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