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Production

Lucas Krech (Production Manager, Lighting Designer)was born in Berkeley, CA in the latter half of the 20th century. His first word was "light". As a young child he enjoyed staring into flashlight bulbs and eventually turned that childhood love into a career as a designer for theater, dance, opera, installations and performance.

New York Off-Broadway credits include Soldier Songs (Dir, Yuval Sharon); Fate's Imagination (Dir, Hayley Finn); Becoming Adele (Dir, Victor Maog); Sake with the Haiku Geisha and The Last Word (Dir, Alex Lippard).

Regional Theatre: Beauty and the Beast, Driving Miss Daisy, Evita (Barter Theatre); Lovers and Executioners (Marin Theatre Company); Aida (Berkeley Opera); House of Lucky (The Magic); The America Play (Thick Description); Young Zombies in Love (Emerald Rain Productions); and many others.

Lucas has designed various site specific performance works and installations including Altered State (Nevada Desert); Antigona (Sibiu Rumania - Dir, Gisela Cardenas);The Seven Deadly Sins: A Fire Opera (Oakland, CA - Dir, Roy Rallo); Medea (San Juan, PR - Dir, Isabel Ramos); and Foucault's Pendulum (Nevada Desert).

Dance Collaborations include the work of choreographers Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan, Sean Curran, Johannes Weiland, Gemze De Lappe, Donald Mahler, Sallie Wilson, Paul Sutherland, Viktor Kabaniaev, Trebien Pollard, Anandha Ray, David Brick and Keith Michael. For New York Theatre Ballet he has lit the world premiers of A. de Mille Celebration, Legends of Love, Mother GOOSE! and many more. Other companies whose work he has designed include Moving Arts Dance, Johannes Weiland Company, Residue Dance Theatre, LEVYDance, and Refractions Dance Collective. He was the resident lighting designer for the Tisch dance department for two years lighting over one hundred dances in that time.

Gregory Emetaz (Lighting Design) is a filmmaker and designer based in New York City. The New York Times described his "excellent introductory videos" as the "highlight" of New York City Opera's "Opera for All" program. His Title MY GAY SON SAVES CHRISTMAS was honorably mentioned in The 2008 GLBTQ Movie Title Contest. Currently he is completing work on Fay Lindsay-Jones Story a feature documentary, creating a multi-media education project for Opera Theater of St. Louis and biographical videos for the new NEA Opera Honors. Visit his media factory at www.MINORapocalypse.com.

Wendy Sparks (Costume Design) has been designing costumes and clothing in the Bay Area since 1992. Her most recent design credits include Dolly West's Kitchen for UC Berkeley, WonderBoy, Humansville, Stay Together, Hometown, Grace, and Folk for The Joe Goode Performance Group and Temporal Rust, Holding Pattern, That Four Letter Word, and Physics for LEVYdance. Wendy has been a fashion designer for Planet Five Productions and is currently on staff as Costume Director for the Department Of Theater and Dance and Performance Studies at the University Of California at Berkeley.