Marina Draghici: Award Winning Designer to Judge Born-Free Competition

Val — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:22:39 +0000

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Tracy Dorman: Recent Costume Designs

Val — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:04:37 +0000

Susan Hamburger: Featured Rosco Lighting Designer

Val — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:51:34 +0000

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Anything Goes on CBS Early Show: Make-Up Design by Angelina Avallone

Val — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:08:04 +0000

View CBS Early Show Video

Rob Greene

Val — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:56:26 +0000

Rob Greene (Hair, Wig & Make-Up Design) works as a team with J. Jared Janas and Backstage Artistry. Recent designs include wigs, hair & make-up for The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess and wigs for All About Me and Next to Normal on Broadway, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (world premier),Twist at the Alliance Theatre, Curtains and Peter Pan at Paper Mill Playhouse, Meet Me in St. Louis at TUTS, NEWSical, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Shout!, Smokey Joe’s Café, Speech and Debate, Oroonoko, Ohio State Murders, M. Butterfly, Tea and Sympathy, Accomplices, Dinah Was, Silence! the Musical, Trouble in Paradise, The Supreme Court (PBS Documentary) and The Full Monty (National Tour). They have also built wigs currently seen in Wicked, Addams Family, How to Succeed…, and Jersey Boys.

Please Visit the Backstage Artistry Website

J. Jared Janas

Val — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:49:34 +0000

J.Jared Janas (Hair, Wig & Make-Up Design) works as a team with Rob Greene and Backstage Artistry. Recent designs include wigs, hair & make-up for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and wigs for All About Me and Next to Normal on Broadway, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (world premier),Twist at the Alliance Theatre, Curtains and Peter Pan at Paper Mill Playhouse, Meet Me in St. Louis at TUTS, NEWSical, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Shout!, Smokey Joe’s Café, Speech and Debate, Oroonoko, Ohio State Murders, M. Butterfly, Tea and Sympathy, Accomplices, Dinah Was, Silence! the Musical, Trouble in Paradise, The Supreme Court (PBS Documentary) and The Full Monty (National Tour). They have also built wigs currently seen in Wicked, Addams Family, How to Succeed…, and Jersey Boys.

Please visit the Backstage Artistry Website

BackStage Artistry

Val — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:41:02 +0000

Backstage Artistry (Hair, Wig & Make-Up Design) With over 30 years of experience in the Hair, Wig & Make-Up industry between them, Rob Greene & J. Jared Janas, have designed shows that have been seen all over the world. Recent designs include wigs, hair & make-up for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and wigs for All About Me and Next to Normal on Broadway, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (world premier),Twist at the Alliance Theatre, Curtains and Peter Pan at Paper Mill Playhouse, Meet Me in St. Louis at TUTS, NEWSical, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Shout!, Smokey Joe’s Café, Speech and Debate, Oroonoko, Ohio State Murders, M. Butterfly, Tea and Sympathy, Accomplices, Dinah Was, Silence! the Musical, Trouble in Paradise, The Supreme Court (PBS Documentary) and The Full Monty (National Tour). They have also built wigs currently seen in Wicked, Addams Family, How to Succeed…, and Jersey Boys.

Please Visit the Backstage Artistry Website

Fred Sauter

Val — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:01:27 +0000

Fred Sauter (Lyricist/Bookwriter) studied visual art at MICA in Baltimore before moving full force into writing musicals. His first show, Asia Apollo- A Rock Opera, premiered at the Baltimore Theatre Project in 2001. He then moved to NYC and earned his MFA from the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (’05) where he wrote two thesis musicals: Baltimore-set Divine Terror with composer Doug Yetter and a twisted fairy tale Euphoria with composer Mark Irons. He has, at all times, a multitude of projects in the works. Some of those projects include: a one-man show called Borderline, a film rock opera called Buddy Boy or Deer Baby (with Maryland based director Tim Martin) and book for a musical about Warhol Superstar Brigid Berlin (with songwriter David Brown). With his collaborator Paul Leschen he has written Bedbugs! (NYMF 2008). In development shows include: Astronaut Diaper and Other Tales of Modern Love and Karma Kills. Member of the Dramatists’ Guild.

Paul Leschen

Val — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:52:21 +0000

Paul Leschen (Composer) was nominated for a Drama Desk for Outstanding Music for his first musical, Twist: Please Sir, May I Have Some More. Paul is a collaborator and pianist for the international superstars Scissor Sisters- his co-arrangement of Comfortably Numb still receives copious airplay at gay bars from Greensboro to Gdansk. He has worked as musical director and house composer for Murray Hill, Hedda Lettuce, as well as for the annual countdown Christmas classic Moisty the Snowman Saves Christmas. His and Chris Hall’s band Kingship- FKA The Neon Kingdom (FKA Pageant, Nuclear Blouse, Antarctica, Flash N Trash, etc)- is poised to gather a very mid-sized fan base in Belgium and Sweden after the January 2012 release of their full length debut album.

Haley Lieberman

Val — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:36:03 +0000

Haley Lieberman (Costume Designer) is a native New Yorker, growing up in the Manhattan world of fashion and theater.

She is currently a costume designer and stylist for film, stage and commercial work regionally, internationally, and in New York City.

Her passion for materials arose out of her first job out of college in the costume department of The Metropolitan Opera, where she worked to bring designer’s sketches to life through her fabrics and trim expertise.

From The Met, she went on to assist many prominent designers in the fashion and costume design industry, ultimately landing a position in the costume department of Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet International Tour where she was responsible for sourcing all the materials (down to zippers) for Madonna’s custom-built tour costumes.

Haley’s recent stage/opera collaborations include, on Broadway: The Royal Family (Asst.), The Metropolitan Opera: Les Contes des Hoffmann (Asst), Barbiere de Seviglia (Asst.), Madame Butterfly (Asst.), An American Tragedy (Asst). NYC: Once in a Lifetime (Tisch/The Atlas Room), These Seven Sicknesses (Exit Pursued by a Bear), Alcide al Bivio (Columbia University), A Promise Best Kept (Theater for The New City), Burn This (Tisch/The Walker Theater). Regional USA: Capuleti e i Montecchi , La Boheme, Carmen, and Hansel and Gretel (Crested Butte Music Festival), Baby with the Bathwater (Inst. for Contemporary Arts, Boston), Memory of Salt (Boston Center for the Arts). Upcoming: CHILDREN off-Broadway with TACT, Capuleti e i Montecchi at Opera Boston. For her work as a designer in opera, Haley recently received the Opera America Robert L. Tobin Award.

Commercial projects for film and styling include: Shadows and Lies (Feature, Starring James Franco, Premier Tribeca Film Festival 2010), Nightlife (Premier Tribeca Film Festival 2011). Television: White (ITVS/Future States for PBS, Premier Tribeca Film Festival 2012). Stylist: Boy by Ra Ra Riot (music video), Death Rattles by Woods (music video), At Least He Drives a Prius (Toyota spec), MAC Splashproof Mascara. Haley’s work has also been seen in commercials for AT&T, Kmart, and on celebrities such as Adam Levine, K’Naan and Miss USA 2011. Styling credits include work for Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga and Zac Posen. Haley worked backstage on the costumes for Florence and The Machine at the 2011 Met Gala, and has been a stylist/dresser at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week since 2007.

Haley Lieberman received her M.F.A. from NYU/Tisch School of The Arts and her B.A. from Bates College. Haley studied at Central St. Martins in the Design for Performance Year 2 (Hons) level. Additional academic training include courses at The London School of Fashion and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.