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Composer | Director | Actors | Designers DESIGNERS “Before I began thinking about the sound for
the show, I spent a lot of time reading through the libretto and
talking with both the composer and the director. As a sound designer
for an opera it is important to talk with the directors to decide
what mikes to use for the actors. My biggest challenge in sound
designing for “Emperor’s New Clothes” was customizing the timing
of the prerecorded music to fit the actual timing of the opera.”—Tony
Angelini
Tony Angelini (Sound Designer)is happy to be back
at The Kennedy Center after designing The Great Quillow in
the fall of 2000. Recent credits include: Much Ado About Nothing
with the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival on Long Island, NY; the world
premier of The Rhythm Club at Signature Theater in Arlington,
VA; SLAM! at The San Diego Repertory Theatre; Gross Indecency
at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Fool For Love and
A Streetcar Named Desire with the Keegan Theatre/ Town Hall
Theatre, Galway, Ireland; Available Light and Tell Me
On A Sunday, at Signature Theatre; Quintuplets for Gala
Hispanic Theatre/National Theatre of Cuba; Comic Briefs,
Master Harold and the Boys and SLAM! at The Studio
Theatre; The Fantasticks and Three Days Of Rain at
The Round House Theatre; Translations, The Field and
On The Verge! for the Keegan Theatre. Other credits include
Ruthless at the Source Theatre, Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde
at Gallaudet University, and Brady Of Broadway! for The National
Portrait Gallery. He has designed sound at the Washington Stage
Guild for productions of Anna Karinina, The Late Edwina
Black, and others. Mr. Angelini is a manager at RCI Sounds
Systems in Rockville, MD.
Costume Designer
”The biggest challenge in costume designing “The
Emperor’s New Clothes” was keeping with the directors’ vision of
timelessness of the show. (Timelessness means something that’s
so fantastical that is takes place beyond the normal boundaries
of having to be set in a certain time and place). So, I had to
design costumes that were very imaginative. To do this, I sat down
and thought to myself, ‘What do I think of when I think of an Emperor?’Then
I began to sketch away After drawing and drawing the costumes began
to take shape!”—Timm Burrows
Timm Burrow(Costume Designer) Theatre Design: Marisol (Trumpet Vine Theatre Company);
Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Life of Galileo (Washington Shakespeare
Company); Costume Designer Dreams
and Assistant Costume Designer Soul
Possessed (Kennedy Center); Wait
Until Dark (West End Dinner Theatre); Leaving
the Summerland (Tribute Production). Opera: Assistant Designer
Cosi Fan Tutte (Wolf Trap
Opera Company); Hansel and
Gretel (Capital City Opera). Film and television: Pride
and Prejudice (The Learning Channel); Eating
and Weeping (Handbag Productions). Set Designer
Tony Cisek(Set Designer)recently worked with the
Kennedy Center’s Youth and Family Programs in the fall of 2000,
designing the set for The Great Quillow. Tony received a
1999 Helen Hayes Award for his designs for Much
Ado About Nothing at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre. Other recent
designs include Hamlet
at the Folger; Communicating Doors at Round House Theatre;
Three Tall Women at Rep
Stage; the 1999 VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Program at the Kennedy
Center; A Raisin in the Sun at City Theatre in
Pittsburgh; Edmond at
the Source; La Grenada at Gala Hispanic Theatre; and
Oak & Ivy at Arena
Stage. His work has also been seen at Theatre of the First Amendment,
Olney Theatre Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington
Shakespeare Company, Baltimore’s Peabody Opera, and Florida State
Opera, among others. Tony holds a Master of Fine Arts in design
from NYU. Prop Designer
Dreama
J. Greaves(Properties
Artisan) has served as properties artisan for many Kennedy Center
Youth and Family Programs shows. Her credits include such diverse
productions as The Snow Queen;
Little Women; Alice in Wonderland; The Nightingale; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and others;
many of which have toured nationally. She has a Master of Fine Arts
from Northwestern University and free-lances throughout the metro
area. Lighting Designer
“As a lighting designer, the decision
loop is the same, no matter what the project—what kind of story
are we trying to tell, what experience do we want to share with
the audience, what is the style in which we are going to present
this play? The answers to those questions of theatrical form are
always different, and so you change the color, angle, intensity
and movement of the light. For this project, the looks are “grand”,
“grander” and “grandest”, which for me implies a richness in the
coloration and a general level of brightness way above what might
be considered realistic. Everything is heightened. –Martha
Mountain Musical Director
Debbie Wicks LaPuma (Musical Director) is delighted to be working at the Kennedy Center with Youth and Family Programs once again. She has been working the Washington DC area for 8 years as a composer, music director, and performer with the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Imagination Stage, MetroStage, Signature Theatre, the University of Maryland, and American University. She is the recipient of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the Robert M. Golden Award, the N.E.A. New American Works Grant, and was a 2000 Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Musical Direction of a Resident Play for Studio Theatre's Crack Between the Worlds. Her work has been commissioned and has premiered at the Kennedy Center (Walking the Winds, The Magic Rainforest), Olney Theatre Center (The Fifth Season), Imagination Stage (The Magical Piñata, Ferdinand the Bull, and Sleeping Beauty: The Time Traveler and her New Millennium Prince). Ms. La Puma received her MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her BA from Stanford University. |
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