MARIE ANTIONETTE

Creative Team Bios

ANNIE G. LEVY — Director
Annie G. Levy is a theatre-maker and director whose work often revolves around mythology, historical turning points, and scientific breakthroughs. Her pieces include The CCC Project’s Space Rock | Door Stop, the story of the Hodges Meteorite and Tree Army; The Lativia Project’s Daughter of the Sun and The Persephone Project’s SIX SEEDS. Levy is a founding member of the World Wide Lab (WWL), an international director’s collective and theatre laboratory. With WWL, she has created work for the Irondale Center in Brooklyn, Teatro Due in Rome, Syros Institute on the Greek Island of Syros, Art Zone 453 in Taipei, Taiwan, and for the Superior Theatre Festival in Thunder Bay, Canada. She has also created and directed new work with theatre incubator warner | shaw, the Northwood Theatre Company, and various other theatres in her home town of NYC, including City Center, Dixon Place, HERE, The New Ohio Theatre, Theatre at the Tank, Fringenyc, and Access Theatre. Levy is the recipient of a FAIR assistantship at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center,  Paul Artist Residency at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Uptown/Downtown Artist. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab and an associate member of SDC. She serves as the artistic director of Emerson Stage at Emerson College. www.annieglevy.com

ALEX MOLLO — Scenic Designer
BFA ’23 Theatre Design & Technology. Emerson Stage credits: Good Breeding (Scenic Artist), Amanuensis, or the Miltons (Assistant Scenic Designer), Corduroy (Second Assistant Scenic Designer), Everybody (Paint Charge), and Interior of the Artist Without Her Sister (Assistant Scenic Designer). Emerson College credits: Musical Theatre Against the Grain’s The Fog Around Us (Scenic Designer, Paint Charge), and Musical Match Game (Scenic Designer, Paint Charge); The 40th Annual EVVY Awards (Paint Charge). A huge thank you my family, chosen and not, for always uplifting me and my designs. Thank you to my family in this production for making my first Emerson Stage design a fantastic experience.

EMILY GELDERMANN— Costume Designer
BFA ’22 Theatre Design & Technology. Emerson Stage credits: Marisol (Scenic Designer) and Amanuensis (Co-Costume Designer) Emerson College credits: The 40th EVVY Awards (Co-Scenic Designer); The 39th EVVY Awards (Stylist); Emerson Shakespeare Society’s Helen (Costume Designer); Musical Theatre Society’ Children of Eden (Costume Designer); and Kidding Around’s Mermaid Tales (Costume Designer). Thank you to mom and dad for always encouraging me to do what I love!

MIKAYLA BROWN — Lighting Designer
BFA ’22 Theatre Design & Technology. Emerson Stage credit: Marisol (Assistant Lighting Designer). Regional credits: 4.48 Psychosis (Co-Director and Projection Artist), The Who’s Tommy (Assistant Media Designer), Taming of the Shrew (Assistant Lighting Designer and Lead Electrician), Pericles (Assistant Lighting Designer and Lead Electrician), Voices: Past & Present (Media Designer), Beauty & The Beast (Assistant Projection Designer), Love & Information (Assistant Projection Designer).

ALEX KOCH –– Projections Designer
Broadway: Be More Chill (Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics Circle nominated); Irena’s Vow. Off-Broadway: Buyer & Cellar (North American Tour; Menier Chocolate Factory; Barrow Street; Rattlestick); Fireflies (Atlantic; Lortel nominated); I Was Most Alive With You (Playwrights Horizons); The Liquid Plain (Signature; Oregon Shakespeare Festival); GOODBAR (The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival). Regional: Indecent (Guthrie); The Who’s Tommy (Denver Center); Approval Junkie, Tiger Style (Alliance; Huntington Theatre Company); Stax, Marley (Baltimore Center Stage); Invisible Man (Court Theatre, Chicago; Studio Theatre, Washington DC; Huntington); ReEntry (Baltimore Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Roundhouse Theatre). Concert: The Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir.

NATHAN LEIGH — Sound Designer & Original Music
Nathan Leigh has designed and scored over 300 plays at theatres including New York Theatre Workshop (Nat Turner In Jerusalem), Red Bull Theatre (The Duchess of Malfi), Huntington Theatre (Skeleton Crew), Berkshire Theatre Group (Godspell), Stoneham Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2009 Strangers On A Train), and Central Square Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2010 The Hound of the Baskervilles). With Kyle Jarrow, Nathan co-created the musicals Big Money (WTF Boris Segall Fellowship 2008) and The Consequences (WHAT 2012). With the Liars and Believers ensemble, Nathan Leigh composed scores for Song of Songs, Icarus, and A Story Beyond.

JULIA WONKKA — Props Lead
BFA ’23 Theatre Design & Technology. Emerson Stage credits: This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Scenic Artist), Interior of the Artist Without Her Sister (Props Lead), Marisol (Assistant Scenic Designer), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Assistant Scenic Designer), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Assistant Props Lead). Emerson College credits: EVVY40 (Props Lead), Emerson Independent Video’s Man in the Box (Props Lead); and Mercutio Troupe’s The Painted Handgun (Scenic Designer).

KIRSTEN DAVIS — Stage Manager
BFA ’22 Stage & Production Management. Emerson Stage credits: This Golden Day (Stage Manager), Marisol (1st Assistant Stage Manager), Good Breeding (2nd Assistant Stage Manager), Working (Production Assistant), Corduroy (Production Supervisor). Other credit: Cloud Theatrics’ Antigone (Stage Manager). Thank you to my SM team, my parents, my partner Niamh, and Deb for all your support.

TED HEWLETT — Fight Director
Broadway: Shōgun. Off Broadway: Bill W. and Dr. Bob. New York: Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Mettawee River Theatre Company, and Lincoln Center Institute. Boston: The Huntington, SITI Company/ArtsEmerson, American Repertory Theater, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, and SpeakEasy Stage Company. Regional: Shakespeare & Company, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), The Kennedy Center, Syracuse Stage, Birmingham Theatre, and Berkshire Theatre Festival. Film: Hook and Army of Darkness. Television: “Brush Up Your Shakespeare.” Education: MFA, acting, Brandeis University. Other: faculty at Emerson College, Shakespeare & Company.

LEE FOREST — Dramaturg/Assistant Director
BFA ’22 Theatre. Emerson Stage credit: Interior of the Artist Without Her Sister (Company Manager). Emerson College directing credits: Arizona Rain (Directing 2), Or What You Won’t (Theyta), Of Wives and War: Three Shaw One Acts (EmShakes). Lee is also the Executive Director of EmShakes and Treasurer of Theyta. Lee is so grateful to their friends and family for their never-ending love and support!!

PRESLEE KROUT — Dramaturg/Assistant Director
BFA ’22 Theatre & Performance. Emerson Stage credit: Interior of The Artist Without Her Sister (Assistant Director). Emerson College credits: Emerson Independent Video (Director); EmShakes’ Humble Boy (Producer), The Fog Around Us (Producer), Six Characters In Search of an Author (Stepdaughter); Mercutio Troupe’s Stalling (Camille); and Kidding Around’s She Kills Monsters (Vera). Much love to Lee, Carter, and Allison for their generosity through the entire process and Annie for leading this grand and melodramatic flock.

ALLISON TAAFFE — Dramaturg/Assistant Director
MFA ’23 Applied Theatre. Allison Taaffe is a current graduate student pursuing her MFA in applied theater. She earned her BFA in Drama at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School and the Classical Studio. Formerly based in New York City, Allison has a passion for developing and devising new work, particularly by and about women. She has also worked as a teaching artist with Spotlight, a performing arts company in Peru that offers English language immersion through theater.

CARTER WHITE — Dramaturg/Assistant Director
BFA ’22 Stage & Production Management. Emerson Stage credits: The Late Wedding (Stage Manager), Going to California (Stage Manager), Marisol (Production Supervisor), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1st Asst. Stage Manager), Amanuensis, or the Miltons (1st Asst. Stage Manager), 10 Out of 12 (Assoc. Production Supervisor). Emerson College Credits: Girl in the Machine (Asst. Stage Manager). Semi-frequent producer and on-air host with WECB. Thank you to Annie, my fellow ADs, the fabulous SM team, my loving family and friends.