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P I 303.478.4893

E I aprilmhickman@outlook.com

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April M. Hickman is a costume designer, stylist, and costume illustrator originally from Denver CO. Her most recent and first film credit, The Promotion, was a short film she received a nomination for Best Costume Design by the LA International Film Festival.  She recently received her M.F.A. in costume design at Yale School of Drama (20’) where some of her credits include Hamlet, Pivot and Seven Spots on the Sun. Other credits include, The Plot a world premiere by Will Eno, directed by Oliver Butler (Yale Repertory Theatre), the feels…(kms), Is God Is and Agreste (Drylands) (Yale Cabaret).  April previously lived in Chicago IL and Washington DC, where she worked as the resident costume design assistant at the Goodman Theatre and was a costume fellow turned costume design assistant at Arena Stage.  She has assisted several prominent costume designers, including Emily Rebholz, Jess Goldstein, Ilona Somogyi, Paul Tazewell, and Catherine Zuber. She was awarded the William R. Kenan Jr. Costume Design Fellowship at the Kennedy Center in 2014 and the Leo Lerman Fellowship in 2020. April received her B.F.A. in costume design from University of North Carolina School of the Arts where she designed Topdog/Underdog, Detective Story, and Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Intentions.  Upcoming production (virtual) Capricorn 29 a co-production with The Tank and Post Theatrical. 

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P I 203.808.0970

E I yunzhuzeng@gmail.com

W I yunzhuzeng.com/about

Yunzhu Zeng(she/her) is a Costume Illustrator and Designer comes from China. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in costume design(’20)as well as a BFA from Beijing Dance Academy in costume and makeup design.

She has worked in both American and China theaters as a costume Illustrator and designer. She is committed to collaboration, cultural diversity and authenticity. She recent Illustration and Costume designs include: A Raisin in the Sun (Yale Repertory Theatre), Locusts (Yale School of Drama), Titus Andronicus (Yale School of Drama), Where Is My Maple Town ( Theater Row).

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P I 773.822.1803

E I emma.e.deane@gmail.com

W I emmadeane.com

Emma Deane is an Indigenous (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation) lighting designer based in NYC. Her recent credits include Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta at Yale Repertory Theater and Jeremy O. Harris' YELL: A "DOCUMENTARY" OF MY TIME HERE. Recent credits include Reykjavík, Trouble in Mind, shakespeare’s as u like it and Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama); Little Boy/Little Man, Burn Book, The Light Fantastic, This Sweet Affliction, Mud, The Guadalupes, WOLF/ALICE and Camille: A Tearjerker (Yale Cabaret). Chicago credits include work with Court Theatre, The Goodman, Albany Park Theater Project, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Northlight Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Victory Gardens, Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, The Actors Gymnasium, The House Theater, Filament Theatre, Interrobang Theatre Project, Akvavit Theatre, Wildclaw, North Park University and The Gannon Center for Women and Leadership. She holds a MFA from Yale School of Drama and a BA in English from Loyola University Chicago.

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P I 206.669.1435

E I eca@evancanderson.com

W I evancanderson.com

Evan Anderson is a lighting designer and musician. Originally from Bainbridge Island, WA, he currently resides in New Haven, CT. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and the University of Washington and a company member of CabinFever. His work has been seen on 3 continents and frequent collaborators include zoe | juniper and Britta Joy Peterson. He is the 2020 recipient of the Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship.

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P I 856.577.8241

E I erinsullivan22@gmail.com

W I erinsullivan.com

Erin Sullivan is a Projection Designer at the Yale School of Drama. She has a passion for experimental storytelling through film and performance.  Her sculptural projection installation Spine Lines was exhibited at The Prague Quadrennial Performance of Design and Space. Recent credits for theater include The Black Feminist Video Game (The Civillians Theater), This American Wife (New York Theater Workshop) and Jeremy O’Harris’ YELL: A Documentary of my Time Here (The Carlotta Festival of New Plays, Yale School of Drama). She’s a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild based in NYC, and currently the Visual Effects Editor for SEE on AppleTV. She produced and edited the feature film In Reality, which won the Special Jury Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. www.ErinMSullivan.com 

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P I 310.926.5813

E I elsarinde@gmail.com

W I elsarinde.com

Elsa Rinde has an MFA in scenic design from the Yale School of Drama. Yale credits include Arden (as u like it) and Othello; Yale Cabaret credits include Alma, Red Speedo, The Swallow and the Tomcat and Latinos Who Look Like Ricky Martin. She holds a B.A. in theater with a minor in Philosophy from Barnard College. She was the production designer on the short film An Occurrence at Arverne, and has art-directed several shorts including Jack and Jill and Candace. She has worked as an art department assistant and clearance coordinator on multiple television shows including The Deuce (HBO), The Sinner (NBCU), Gotham (WB), and Elementary (CBS), and is a 2020 recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design. 

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P I 786.877.5273

E I sarahkarldesign.com

W I srpkarl@gmail.com

Sarah Karl (she/her) is a New York City-based designer + artist for theater, film/television, and events. She is originally from Miami, Florida, where she received formal training in visual arts.

Sarah holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in scenic design (’20) as well as a BFA from SUNY Purchase in scenic design, and a minor in visual arts.

Her most recent work includes The Plot (Yale Repertory Theatre), and Hamlet (Yale School of Drama).

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P I 603.762.1146

E I emilyduncanwilson@gmail.com

W I emilyduncanwilson.com

Emily Duncan Wilson is a sound designer, composer, and woodwind musician originally from New Hampshire. Currently an educator at Interlochen Center for the Arts, her pre-pandemic sound design credits include The Plot by Will Eno directed by Oliver Butler (Yale Repertory Theatre), YELL: A Documentary of my Time Here by Jeremy O. Harris (Yale School of Drama), All's Well That Ends Well (Past is Prologue Productions), benjisun presents: bodyssey (Yale Cabaret). She worked as the assistant sound designer on Sam Max's Twin Size Beds (The Public Theater); and American Girl Live! (national tour). As a woodwind musician, Emily has played in many orchestra pits, including Fun Home (Yale School of Drama); Pajama Game (New London Barn Playhouse); 42nd Street (Palace Theatre, NH). In July 2019, she was featured in American Theatre Magazine for her sound design work on Past is Prologue Productions' production of Shakespeare in the Dark: Macbeth.

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P I 203.598.1905

E I liam.bellmansharpe@gmail.com

W I liambellmansharpe.com

Liam Bellman-Sharpe is a multi-discplinary practitioner working primarily in sound and music for live performance. Liam specialises in devising unique musical and sonic scores and environments for theatre, dance, installation, and hybrid forms, as well as designing sound delivery systems and digital tools to realise these scores. As a composer, sound designer, orchestrator, musician, and music director, his work has been heard in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and his native Australia. He holds Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, and an MFA in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama, where he was awarded the Frieda Shaw, Dr Diana Mason OBE, and Denise Suttor Prize for Sound Design.