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VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE | CREATIVE TEAM DANIEL MEEKER Scenic and Lighting Designer Previously at PCS, Dan designed the set for The People’s Republic of Portland and Red (Drammy Award), the lighting for Twist Your Dickens and I Love to Eat, and the set and lighting for The Typographer’s Dream, LIZZIE, The Last Five Years, Bo-Nita, The Mountaintop, The Real Americans and Mike’s Incredible Indian Adventure. Other recent credits include lighting design for the Pickathon Festival; set and lighting design for The Light in the Piazza, Detroit, Mother Teresa is Dead, The Huntsman and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Portland Playhouse; set design for Fancy Nancy and The Stinky Cheese Man for Oregon Children’s Theatre; and set design for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Pioneer Theatre Company. Upcoming projects include The Other Place at Portland Playhouse, Ramona Quimby for Oregon Children’s Theatre and The People’s Republic of Portland for Portland Center Stage. Daniel is a member of the faculty of Portland State University. He is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School of Drama and a member of United Scenic Artists. MIKE FLOYD Costume Designer Mike is excited to be designing costumes for this production of Vanya… at PCS, while also managing the costume shop which creates the hundreds of outfits needed for this season’s calendar. On Broadway, he has worked on the recent productions of Newsies; Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Tony Award for Best Costumes); Fela! (Tony Award for Best Costumes); and Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away. In New York, his work has been seen at the Public Theater; the Acting Company; New York Theatre Workshop; and the New York Classical Theatre. Regionally, he has worked with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Paper Mill Playhouse, Nashville Opera, among others. He has taught or designed at the Brown/ Trinity Rep Consortium; Rutgers and Northwestern universities; Colby, Providence, Colgate colleges; and the University of California Irvine. Mike received his M.F.A. in design from the Yale School of Drama and his B.A. from Kenyon College. He is a member of USA 829, the union for stage designers. CASI PACILIO Sound Designer Casi keeps busy with a variety of work and play in Portland and around the country. PCS credits include Dreamgirls, The Last Five Years, Othello, A Small Fire, Chinglish, Twist Your Dickens (2013 and 2014), The Mountaintop, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, The North Plan, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, Black Pearl Sings!, Opus, futura (with composer Jana Losey), Ragtime (PAMTA Award 2010), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Snow Falling on Cedars, Crazy Enough, The Little Dog Laughed, Sometimes a Great Notion, Cabaret, The Pillowman, I Am My Own Wife, West Side Story, Celebrity Row and eight seasons of JAW. National shows: Holcombe Waller Surfacing and Wayfinders; Hand2Mouth Theatre credits: Left Hand of Darkness, My Mind is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy Award 2011), Something’s Got Ahold Of My Heart and PEP TALK. Other theatrical credits include Squonk Opera’s Bigsmorgasbord-WunderWerk (Broadway, PS122, national and international touring); I Am My Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls (La Jolla Playhouse); Playland, 10 Fingers and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (City Theatre, PA). Film credits include Creation of Destiny, Out of Our Time and A Powerful Thang. Recordings: Glitterfruit’s fruit snacks. KELSEY DAYE LUTZ Stage Manager Kelsey Daye is a North Carolinian dairy farmer’s daughter. New York credits include Off-Broadway work with The Actors Company Theatre; off-offBroadway work with Theatre for the New City and The Internationalists. Regional credits include stage manager for The Typographer’s Dream, The Last Five Years and A Small Fire and production assistant for Clybourne Park, Venus in Fur, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The North Plan and Anna Karenina at PCS; stage management intern for Hard Weather Boating Party, Shipwrecked, A Raisin in the Sun and 43 Plays for 43 Presidents at Actors Theatre of Louisville; and assistant stage manager for A Beautiful Star and A Christmas Carol at Triad Stage. She would like to thank her boys for all their unconditional love, and Shamus for being wonderful.  STEPHEN KRIZ GARDNER Production Assistant Previously at Portland Center Stage, Stephen was the production assistant for Othello, Chinglish, Twist Your Dickens (2013 and 2014), The Mountaintop and Somewhere in Time. In Portland, he has also worked as the stage manager for Oregon Children’s Theatre on Pinkalicious (remount), The Magic School Bus: Climate Challenge and Locomotion, as well as assistant stage managed Pinkalicious and Duck for President. In addition, Stephen stage managed Spring Awakening, and more recently The Rocky Horror Show with Live On Stage Theatre Company. Credits outside of Portland include stage managing Black Comedy for No Rules Theatre Company in Washington DC and assisting on Camp Wanatachi at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York. He has been a production assistant on One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert and Company at Lincoln Center. Internship credits include the Goodman Theatre (Candide and A Christmas Carol) and Broadway’s Wicked. FOR THIS PRODUCTION Scenic Painters Loren Hillman Shawn Mallory Props Artisans Shawn Mallory Teresa Pilar Huarte Draper Lisa Logan Stitchers Susi Jenkins