Production Staff

Production Manager: Roberto Di Donato

Intimacy Choreographer: Devin Franklin

Scene Shop Manager: Nicole Hankins

Costume Shop Manager: Sofia Perez

Electrics Shop Manager: Quentin Kurtz

Sound Shop Manager: Kerrie Lane

Lead Carpenter: Jaxon Meadows 

Lead Electrician: Quentin Kurtz

Assistant Lighting Designers: Lillie Wright, Natalie Doocy

Assistant Stage Managers: Addi James, Yuki Laffin, Rylee Lee

Assistant Lead Electricians: Lillie Wright, Natalie Doocy

Lighting Draftsperson: Madeleine Hebert

Light Board Programmer: Madeleine Hebert

Fight Captain: Kayamarie Roll

SCENE SHOP

Carpenters: Lydia Ball, Rosemary Burmester, Sydney Campbell, Nic Crews, Kirstie Fontanez, Scarlett Fried, Karlie King, Tyler Murray, Molly Nixon, Alexander K. Olsen, Elisabeth O'Neill, Charley Peck, Terin Reiber, Christopher Reinhardt, Grayce Roderick, Finn Smith, Audrey Voccio, Lucy Walter, Simon Welch, Elliott Wortley

PAINT SHOP

Scenic Artists: Hannah Carey, Princess Ibeh, Zach Snow

Paint Crew: Morgan Beck, Katie Carpenter, Kasey Dingee, Eliza Harbaugh, Adrien Legarth, Paige Marshall, Emma Mayes, Hope McQuiston, Elle Mitsch, Madison Russell, Morgan Sprouse, Nick Swope, Paige Weir, Sebastian Yobe-Bowen, Isabella Zallo 

PROP SHOP

Prop Artisans: Bear Alvarez, Iz Bawn, Logan DeLuca, Billy Elias, Sam Erwin, Gwyn Gaunt, Annaka Guerrero, Elizabeth Nease, Lucy Reinke, Eliza Russo, Dino Scott, Erin Stone, Gabriel Story, Katherine Telkamp, James Walkowski

COSTUME SHOP

Draper: Jackie Sokel

First Hands: Georgia Fried, Esther Yali-Williams, Madeline Hammons

Stitchers: Britney Cox, Georgia Fried, Madeline Hammons, Campbell Hogue, Jaimon Lovins, Sean McGlynn, Mei (Emersen) Miller, Allyn Simon, Jackie Sokel, Aiden Travis, Esther Yali-Williams, Ry Zornak

CRAFT SHOP

Crafts Artisans/Stitchers: Sarah Beth, Carissa Knitkowski

WARDROBE

Wardrobe Crew: Ben Griffithe, Nick Latham, PJ Pavot

ELECTRICS SHOP

Undergrad Shop Manager: Lillie Wright

Light Board Operators: Juniper George, Christopher Williams, Dora Gehrum

Deck Electricians: Ryan Ball, Nick Sklenar

Lighting Crew: Emma Archer, Lily Boulard, Devin Chen, Addie Collard, Jack Connelly, Ella Decker, Destery Gunther, Teigue Hardestry, Charlie Herrman, Cameron Hess, Amanda Johnson, Kharla Landrau, Chance Lane, Seth Langenkamp, Katie Mangan, Simon McFawn, Joey Negrete, Chris Penn-Hoffman, Jacob Simmons, Julia Smith, Tobby Tao, Aidan Timko

SOUND SHOP

Sound Board Operators: Ella Langiotti, Sofia Maggard, Talitha Thomas

Sound Crew: Erin Abney, Nick Foster, Kekoa Huihui-Andrew, Ayana Johnson, Sid McCarty, Michael Mylen, Kyler Rogers, Dan Rozin, Isabella Scanlan

PUBLICITY/FRONT OF HOUSE

Crew: Elizabeth Amstutz, Abby Covalin, Julia Germer, Abbie Hancock, Braven Jones, Madison Keally, Abbi Lindsey, Bella Martin, Alexander Olsen, Amy Pilgrim, Audrey Phipps, Alina Rosado, Anna Scott, Katherine, Soltis, Vivian Waye

BACKSTAGE RUN CREW

Crew: Zoe Zoller, Katy Price, Molly McHugh

ARTWORK BY

Phil Herrold and Georgia Fried

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Director, School of Theater: Merri Biechler

Assistant Director, School of Theater: Rachel Cornish

School of Theater Faculty and Staff

The SHAPe Clinic

SPECIAL THANKS

In making horror theatre, I have thought a lot about who the monster is in our story; thought about how humans name monsters so that the fear in their lives can bleed and maybe one day be defeated. When normality gets a hold of the word ‘monster’ they make it about the deviant, about the different, about threats to the mundane. The lie of normalcy makes the monstrous taboo - but there is no growth without taboo, without transgression. As trite as it may sound, our monsters live inside. Truthfully, I am Hero and Monster all at once, always. We all are. I have only scratched the surface of the monstrous, but I have learned that I love monstrosity. 

ShiningGirls is a monstrosity built by many many many artists. 

Please allow me a moment to praise and thank these beautiful monster makers:

Thank you to Millie, Kaitlin, Levi, joolz, Maggie, Josephine, and Tyler for letting me dump my brain out in your laps. Thank you for taking that gray matter and molding it into ghosts of anxiety, hope, and despair. You gave the breath of life to this play when I didn’t know it was suffocating. It lives because of you. God, I just love you guys. 

Thank you to Sid and Georgia and Maddie and Bear. From the beginning you each have looked me in the eye and said “yeah, this is going to work.” In fact, you assured me when I didn’t believe it. Thank you for cracking open the egg and making amazing art with all the rot inside it. 

Thank you to Chris for pouring yourself into Hank and loving him enough for us all. 

Thank you to Hannah at Bleeding Heart for being here and being down for the cause!

Thank you to all the little monsters in my cohort who cheered me on, rain or shine.

To Josie, Addi, Yuki, Rylee, and the whole cast of fifteen incredible actors - thank you for coming together as a team. You lifted these characters and this world off the page and loved them! You loved every gross, selfish, sorrowful ounce of them. You made this eternity of building and rehearsing a god damn joy. 

To the whole design team, faculty, and crew, thank you for being brave enough to give me a chance! You jumped into the unknown; thank you for your trust. 

To my husband, Owen, thank you for making me dinner every night. You take care of me so well. I couldn’t have survived this without you. 

Sid, again, thanks the fries and Dr. Pepper. I’ll get the next one.

To Jeanette, you took a chance on me. You changed my life. Thank you.

Oh and Maggie, whether you know it or not, you are all over this play. You’re in my prayers. 

My heart is so full because everyone who has embraced this monstrosity also embraced me. And in that embrace, here at the end of my graduate career, I not only survived, I thrived. 

Thank you. 

Molly