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(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 Theater
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!”
TRACY CHRISTENSEN
(
Costume Coordinator
and Additional Designs
) Recent design projects
include
Luv
at Guild Hall in East Hampton,
Eternal Equinox
at 59E59 Street,
City of Angels
at Goodspeed Opera House
, Skippy Jon Jones
and
The Ohmies
off-Broadway
, Curtains
at
Papermill Playhouse
, Company
with the New
York Philharmonic,
Souvenir
on Broadway
, Blue
Horizons
, the new whale and dolphin show for
Sea World in Orlando and San Diego, and
Annie
Get Your Gun
at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival,
starring Patti LuPone. Also:
Richard III
and
Macbeth
for the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis
,
Souvenir
at LA’s Brentwood Theater (Ovation
Award),
Seussical
for Theatreworks USA (Lortel
nomination)
, Regin
a at The Kennedy Center,
and five seasons with the Chautauqua Theater
Company. Faculty member: SUNY Purchase for
costume design. www.tracychristensen.com
MICHAEL HORSLEY
(
Musical Director
) is
pleased to be The Charles W. & Janet T. Mueller
Conductor
for
Thoroughly Modern Millie
. He
is happy to return to The Muny for his 19th
season. Some of the shows he has conducted at
The Muny include
42nd Street
(1996, 2009),
Godspell
,
White Christmas
(2000, 2006),
Damn
Yankees
(1998, 2010),
Sleeping Beauty
,
Singin’ in
the Rain
and many more. National tours include:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
,
Chicago
,
Cinderella
,
White Christmas
,
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
.
Other regional theatre credits:
Roman Holiday
at
the Guthrie Theatre,
White Christmas
at Boston’s
Wang Theatre, at Detroit’s Fox and at Toronto’s
Sony Center;
On A Clear Day You Can See
Forever
at the Music Theatre of Wichita;
Fiddler
on the Roof
at AMT San Jose;
A Chorus Line
at
the Pioneer Theatre;
The Full Monty
at North
Carolina Theatre in Raleigh.
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