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Creative Team Bios

SARIVA GOETZ (she/her) — Music Director/Conductor
Sariva has worked on numerous Broadway shows including ten years as the assistant conductor/keyboardist for the original Broadway production of Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include Aladdin, Sister Act, Mamma Mia, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Miss Saigon, City of Angels, Secret Garden, Once on This Island, and Sweeney Todd.  Off-Broadway and regional credits include Splendora, The Jerusalem Syndrome, Empire the Musical, and two productions of Really Rosie, one directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and the other by author Maurice Sendak.  She has worked at major regional venues across the country including the Cleveland Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, Bucks County Playhouse, and La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.  Sariva has coached hundreds of musical theatre performers for auditions, shows, and cabarets, and is currently a member of the musical theatre faculty here at Emerson.  Previous Emerson Stage credits include Stardust, Lucky Stiff, and Spring Awakening.  Sariva holds a Master of Arts from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Arizona. SarivaGoetz.com

CHRISTOPHER SHIN — Choreographer
Christopher Shin is currently on faculty at Emerson College as Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre Choreography. He has performed professionally for nearly two decades. Broadway/Tour: Disney’s Mary Poppins, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House (42nd Street, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Arena Stage (Anything Goes), Maltz Jupiter Theatre (South Pacific), Walnut Street Theatre (Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story, The Producers), Kansas City Starlight (Miss Saigon), Sacramento Music Circus (La Cage aux Folles, The King and I), Gulfshore Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Ocean State Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Arkansas Rep, Merry Go Round Playhouse. Recent Choreography credits include: Newsies (Zilker Theatre Company), Annie, Grease (TexArts). Upcoming: Choreographer for Emerson Stage’s production of: Bat Boy (Fall 2023). MFA in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University, BFA in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

LUCIANA STECCONI — Scenic Designer
Luciana Stecconi’s previous designs for Emerson Stage include Working and Spring Awakening. She has designed for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, Mosaic Theater, Theater J, Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Georgetown University, Catholic University, American University, Imagination Stage, and many more. She’s the Assistant Professor in Scenic Design at Emerson College. Stecconi holds an MFA in design from Brandeis University and is a member of USA Local 829.

LAUREN CORCUERA — Props Lead
Lauren is a Boston-area theater technician/designer and an Emerson alum who enjoys working with props, paint, and wardrobe. Emerson Stage prop credits include: Stupid F###ing Bird, Next to Normal, Into the Woods, and Old Jake’s Skirts. Other select prop credits: Breath and Imagination, Little Shop of Horrors, Murder on the Orient Express, The Cake, The Treasurer, Be Here Now, The Last Five Years, Mr. Parent, The Light, Fabulation, or…., and Preludes (Lyric Stage Company); Barefoot in the Park, Tiny Beautiful Things, Seared, Think of Me Tuesday, Mr. Fullerton Between the Sheets, Grand Horizons (Gloucester Stage Company); Circle Mirror Transformation (Brandeis University); Pippin (Reagle Music Theater); Chicken & Biscuits (Front Porch Arts Collective). Lauren is also currently the Assistant Prop Director for Emerson Stage and wants to thank all of the great students in the shop and on the various productions.

CHLOE MOORE — Costume Designer
Chloe is a Boston-based educator, costume maker and designer for Opera, Theatre and Dance. Recent work includes credits with Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston University’s School of Theatre and Opera Institute, Boston Early Music Festival, A.R.T., Boston Conservatory at Berklee, as well as American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin.  Since earning her MFA in Costume Design from BU in 2020, she has served as Costume Fellow and Professor at Shenandoah University and as Faculty in BU’s School of Theatre.  ChloeMooreDesigns.com

HANNAH FORSBERG (she/her) — Co-Lighting Designer
BFA ’24 Theatre Design/Technology. Emerson Stage credits: This Golden Day (Sound Board Operator), Spring Awakening (Assistant Lead Electrician), The Late Wedding (Assistant Lighting Designer), Next to Normal (Lead Electrician), and Old Jake’s Skirt (Lead Electrician). Thanks to my family, friends, and advisors for their ongoing support!

SCOTT PINKNEY — Co-Lighting Designer
Broadway: Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award winning Torch Song Trilogy. Off-Broadway: Vincent, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Majestic Kid, Divine Fire, Nymph Errant and The World is Made of Glass. Regional Theatres: The Guthrie, Denver Center, The Huntington, George Street Playhouse, TheatreVirginia, Olney Theatre. At Barrington Stage (named an Associate Artist in 2014), more than 35 productions including American Son, Best of Enemies, Whipping Man and Follies. International: ART and Kiss of the Spider Woman for Singapore Rep, and Concerts for Club Mohamed-Ali in Cairo. Boston: Ulysses on Bottles (IRNE Nomination); Israeli Stage, Comedy of Errors; Commonwealth Shakespeare, (Norton Award), Don Giovanni; NEC Opera, Freud’s Last Session for New Rep, and many productions for Emerson Stage. Scott is Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the College Light Opera Company on Cape Cod. He serves as a Professor of Lighting Design at Emerson.

SARAH MILLER — Sound Designer
BFA ’24 Theatre Design/Technology. Emerson Stage credits: The Secret in the Wings (Production Sound Engineer), Are You Someone To Somebody? A New Devised Piece (A1), The Spitfire Grill (Production Sound Engineer), The Wolves (Sound Designer), Into the Woods (A2), RAGE (Sound Designer), Next to Normal (Production Sound Engineer), and The Late Wedding (Assistant Sound Designer). Emerson College credits: RareWorks Theatre Company’s Feeding the Moonfish (Sound Designer) and sub (Associate Sound Designer). Outside credits: Lyric Stage Company’s The Great Leap (Assistant Sound Designer) and Boston Conservatory’s Into the Woods (Assistant Sound Designer). Thanks to their friends and family for their support and love

CARLY ZAMOST (she/her) — Stage Manager
BFA ’23 Stage and Production Management. Emerson Stage credits: Old Jake’s Skirts (Production Supervisor), Next to Normal (1st Assistant Stage Manager), Baltimore (Production Supervisor), Spring Awakening (Assistant Production Supervisor), Everybody (2nd Assistant Stage Manager), Men on Boats (2nd Assistant Stage Manager), Squeaky Fromme Love Song (Assistant Production Supervisor), Flora the Red Menace (Production Assistant). Emerson College credits: 25th Annual…Spelling Bee (Stage Manager) and Urinetown (Stage Manager). Other credits: NHSI Theatre Arts program at Northwestern University (Assistant Production Manager). Upcoming credits: Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert at Tanglewood (Stage Manager) and Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert at Symphony Hall (Assistant Stage Manager). Carly would like to thank her family, friends, and the entire company for their unconditional love and support. A special thank you to Deb Acquavella for her positive encouragement and for always believing in me over the last 4 years at Emerson.

MARISSA FRIEDMAN (she/her) — Senior Dramaturg
Marissa is a dramaturg, educator, and arts communicator. She is an Affiliated Faculty member in Emerson College’s Department of Performing Arts and serves as the Dramaturgy Advisor for Emerson Stage. Marissa graduated with an MFA in Dramaturgy and Theater Studies from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, and received her BA in Historical Studies from Bard College. While at the Institute, she dramaturged the world premiere productions of Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews’ Witness Uganda, directed by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus, and David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette, directed by Tony Award-winner Rebecca Taichman. As a dramaturg, Marissa has worked at: Jewish Plays Project, Fresh Ink Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, the American Repertory Theater, the Moscow Art Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, the Atlantic Theater Company, Westport Country Playhouse, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Bard College. She is also the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT. Previous Emerson Stage advising includes: The Wolves, The Spitfire Grill, Old Jake’s Skirts, Next to Normal, As You Like It, RAGE, Three Romances for the Unwell and Otherwise, and Into the Woods.

RAINIER PEARL-STYLES (she/they) — Dramaturg
MFA ’23 Theatre Education/Applied Theatre. Emerson Stage credit: The Late Wedding (Assistant Director). Other credits: MIT Shakespeare Ensemble’s Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It (Director); San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s A Winter’s Tale (dramaturg); 13 Pratt Theatre Co-op (Founding Member, Devisor). Thanks to Marissa, Ilana, and company for taking such good care of this story. rainier-pearl-styles.com

SEAN PATRICK GIBBONS (he/him/his) — Intimacy Director
Sean is a certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators mentored under Claire Warden and Cha Ramos. Sean is also an Actor, Voice and Movement specialist, Theatre Educator, and Director. He is also in the process of becoming a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium through Kent State. He has performed Off-Broadway and in various regional theatres across the country including Boston Playwrights Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Scranton Shakespeare Festival, Bridge Repertory Theatre, Atlantic Rep, Theatre Lab, and many more. A member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA eligible, he has also worked and taught at the International Theatre and Dance Project in Greece, University of Scranton, Brandeis University, Wellesley College, American International College, Florida Atlantic University, Harvard University, and Boston Theatre Company. Sean holds an MFA in Acting from Florida Atlantic University, and two undergraduate degrees in Acting and Theatre Education from Marywood University. Sean is also on the admissions recruitment team for the American Musical Dramatic Academy, and on the theatre faculty of the Boston Arts Academy where he teaches Acting and Voice and Movement for the Actor. To learn more about consent-forward advocacy for artists: www.seanpatrickgibbons.com

RAY GOETZ (he/him) — Gender Consultant
Ray Goetz is a Gender Consultant based out of the greater New York area.  He has a degree in Gender Studies from Hunter College in Manhattan.  Since graduating he has worked in the non-profit sector for a few different social service agencies.  He spent several years working with LGBTQIA+ youth doing a lot of educational outreach.  His education, previous work, and lived experience as a transgender person is what led him to start his own Gender Consulting business. He educates others in a variety of fields on issues surrounding gender and the trans community in the hopes of allowing them to better serve the needs of the transgender population.  He is very grateful for the opportunity to have been involved with this production as it has allowed him to combine his passion for advocacy and education with his love for theater.  If you’re interested in learning more about what his business has to offer please visit his website at raynbowconsulting.com.