The Pain of My Belligerence Design Team

Mark Wendland (Scenic Design). Playwrights: The Great God Pan, The World Over, Baby Anger. Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation, Significant Other, Heisenberg, If/Then, Merchant of Venice (Tony nom.), Next to Normal (Tony nom.), Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. Off-Broadway: Murder Ballad, Beauty of the Father, Iron (MTC); Significant Other (Roundabout); I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Yen, Punk Rock (MCC); A Month in the Country, Richard III, Hamlet (CSC); The Layover, Lonely I’m Not, Boy’s Life (Second Stage); The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide..., Satellites, Fucking A, A Dybbuk, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet (The Public).

Paloma Young (Costume Design). Playwrights: Fly By Night, This Flat Earth, The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters. Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award), Natasha, Pierre... (Tony nomination), Bandstand (Drama Desk nomination), Lobby Hero, Time and the Conways. Off-Broadway: Natasha, Pierre…, (Kazino, Lucille Lortel Award); Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout); Moscow X6 (upcoming), Yen, Permission, Alice By Heart (MCC); Brooklyn Babylon, (BAM); Recall (Colt Coeur).  Regional: A.R.T., Dallas Theatre Center, South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, La Jolla, Old Globe, OSF, Hand2Mouth, Mixed Blood. IG: secondpigeon

Ben Stanton (Lighting Design). Playwrights: Marjorie Prime, The Christians, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, Assistance, After The Revolution, A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, Three Changes, A Feminine Ending, Essential Self Defense. Broadway: Junk, Six Degrees of Separation, Fully Committed, Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, Fun Home. Off-Broadway: The Low Road (The Public), Beast in the Jungle (Vineyard), This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic), The Light, Yen, The Nether (MCC), Angels in America (Signature). Concert designs: Beirut, Regina Spektor, St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, The National. Ben is a three-time Tony nominee, and an Obie, Lortel, and Ovation Award winner.  

Elisheba Ittoop (Original Music and Sound Design). Ittoop’s designs and original music have been heard at The Kennedy Center, The Public, MTC, MCC, NTYW, Signature, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, OSF, National Gallery of Art, Soho Rep, Huntington, Denver Center, Two River Theater, WP, Triad Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Cleveland Playhouse. Ittoop was a recipient of the Kenan Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and winner of the 2008 USITT Rising Star Award. Education: NYU, North Carolina School of the Arts. www.elishebaittoop.com

Katie Ailinger (Production Stage Manager). Playwrights: The Thanksgiving Play. Off-Broadway: In The Body of the World (MTC); Nice Fish (St. Ann’s Warehouse); Nixon’s Nixon (MCC); I-Land, Trial By Water (Ma-Yi). Regional: seven seasons with AmericanRepertory Theater, including premiers of Arrabal, Trans Scripts, Notes From The Field, and Eve Ensler’s In the Body of the World; Center Theatre Group; Huntington; Trinity Repertory Company. Education: BFA from Universityof Southern California. All my heart to Efram and Ben.

Katelynn Cooper (Assistant Stage Manager). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Matilda, Dear Evan Hansen, Amazing Grace. National Tours: Matilda. Off-Broadway: Clinton: The Musical, Jersey Boys, Classic Stage, MTC, NYMF. TV: “Peter Pan Live!” Regional: Tantrum Theatre, Asolo Rep, Huntington, Williamstown, Goodspeed, Weston Playhouse. BFA Stage Management, Emerson College.