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P I 920.257.6575

E I alice@alicecombsdesign.com

W I alicecombsdesign.com

Aleksandra Combs (They/Them) is a lighting and projection designer based in Kansas City Missouri. They received their BS in Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their MFA in Lighting and Projection Design from the University of Missouri- Kansas City. After finishing undergrad they worked as a freelance lighting designer and head electrician in Madison, WI. At the start of the pandemic they decided to go back to school pursuing their master’s at University of Missouri- Kansas City. Recent design credits include Young Playwrights Live (Lighting) Spinning Tree Theatre, Kansas City Horror Playfest (Lighting) The Living Room, Ride the Cyclone (Projections) Spinning Tree Theatre, and Nocturne (Lighting) The Living Room.

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P I 832.495.7580

E I ealeybryan@gmail.com

W I bryanealey.myportfolio.com

Bryan Keith Ealey is a Houstonian, and a Board Member of NobleMotion Dance Company (Houston). He holds an MFA in Lighting Design from the Theatre and Dance Program at the University of California, San Diego. Throughout his career, Bryan has been a Resident Lighting Designer for River Pointe Church (Richmond, Texas), House of Blues - Houston, and Sam Houston State University - Dance Department. He’s also been fortunate to design for several theater and dance companies, such as Main Street, Stages, The Landing Theatre Company, Houston Grand Opera, Unity, Horse Head, Classical Theatre Company, NobleMotion Dance, Open Dance Project, Social Movement Contemporary Dance, Houston Contemporary Dance, Urban Souls Dance, Von Ussar Danceworks, Creede Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, and Antaues Theatre Company. Bryan’s passion for lighting design is rooted in the fundamental ability to support, give focus, and elevate the performance to draw an emotional response from the audience.

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P I 847.877.5359

E I clairechrzan@gmail.com

W I clairechrzandesigns.com

Claire Chrzan is a lighting designer whose work moves in tandem with performers as another voice, breathing life into the story. Her work has been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at The Public Theatre in NYC at the Under The Radar Festival, and in Chicago at The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court Theatre, Manual Cinema, Writers Theatre, Northlight, A Red Orchid, The Joffrey Ballet's Joffrey Academy, and more. Claire has toured nationally and internationally as production stage manager for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's HS2 and with The Alonzo King LINES Ballet.  In her spare time Claire is a facilitator with ABLE ensemble, an ensemble for actors with developmental differences. Claire received her MFA in experience design from California Institute of the Arts and her BA in theatrical design from Columbia College Chicago.

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P I 860.817.8182

E I steinjeremyb@gmail.com

W I jeremysteindesigns.com

Jeremy Stein is a Brooklyn based Lighting Designer originally from Farmington, CT. He earned a BFA in Theater Design & Technology from Emerson College in Boston, MA. Shortly after graduating Jeremy took to the seas where for the next 3 years he worked for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines starting as Technical Stage Staff and eventually promoted to Head Light Technician on Symphony of the Seas which was the flagship and world’s largest cruise ship at the time. When the pandemic hit and cruise ships were not in service, he decided to return to school and earn his master’s degree. Jeremy has loved already being immersed in the theater community here in New York and is looking forward to what the future has in store.

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P I 757.947.6454

E I kjgess@gmail.com

W I kaylinjgess.com

Kaylin Gess is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with a specialty in Lighting Design. Gess was previously a Charlotte-based Lighting Designer, Scenic Designer, and Scenic Painter who worked as the Assistant Technical Director at Davidson College, her alma mater from 2017-2020. Professional design credits include: NC Stage Company, Adjusted Realists (NYC), River and Rail Theatre, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, Jobsite Theatre, Hat Trick Theatre, Patel Conservatory, M.A.D. Theatre of Tampa, and Davidson College. At the Clarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Gess most recently served as Lighting Designer for Hair, Lighting Designer for Men on Boats, Projections Designer for Adaptive Radiation and Lighting Designer on Blood at the Root. Kaylin holds a BA in Theatre from Davidson College and an MFA in Lighting Design from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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P I 978.380.8639

E I kevindunn11@gmail.com

W I kevindunndesign.com

Kevin Dunn (they/he) is a Lighting Designer based in New York City. Past design credits include Shakespeare in Love (BU School of Theatre), Wizard of Oz (Wheelock Family Theatre), Queens Girl in the World (Central Square Theatre), Into the Woods (The Barnstormers Theatre), Mansfield Park (BU Opera Institute), and A Small Handful (PTP/NYC). They have been the recipient of the Don Childs Award for Excellence from the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas and an Honorable mention for the KCACTF Barbizon Award for Excellence in Lighting Design at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. They received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in theatrical design from Salem State University, and their Masters of Fine Arts in lighting design at Boston University.

P I 626.213.9382

E I shelbythach@gmail.com

W I shelbythach.com

Shelby Thach is a recent MFA graduate in Lighting Design from the University of California, San Diego. Shelby’s favorite thing about lighting is taking an intangible medium and transforming it into something the audience can feel. Her design process involves working with her collaborators to unlock the emotional arc of a story in order to bring it to life on stage. After a fulfilling experience designing Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea with an entirely Asian cast and creative team, Shelby found a passion for the diversification and proper representation for not only those onstage, but those backstage as well. Outside of theater, Shelby enjoys visiting new places, going to contemporary art museums, and wrestling.

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P I 708.969.4179

E I alainapizzoferrato@gmail.com

W I alainapizzoferrato.com

Alaina Pizzoferrato is from Lemont Illinois, and received her MFA degree in Lighting Design and Technology at University of Cincinnati (CCM), and her BFA degree in Theatre Design and Production at Millikin University. 

Recent work includes designing Spring Dance: Swan Lake, Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Cincinnati Dionysia at CCM. Other design work includes RENT at the Carnegie Theatre, KY., Sunday in the Park with George, Xanadu, and The Light in the Piazza at CCM. 

Alaina has worked for several theatre companies around Cincinnati including Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She is looking for design work around Chicago, Las Vegas, LA, and NY.