make her Muny debut. Previous
collaborations with director Gary Griffin include
Camelot
and
Evita
(Stratford Shakespeare Festival),
The Merry Widow
(Lyric Opera of Chicago),
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
,
As You Like It
,
A
Flea in Her Ear
,
Sunday in the Park with George
,
A Little Night Music
(Chicago Shakespeare
Theater) and
Pacific Overtures
(CST and Donmar
Warehouse, London). Based in Chicago, she has
designed numerous productions for the Goodman
Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and
Lookingglass Theatre Company, of which she is
an ensemble member. New York credits include
Lucia di Lammermoor
and
La Sonnambula
for the
Metropolitan Opera,
The Glorious Ones
for Lincoln
Center Theater, and Mary Zimmerman’s Tony®
award-winning production of
Metamorphoses
(Circle in the Square, Second Stage). She is the
recipient of the 2012 Michael Merritt Award,
three Joseph Jefferson Awards, has been honored
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