LIMBER, A LOVE STORY

Creative Team Bios

ADIN WALKER (they/them) — Director
Adin Walker is a frequent collaborator as movement director + associate director with the internationally-touring dance, puppetry, and climate-justice focused Phantom Limb Company, whose production Falling Out about the 2011 tsunami and radiation disaster in Fukushima premiered in BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Walker recently directed the world premieres of Yilong Liu’s PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute with the New Conservatory Theater Center and Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Data Queen for Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival, both in San Francisco. Walker was recently in residence at Dartmouth University with New York Theatre Workshop directing Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel’s Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams, which was also presented as part of the 2024 Breaking the Binary Festival with Playwrights Horizons in NYC. Other recent directing includes L M Feldman’s Grace, or the Art of Climbing and Allison Gregory’s Not Medea (both in Jersey City), and Roger Q. Mason’s The White Dress (NYC). Walker was the associate choreographer to Yehuda Hyman for the first regional production of Paula Vogel’s Indecent at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN, following its Broadway premiere, and has since choreographed multiple productions of Indecent with Artist’s Repertory Theater and Profile Theater in Portland, OR, and with Chautauqua Theater Company in NY. Walker is currently completing a PhD in Performance Studies at Stanford University and Walker’s writing on queer and trans performance and cinema can be found in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Theatre Topics, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and TDR: The Drama Review (forthcoming). www.adinwalker.com

L M Feldman –– Playwright
L M Feldman is a queer, feminist, GNC playwright, professor, and circus artist. They make work that is brave, kinetic, epic, and intimate. L has been nominated for the Herb Alpert Award, Wasserstein Prize, Steinberg Award, Blackburn Prize, and New York Innovative Theatre Award. They’re ongoingly grateful to have been an alum of the Yale School of Drama, an Orbiter 3 member, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries winner, a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, and currently a Venturous Playwright Fellow. Their body of work can be found at www.laurenfeldman.com or www.newplayexchange.org.

ECHO LU — Scenic Designer
BFA ’25 Theatre Design & Technology. Emerson Stage credits: Edward Tulane (Prop Artist), Little Women (Scenic Assistant, Cabaret (Props Assistant).

KAREN TORENTO (she/her) — Costume Designer
BFA ’25 Theatre Design & Technology, Costume Design Concentration. Emerson Stage credits: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Assistant Costume Designer). Film/Other credits: Opulence (Costume Designer), Wallaby Drew’s Wild Adventures (Costume Designer), Wandering Star (Costume Designer), The 43rd Annual EVVY Awards (Wardrobe Stylist). Thanks to family and friends for the support!

RYAN TSE (he/him) — Lighting Designer
BFA ’26 Theatre Design & Technology. Emerson Stage credits: POTUS (Production Electrician), Edward Tulane (Production Sound Engineer), Second Star to the Right (Assistant Sound Designer), 16 Winters (Assistant Lighting Designer), Bonnets (Assistant Lead Electrician), How We Got On (Assistant Production Sound Engineer), NewFest ShortWorks (Production Assistant), Mary, Sweet Mary (Assistant Lead Electrician), and The Spitfire Grill (Production Assistant). Emerson College credits: Kidding Around’s Barry and the Bear (Lighting Designer) and Almost, Maine (Lighting Designer). Thank you to everyone to helped work on this show!

JO WILLIAMS (they/them) — Sound Designer
BFA ’25 Theatre Design & Technology. Emerson Stage credits: Head Over Heels (Sound Designer), Amour (Production Sound Engineer), Imogen Says Nothing (Production Sound Engineer), Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Production Sound Engineer), 16 Winters (Production Sound Engineer), The Impracticality of Modern Day Mastodons (Sound Designer), Bonnets (Production Electrician), How We Got On (Asst. Lighting Designer), Little Women (Production Sound Engineer). Emerson College credits: Rareworks’ Five Times in One Night (Sound Designer), MTS’s Dogfight (Sound Designer), EmShake’s Lord of the Flies (Lighting Designer). Other credits: Audio Engineer at Central Square Theatre for SPACE; Her Portmanteau; and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.

LAUREN CORCUERA — Props Lead
As a Boston-area theater technician/designer and an Emerson alum, Lauren enjoys working with props, paint, and wardrobe. Emerson Stage prop credits: Old Jake’s Skirts, Cabaret, BONNETS: How Ladies…Induced to Murder, the Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Other prop credits: A Winter’s Tale (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Assassins, Urinetown (Lyric Stage); Seared, Grand Horizons (Gloucester Stage Company); Chicken & Biscuits (Front Porch Arts Collective); Next to Normal (Front Porch / Central Square Theater); Sweeney Todd (Moonbox Productions). Lauren is 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.

HALLE HART (she/they) — Stage Manager
BFA ’25 Stage & Production Management. Select Emerson Stage credits: Imogen Says Nothing (Production Supervisor); …Mastodons (1st ASM); NewFest 2024 (Company Manager); Little Women (Associate pSupe); Mary, Sweet Mary (2nd ASM); Cabaret (Assistant pSupe); Baltimore (Production Assistant). Select Emerson College credits: emShakes Theatre Co. (Production Manager); Kidding Around’s Snow Angel (SM); RareWorks’ How Macy Survived…(SM); emShakes’ The Big Meal (SM). Thank you to Shae, Nathan, and Matti for your kindness, patience, and brilliance. You are my heroes. All my love to Susan, Ethan, and Willow. For my mom, as always.

JENNA THOMAS (she/her) — Production Supervisor
BFA ’26 Stage & Production Management. Emerson Stage credits: Paris (PA), How We Got On (Asst. pSupe), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (2nd ASM), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (1st ASM). Emerson College theatre credits: Jelly’s Last Jam (Co SM). MTAG’s Tanner Maverick’s Book of Sound (SM). Other credits: Prague Shakespeare Company SSI’s Measure for Measure (SM) and The Comedy of Errors (SM). Thank you to my family, and pSupe team, Amit and Leo, for being rockstars! Thank you Katie Meade and a special thanks Tim Sullivan for his support and wisdom. Instagram: @jennaskindafunny

KARLI FISHER (she/her) — Dramaturg
BFA ’25 Theatre & Performance. Emerson College credits: Mercutio Troupe’s In the Waiting Room (Playwright and Assistant Director); Musical Theatre Against the Grain’s Hot Dam! (Very Curious Citizen); Rareworks’ Paul Bunyan Is My Boyfriend (Assistant Director); and Musical Theatre Against the Grain’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona Lisa Peretti). A massive thank you to L and Adin for welcoming me into this immensely fulfilling process, and to Marissa for her guidance! karlifisher.com