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Ralph B. Peña

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Assistant Lighting Designer
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AMARA PAYTON MCNEIL is a New York-based, Hartford-raised, theatrical lighting designer. She is a member of IASTE USA 829, was the 2023 Howell Binkley Fellow, and is Cofounder of @houseandworks, an instagram account aimed at highlighting the work of women, trans, and non-binary folks in the lighting industry. Credits include Broadway: Romeo & Juliet (DMC), Parade (LD Intern); Regional/Off-Broadway: Freak the Mighty (Assoc. LD @ Cleveland Playhouse), Sweeney Todd (Asst. LD @ Hartford Stage), Galas (Assoc. LD @ Little Island), Goddess (Asst. LD @ The Public), King James (LD @ George Street Playhouse), Icons Gala (LD @ PAC NYC), Teeth (Assoc. LD @ New World Stages), Come From Away 2nd Nat Tour (Asst. LD).

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Associate Scenic Designer
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Scenic and Costume Designer; born and raised in NYC. Her experience spans more than 10 years. Her recent credits include Hell’s Kitchen Broadway, Hadestown National Tours, Harry Potter Attractions among other off Broadway and regional shows. Other than her own designs she has been the associate/ assistant to designers such as David Korins, Dots, Anna Louizos, Derek McLane, Clint Ramos, Alexander Dodge, Arnulfo Maldonado, Wilson Chin, Dede Ayite etc. She has also worked and designed with companies such as HB Harry Potter, Saks, Disney, Tiffany and Co. Hudson Bay Co., Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales along with pop up shops, pop up events, movie premiers, large events, weddings etc.

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Gregory Solomon
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MARK NELSON (Solomon) Long Wharf Theater: Underneath the Lintel (Connecticut Critics’Circle Award); My Name Is Asher Lev; The Most Beautiful Room in New York; A Doll’s House; Arms and the Man. Broadway: Angels in America (stepping in for Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn); Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love (Lincoln Center); Arthur Miller’s After the Fall (Roundabout Theater); A Few Good Men. Off-Broadway: Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Obie Award); The Orchard with Mikhail Baryshnikov; My Name Is Asher Lev; Timon of Athens (The Public.) Regional theater: The Lehman Trilogy (The Guthrie); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Hartford Stage); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theater D.C.); I Am My Own Wife (George Street Playhouse.) For director Sam Mendes, he toured four continents in The Winter’s Tale, and around the U.S in Cabaret. Mark teaches at Circle in the Square Theater School.
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