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GABRIEL KAHANE THE AMBASSADOR WED 7:30PM // OCTOBER 22

John Tiffany, director , vocals/piano//wurlitzer Christine Jones, set designer , electric Jane Cox, lighting designer Casey Foubert, electric bass/programming Joshua Higgason, video designer Ted Poor, drums Bart Fasbender, sound designer Alex Sopp, keyboards/vocals/flutes Brett Banakis, associate set designer Laura Lutzke, violin Mary-Susan Gregson, production stage manager Nathan Schram, viola Annie Tippe, assistant director Gabriel Cabezas, cello Mary Ellen Stebbins, associate lighting designer Brenndan McGuire, sound engineer

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Jane Cox, lighting designer Bart Fasbender, sound designer Jane is a lighting designer based in . Exciting Bart Fasbender’s New York credits include Bloody Bloody theater projects last season included Machinal (for which Andrew Jackson (Bernard Jacobs and The Public), she was nominated for a Tony and a Drama Desk award); Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Storefront All the Way; Dinner with Friends and Color Purple in Church and Port Authority (Atlantic Theater Company); London. In the previous season, Jane was awarded Lonely, I’m Not and Mr. and Mrs. Fitch (Second Stage the Henry Hewes Design Award for her work on The Theatre); The Good Mother, Burning and Russian Flick at Playwrights Horizons, as well as a Drama Desk Transport (The New Group); The Long Shrift, The nomination for her work on Sondheim’s Passion at CSC. Revisionist, Ascuncion and The Aliens (Rattlestick), Apple Upcoming projects include Sondheim’s Allegro; Head Cove (Women’s Project); Three Changes and Drunken Over Heels (a new musical by Jeff Whitty); Love and Sex City (Playwrights Horizons); Graceland (LCT3); A Body at Lincoln Center, ToasT with Lemon Anderson at the of Water (Primary Stages). Regional: The Guthrie, The Public Theater; an opera of R.U.R. at the Prague Opera, Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York and Hamlet in London with Benedict Cumberbatch. Opera Stage and Film, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire designs include Lucia di Lammermoor at Sydney Opera Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theater, Center Theatre House and Houston Grand Opera and Don Giovanni Group (Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre), at New York City Opera. Jane designs regularly for the TheatreWorks Hartford, Virginia Shakespeare, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, and has been a member Playwrights Theater and Two River Theater. of the Monica Bill Barnes dance company for fifteen years. She also teaches classes in light in artistic expression, Mary-Susan Gregson, production stage manager theater design and collaboration at Princeton University, Mary-Susan Gregson has stage managed over 25 and has a working relationship with the Tisch Design productions for The New Victory Theater beginning Department at NYU. with the Opening Celebration; she also opened the THE AMBASSADOR

New 42nd season production coordinating for Lincoln her debut at The Metropolitan Opera with her design Center Festival including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker for Rigoletto, set in 1960s Las Vegas. Her Broadway Retrospective, Peony Pavilion, the Druid, Harold Pinter, credits include Hands on a Hardbody; On a Clear Day; Brian Friel, and Beckett Festivals. At BAM: Dance Africa Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination); The Green Bird 35th with John Malkovich, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, Tan with director Julie Taymor (Drama Desk Nomination); Dun’s The Gate, Sufjan Steven’s BQE, and currently and Everyday Rapture starring Sherie-Renee Scott. Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador. New York: 24 Hour Jones has designed sets for Coraline, adapted from Play Festival, New Island Festival on Governors Island, Neil Gaiman’s popular book with music by Stephen Divinamente Festival, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Merritt; The Book of Longing, based on the poems of & The Pauper, The Jazz Nativity, Breaking the with music by Philip Glass (Lincoln Code, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. For NJPAC: TD Center Festival); The Onion Cellar (Elliot Norton Award), Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival, line producer for which she co-created with director Marcus Stern and The NJ Hall of Fame. Regional: Princeton Lewis Center for Dresden Dolls; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare the Arts Dance Festivals, Montclair Peak Performances, in the Park); Burn This starring Ed Norton, Catherine McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep, Williamstown Theater Keener, Ty Burrell and Dallas Roberts (Signature Festival, Mass Moca, The Huntington, and the White Theatre); and True Love, for which she created The House. Tours: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte, Zipper space, infamous for its use of car seats in the Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus and Forbidden Christmas audience. Jones has designed numerous operas, in- starring Baryshnikov, St. Studios and The Duke. cluding The Elephant Man (Minnesota Opera); Lucia de Lammermoor (New York City Opera); and Guilio Joshua Higgason, video designer Cesare (Houston Grand Opera). Her designs were Joshua Higgason’s recent designs include Radiolab’s featured in the 2008 exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating Apocalyptical tour (video and scenic for Workhorse a Century of Women Designers for Live Performance Design Co; WNYC); Platonov; Or the Disinherited at Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts. She has (Video and Scenic; The Kitchen, NYC and La Jolla lectured at Princeton University and teaches at New Playhouse); Powder Her Face (Video; New York City York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Opera); Ich, KurbisGeist (Video; Big Dance Theater); Sontag: Reborn (Scenic; The Builder’s Association); Brenndan McGuire, sound engineer World Of Wires (video and lighting; The Kitchen, Poland Brenndan McGuire studied at the SOHN Institute for tour, France tour, ICA-Boston); Bellona - Destroyer of Audio and Electronics and has been involved heavily Cities (video; The Kitchen, France, ICA). Video engi- with live and studio sound production since 1988. neering for Planetarium (BAM; , Nico He recorded and produced over 100 records before Muhly, ; designer: Deborah Johnson for becoming physically ill from the effects of multitrack Candystations); Sufjan Stevens’ Age of Adz (Euro Tour; recording in the early 2000s, and now continues to mix Designer: Candystations). He has taught interactive for live concerts by such artists as Sufjan Stevens, Feist, media workshops at Princeton, Duke, NYU, Bennington, Patti Smith, Lucius, Bahamas, Sam Roberts, James and LIU: MFA. Vincent McMorrow and Gabriel Kahane, to name a few. Brenndan lives off the grid in a refurbished 1969 Christine Jones, set designer Airstream trailer and is a huge proponent of nano homes, Christine Jones is a Tony Award-winning set designer doing design and fabrication of alternative housing, and the artistic director of the critically acclaimed custom furniture and vehicles. Theatre for One, a portable private performing arts space for one actor and one audience member. For Mary Ellen Stebbins, associate lighting designer director John Tiffany she designed Let the Right One Mary Ellen Stebbins is a New York City-based lighting In, which recently closed in London. She directed the designer. Recent work: Columbine’s Paradise Theater sensational immersive nightclub dining experience (eighth blackbird - tour), The Wedding Singer (New Queen of the Night, which New York Magazine has York Film Academy), The Traveling Imaginary (Orbiting called the “Hottest nightlife experience in town.” Her Human Circus - tour), The Seven (Columbia Stages), set design for American Idiot, A Punk Rock Musical On the Verge (NewRep). NYC credits include work directed by Michael Mayer won the Tony Award for with Gotham Chamber Opera; Sightline; Atlantic Arts best set design in 2009, and in 2012, Jones made Foundation; Columbia Stages; Target Margin; Waterwell; THE AMBASSADOR

Heiress; Royal Family; and Ritual Theatre. Regional Sphinx Organization and ’s Citizen Musician credits include eighth blackbird; New Repertory Theatre; movement. Peabody Essex Museum; Bristol Valley Theater; UCSD Dept. of Music; Princeton University; and Interrobang. Casey Foubert, bass/programming Mary Ellen is the resident lighting designer for the Casey Foubert is a producer, engineer, songwriter Encounters Ensemble at the Peabody Essex Museum and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Madison, and also for Sightline Theater. She received the 2011 Wisconsin. In addition to his work with Gabriel Kahane USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award and was a he has worked with Sufjan Stevens, Richard Swift, 2009 Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellow. David Bazan, Damien Jurado, and many others. She holds an MFA from Boston University and an AB from Harvard College. Laura Lutzke, violin Laura Lutzke enjoys a musically versatile career, with a Annie Tippe, assistant director passion for solo playing, chamber music and new ways Annie Tippe is thrilled to be working with John and of making music. She has performed and taught at the Gabriel on The Ambassador. Directing credits include Caramoor, Bowdoin, and Birdfoot international music Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet (The Bushwick Starr); festivals. She also participates regularly in the Cervo Aaron/Marie (w. Rachel Chavkin, Under the Radar Chamber Music festival in Italy, Saronic Chamber Music Incoming! Series; PRELUDE Festival; Ars Nova ANT Festival in Poros, Greece, Lake Tahoe SummerFest in Fest), I Heard Sex Noises (ANT Fest), Debutante California, and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove. (Bernie Wohl Center; ANT Fest), A Quiet Sip of Coffee She is a current member of the critically acclaimed (Summerworks Festival & Wildside Festival, Canada), American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), The Fall of Hotel Mudafier(SWIFT) and Dinosaur Play based in New York City. She has collaborated with (HERE Arts). She was the associate director for the Gabriel Kahane, Johann Johannsson, , TEAM’s production of Mission Drift, Australia/Hong Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Yann Kong Tour (dir. Rachel Chavkin). Williamstown Theater Tiersen, among others. Laura earned her bachelor of directing intern 2012, and a director for HERE Arts’ music and master of music degrees from the Juilliard Smith & Tinker Writers Group 2013. School as a student of Lewis Kaplan, and she has most recently completed a second master of music with MUSICIANS distinction with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Gabriel Cabezas, cello Gabriel Cabezas, “an intense player who connects to Rob Moose, guitars music naturally, without artifice, and brings a singing Rob Moose has emerged in the last decade as one of line to the cello” (The Oregonian), is one of America’s the most sought after instrumentalists, arrangers and most sought after young musicians. In the 2014-15 producers of his generation. As violinist and guitarist, season, Cabezas tours as part of New York’s yMusic; Moose has toured with Antony & the Johnsons, Sufjan collaborates with the musicians of the Marlboro Festival; Stevens, , and Glen tours Japan with violist Nobuko Imai; and plays with Hansard. In 2011, he joined , writing arrange- Edgar Meyer and the San Francisco-based LINES ments and recording strings for the group’s sophomore Ballet. Cabezas has appeared as soloist with America’s album. Highlights of that experience included sold-out finest orchestras, including those of , concerts at , Wembley Arena and Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Los Angeles, , the Sydney Opera House, appearances on Saturday Pittsburgh, and Nashville. This season he performs Night Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and the Colbert with the Amarillo Symphony, Decatur Symphony and Report, a gold record, and two Grammy wins, for “Best Grant Park Orchestra. He also appears on Chicago’s New Artist” and “Best Alternative Album.” As violinist Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. Cabezas studied and violist, Moose is an active recording artist, having at the Curtis Institute of Music with Carter Brey, and is played on over 200 albums by artists ranging from a winner of the 2014 Astral Artists National Auditions, to to , as joining their roster of musicians this season. Cabezas well as appearances on Grammy Award-winning albums is involved with Midori’s Partners in Performance, the by and Loudon Wainwright III. Equally in THE AMBASSADOR demand as an arranger, his work has been performed Alex Sopp, keyboards or recorded by , The National, tUnE- Alex Sopp is the flutist of The Knights, yMusic and yArDs, Interpol, St. Vincent, , Trey NOW Ensemble, and frequently performs with the Anastasio, and Punch Brothers. , Silk Road Ensemble and International Contemporary Ensemble. She has Ted Poor, drums recently made guest appearances with the Mariinsky Upon graduating from the Eastman School of Music Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in 2003, drummer Ted Poor moved to New York City, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Alex made where he has made a deep impression on the jazz and her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with the New improvised music scene. Modern Drummer describes York Youth Symphony and was featured as a soloist his playing as “adventurous, truly dynamic, and forward- with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of thinking.” Jazz Review writes, “Ted has an uncanny David Robertson. She has commissioned, premiered, ability to shape the music and a refreshingly unique, recorded and closely collaborated with the most exciting organic approach to playing the drums.” Ted has toured composers and songwriters of our time including Nico the world over and is a regular member of many bands, Muhly, , Philip Glass, Jonsí, , including those of Grammy award winning trumpeter Oswaldo Golijov, Gabriel Kahane, , Sufjan Cuong Vu, guitarist Ben Monder, Todd Sickafoose, and Stevens, The National, Björk, Dirty Projectors, the Respect Sextet. He leads several projects of his and St. Vincent. In addition to her musical adventures, own including Mt. Varnum, Triggerfish, and the Ted Poor Alex is active as a visual artist and has done artwork Quartet. As an in-demand sideman, Ted has appeared for several albums and websites as well as private on dozens of recordings and has shared the stage with commissions. Alex is a native of St. Croix, US Virgin many world renowned artists such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Islands, and completed her education at The Juilliard Bill Frisell, Myra Melford, Eric Revis, Kenny Werner, School. Chris Potter, Shara Worden, Ben Street, Aaron Parks, Maria Schneider, and Ralph Alessi. Ted is currently an artist in residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Nathan Schram, violin Nathan Schram is the violist of the Bryant Park Quartet as well as a member of the Carnegie Hall-trained ensemble Decoda. He has been hailed by as an “elegant soloist” with a sound “devotional with its liquid intensity.” Nathan explores other musical interests by playing with an array of adventurous ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, ACME, New York Baroque Incorporated, Le Train Bleu, and the Wordless Orchestra. He is also a founding member of the jazz string trio Speed Bump, an ensemble devoted to impro- visation and performing their own compositions. Nathan is the founding director of Musicambia, a New York- based initiative establishing a creative network of music conservatories within prisons and jails. In addition to their work in the US, Musicambia has collaborated with projects in Venezuela and Scotland.