The violin is the closest sound to the human voice.
Shaun Renfro, Scenic/Properties Designer
A few things to know about Shaun; he has a passion for set design that goes beyond reason and propriety, he dances compulsively when alone, while cooking or working late. Shaun is the loudest laugh in the room, it is impossible to resist touching his fluffy red hair, he can sleep standing up, his sneezes are magnificent example of temporary demonic possession, and he has recently developed a love of sweater vests. Credits include Voodoo Chalk Circle, Talk Radio, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Love's Labours Lost, and Babes in Toyland.
Steve Sorenson, Lighting Designer
Credits Include Fiddler On The Roof, Raw, Wizard of Oz, Great Expectations, Mourning Becomes Electra, Street Scene, Happy Days: A New Musical, Marriage of Figaro, A Love Lost Life, Holmes and Waston: A Musical Mystery, Merry Widow, Leading Ladies, Conneticut Yankee, Half Magic, Holiday, Cymbeline, Eurydice, and Madame Bovary. For more info visit: http://stevesorenson.wix.com/sorensonlighting
Raquel Adorno, Costume Designer
Raquel Adorno is a designer based in Chicago. Recent credits include Crimes of the Heart, Dead Accounts, Darlin’(World Premiere), HoliDAZE, and The BenchMark (Step Up Productions); Our New Girl, Genius, The Other Place, Cryptogram, Reasons to be Happy, Annapurna, Cock, Gidion’s Knot, Hellcab, Wrecks, In God’s Hat, In the Company of Men, and The Dream of the Burning Boy (Profiles Theatre); Murder Ballad, Princess Mary Demands Your Attention, CARRIE: the musical (Bailiwick Chicago); Scenes from an Execution (Runcible Theatre Company), Desperate Dolls (Strawdog Theatre), Angry Fags, Book of Merman, The Submission, Some Men, Songs from an Unmade Bed, and The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret (Pride Films and Plays); RAW (Deluge Theatre Collective), Trafford Tanzi and Patria Libre (Prologue Theatre Company); Gambit (Artemisia, A Chicago Theatre). Raquel is an Artistic Associate with Profiles Theatre, an Ensemble Member of Pride Films and Plays, and Resident Costume Designer and Artistic Associate for Step Up Productions.
Oliver Hickman, Sound Designer
Oliver Hickman was born and raised in Sheldon, Iowa. He has since moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition at Columbia College Chicago. He has composed music for many varying types of ensembles including: Chamber Orchestra, String Quartet, Flute Viola and Harp, Solo Piano, and Solo Alto Saxophone. His music has been performed by the Columbia College Chicago New Music Ensemble as well as various Columbia College students, Hannah Hickman, and the ensemble Mocrep. He has studied composition under Dr. Ilya Levinson, Dr. Drew Baker, and Dr. Kenn Kumpf and digital music composition under Daniel Dehaan. Oliver is also involved in different aspects of music for the theatre. In 2012, he worked as the Musical Director the Sheldon High School Summer Theatre's production ofSmokey Joe's Cafe and in 2014 served as Music Director and Sound Designer for the 2014 season. Oliver has worked as a composer on three theatre productions at Columbia College Chicago: Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy (2013), Six Postcards (2014), and The Hour of Feeling (2014), which he also served as Sound Designer. In 2015, he worked as the sound co-designer for the Profiles Theatre producion of Our New Girl.