Heather Crocker LIGHTING DESIGN
Heather M. Crocker is a Manhattan-based lighting and projections designer that is thrilled to be returning to the Gene Frankel Theatre after designing Bodes De Sangre last August. She received her MFA in Theatre Design and Technology (Lighting/Projections Design) from the University of Missouri, Kansas City in 2015. Recent lighting design credits include; Bodas De Sangre (The Kinetic Theatre Company), The Mousetrap (Winnipesaukee Playhouse), The Robber's Bridegroom (Americana Theatre Company), The Sea Lady (Metropolitan Playhouse). www.hmcrockerdesign.com
Thomas DellaMonica (he/him/his) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Directing: Assistant to the playwright and director, I Was Most Alive With You (Playwrights Horizons). AD, I Was Most Alive With You (Huntington Theater). New York Acting: Richard III (The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park), Tribes (Barrow Street Theater). Regional Acting: 2020 Colorado Play Summit, Arkansas Rep, Huntington Theater, LA Theater-works, Open Circle, La Jolla Playhouse, and Center Theater Group. Proud coDa! Graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Kotryna Gesait DIRECTOR
Kotryna Gesait is from New York City. She received her BFA in acting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Her creative focus shifted to her longtime passion for writing when she moved to Melbourne in 2016. There she had the privilege of directing her own work. Melbourne credits include: The Nursery Web (Butterfly Club) The Cocoon (Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe) This-That (Butterfly Club), and the award-winning Party Snake (Midsumma Festival Melbourne, Adelaide Fringe, Sydney Fringe). She also directed Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre (The Borrow) and C’est La Mieur Apres Midi (Melbourne French Theatre).
Chantal "Chonty" Marks SET DESIGN
Chantal aims to collaboratively create memorable experiences that dramaturgically consider their socio-political context. Being an architect, her designs are often site-specific (challenging conventional theatre layouts), “honest” (with raw materials and exposed construction) and aim to have a sustainable, reuse plan from the outset. Living in Melbourne, Australia, she has established a dual career in theatre and architecture. In 2017, she met Kotryna Gesait, designing set and costumes for the premier of ‘Cocoon’ for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2019, she completed a Master of Design for Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, attended PQ19 in Prague, and collaborated on a work developed in Penang, Malaysia and performed in Ha Noi, Vietnam. In 2021, Chantal's design for ‘Mad Forest’ was one of four shortlisted for the Emerging Designer for Live Performance Award in the Australian Production Design Guild awards. www.chantalmarks.com
