GABRIEL KAHANE THE AMBASSADOR WED 7:30PM // OCTOBER 22 John Tiffany, director Gabriel Kahane, vocals/piano/guitar/wurlitzer Christine Jones, set designer Rob Moose, electric guitars 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 COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES Jane Cox, lighting designer Bart Fasbender, sound designer Jane is a lighting designer based in Brooklyn. 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 Oregon 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 Prince & The Pauper, The Jazz Nativity, Breaking the Leonard Cohen 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; Sufjan Stevens, Nico He recorded and produced over 100 records before Muhly, Bryce Dessner; 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 Chicago’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