B iographies ( continued )
LUCAS HNATH (Playwright) - Plays include The Christians (2014 Humana Festival), Red Speedo (Studio Theatre, DC), A Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney (Soho Rep), nightnight (2013 Humana Festival), Isaac’s Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Death Tax (2012 Humana Festival, Royal Court Theatre) and The Courtship of Anna Nicole Smith (Actors Theatre of Louisville). His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service. Lucas has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011, and is a proud member of the En- semble Studio Theatre. Lucas is a winner of the 2012 Whitfield
Cook Award for Isaac’s Eye and received a 2013 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Ci- tation for Death Tax. He has also received commissions from the EST/ Sloan Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Playwrights Horizons, New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, and the Royal Court Theatre. Lucas holds a BFA and an MFA from New York University’s Department of Dramatic Writing. P roduction T eam AVERY BACON (Master Electrician) - Avery is a stagehand based out of Burlington, VT and has been working with Vermont Stage since fall of 2014 as a carpenter, elec- trician, and sound hand. He is grateful for the opportunity to return as Master Elec- trician for the 2021-22 Season. DANIEL GALLAGHER (Lighting Designer) - Dan hails from Amherst Virginia and be- gan working backstage during high school. He started to specialize in lighting de- sign while attending Mary Washington College where he received his BA in 2001. Dan then went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received his MFA and designed The Physicists for which he won the 2003 Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival award for best lighting design. After graduating in 2003, Dan taught at UW-Madison as a guest lecturer in lighting design. He moved to New York City after being accepted as the 2005 Gilbert Hemsley intern, where he worked at the Lincoln Center Festival, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In the years since Dan has continued to work for these institutions and was the Assistant Lighting Director for NYC Opera from 2007-2012. As a freelance designer, Dan has worked for Vermont Stage, Endstation Theatre, Williams Street Rep, MTWorks, BOO-Arts Pro- ductions, The Cell, On the Square, Madison Rep, Madison Family Theatre, The Flea, AMDA, Manhattan Children’s Theatre, Flamenco Vivo and Miki Liszt Dance Co. He has been a guest artist at Arizona State University, Daytona State College, Ramaz, Connecticut College, Northeastern Illinois University and Lock Haven University. As a project manager for RGB Lights in Chicago from 2013-2016, he oversaw large scale video and lighting productions and installations. Dan is currently teaching at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. He is a member of United Scenic Artists 829. Outside of the theatre, Dan enjoys cooking, painting, and has logged hundreds of miles on the Appalachian Trail. JORDAN GULLIKSON (Director) - Jordan is an actor, playwright and director. Over the past 20 years he has written 11 plays, six of which have been produced. He was recipient of the 2009 Vermont Contemporary Playwrights Award. Jordan was a co-
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