Mindy Eshelman (costume designer) Los Angeles based throughout most of her career, Mindy has designed for film and television throughout the United States and internationally. She began working in indie projects with directors Abel Ferrara and Quentin Tarantino and then designed such films as OFFICE SPACE, WHERE THE HEART IS, and most recently DEAR ZOE. She has collaborated in many genres of television and cable, designing with directors George Clooney, Todd Field, Mike Judge and Bob Rafelson among others. Her work appears in hundreds of commercials including award-winning campaigns for ADIDAS (Ali vs Laila) and VOLKSWAGEN (The Force). COCA-COLA, AUDI, NIKE, VISA, APPLE, NBA are a few of her many clients. She has designed locally for Quantum Theater, Attack Theater, and others. Mindy is an Associate Professor of Costume Design at Carnegie Mellon University focusing on film, costume history and unconventional fabrications. She is grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this beautiful story.

PATTI KELLY

Resident Production Stage Manager

She/Her

PKelly@citytheatrecompany.org 

PATTI KELLY (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to City Theatre for her 35th season! Having been with the company for over half of its lifetime, some of Patti’s favorite shows at City Theatre include Birthday Candles, The Real James Bond…Was Dominican, Native Gardens, POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, The Old Man and the Old Moon, The Royale, Hand to God, The 39 Steps, Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Molly Sweeney, The Baltimore Waltz, and Our Country’s Good. Other credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Hartford Stage; Hysteria for Pittsburgh Public Theater; Richard II, The Tempest, Othello, As You Like It, Horse of a Different Color, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth for Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival; and over 30 plays for the Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Plays. Patti is a recipient of the Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Anne is pleased to return to City Theatre, where her previous productions at include: Cry it Out, The Revolutionists, Ironbound, Outside Mullingar, Grounded, Hope and Gravity, POP!, Precious Little, When January Feels Like Summer, Talking Heads, Inventing Van Gogh, Blackbird, Cryptogram, Masterclass and Fires in the Mirror. Other Pittsburgh work includes Pittsburgh, Public Theater, Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Symphony, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Quantum Theater, Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, Carnegie Science Center, and Pittsburgh Musical Theater. Outside Pittsburgh, Anne has designed scenery for many projects throughout the United States and has recently been dabbling in projection design. Her design work includes theater, museum exhibition, installation and fine arts, parade floats, industrial design, opera, symphony, and dance. Anne is also Professor of Scenic Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where she has just finished a term as Interim Head and served for ten-years as Area Chair of Design. Teaching recognition includes, The Ryan Award (top teaching award at CMU), The Hornbostle Award (top teaching award in the College of Fine Arts), named one of Pittsburgh’s top eight professors by Pittsburgh Magazine. Professional awards include: The Frankel Award for Contribution to the Arts, numerous “Best of Pittsburgh” and the Carbonell Award. She has ongoing collaborations with the Robotics Institute at CMU and was Founder and Director of Growing Theater Outreach. Anne holds an AB from Kenyon College, an MFA from Brandeis University and recently earned certificates in Inquiry Driven Leadership from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Strategic Change Management from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. 

Natalie Robin (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based lighting designer, educator and organizer who believes that design is dramaturgy and is interested in how the generative text for work can be found in movement as much as in language. She loves musicals. Natalie is the Program Director of Theater Design & Technology in the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts. She has many longtime artistic homes, and one of the longest is Target Margin Theater, of which she is an Associate Artist. Natalie serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Eastern Region of United Scenic Artists /IATSE Local 829. She is currently part of the NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Workers’ Institute Union Leadership Institute, Class of 2022.  BA: Columbia. MFA: NYU/Tisch. Member: United Scenic Artists IATSE Local USA 829. www.natalierobinlighting.com 

Jeff Sherwood (he/him) is an award-winning Korean American sound designer and composer.  Most recently he was the Resident Sound Designer for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and has also worked Off-Broadway including with The Public Theater, The New Group, Signature Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, and others.  Recent sound design credits include: Jersey Boys (Theatre Aspen); Bridges of Madison County (Axelrod PAC); The Amish Project (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Emily Dickinson (PowerOut NYC); Mother Russia, Jump (Chautauqua Theater Company); Cabaret, The Music Man (Cape Playhouse); Take the Car (Williamstown Theatre Festival PTP).  Sherwood is also an Assistant Professor of Sound at Michigan Tech University.  He is an active member of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).  MFA: Purdue University, BFA: Oklahoma City University. www.SherwoodSound.com