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TWIST YOUR DICKENS CAST & CREATIVE TEAM Catherine Butterfield) at the same venue. Ron has directed more shows than he can count for The Second City, including the award-winning Curious George Goes to War and the international tour of Sex & The Second City. He and Phil Swann wrote the Shakespearebased musicals The People vs. Friar Laurence and deLEARious. They also collaborated on Musical Fools, based on the play by Neil Simon. On TV, Ron usually plays a guy whose first name is Doctor. He is happy to report that the power of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol withstands and even supports the irreverent treatment you are about to witness. Ron bats right/ left and throws right and played SS for Anger Management last year. TOM BUDERWITZ  Scenic Designer  Tom previously designed I Love To Eat for Portland Center Stage and designed the world premiere of The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens for Center Theatre Group at The Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles. He is currently designing the Chicago production, a co-production with The Second City and the Goodman Theatre. Tom has also designed for South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Chautauqua Theater Company, Arizona Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory, Artists Repertory, The Antaeus Company, Reprise Theatre, Boston Court Theatre, P.C.P.A. Theaterfest, Riverside Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, Rogue Machine, DeafWest Theatre and A Noise Within, among many others. Tom has been honored with four Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (26 nominations) and three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. For television, Tom has designed specials and series for every major broadcast and cable network and has three Emmy Award nominations and an Art Director’s Guild Award nomination. www.tombuderwitz.com JEFF CONE Costume Designer Jeff Cone is the costume shop manager at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Before moving to Atlanta, Jeff spent 16 seasons as PCS’s resident costume designer and costume shop manager. In that time he designed costumes for over 75 productions. Of those shows, over 50 were in the last eight seasons at the Armory. Favorite PCS productions include West Side Story, Cabaret, The 39 Steps, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Imaginary Invalid, Black Pearl Sings!, Venus in Fur and Clybourne Park. Jeff received Drammy Awards for his costume designs for Dirty Blonde, Act A Lady and Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline. DANIEL MEEKER Lighting Designer Previously at PCS, Dan designed the set and lighting for The Typographer’s Dream, LIZZIE, The Last Five Years, BoNita, The Mountaintop, The Real Americans, Mike’s Incredible Indian Adventure; as well as the set for The People’s Republic of Portland and Red (Drammy Award); and the lighting for Twist Your Dickens and I Love to Eat. Other recent credits include: set design for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the Pioneer Theatre Company; lighting design for the Pickathon Festival; set and lighting design for The Light in the Piazza, Detroit, Mother Teresa is Dead, The Huntsmen and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Portland Playhouse; set design for Fancy Nancy and The Stinky Cheese Man for Oregon Children’s Theatre. Upcoming projects include: The Other Place at Portland Playhouse, Ramona Quimby for Oregon Children’s Theatre, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and The People’s Republic of Portland for Portland Center Stage. Daniel is also a faculty member of Portland State University. He is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School of Drama and also a member of United Scenic Artists. 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, Twist Your Dickens (PCS and The Goodman in Chicago), The Mountaintop, The North Plan, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, Black Pearl Sings! 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. PCS shows with composer Jana Crenshaw: Chinglish, A Small Fire, Futura; National shows: A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (Boom Arts) Holcombe Waller’s 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, 1