Winner of six 2010 Tony Awards including Best Play
Red
Creative Team Bios
JOHN LOGAN
PlaywrightJohn Logan received the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic Circle and Drama League awards for Red. This play premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and at the Golden Theatre on Broadway. He is the author of more than a dozen other plays including Never the Sinner and Hauptmann. His adaptation of Ibsen’s The Master Builder premiered on the West End in 2003. As a screenwriter, Mr. Logan had three movies released in 2011: Hugo, Coriolanus and Rango. Previous film work includes Sweeney Todd (Golden Globe Award); The Aviator (Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Award nominations); Gladiator (Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Award nominations); The Last Samurai; Any Given Sunday, and RKO 281 (Writers Guild of America Award, Emmy Award nomination).
RICHARD E.T. WHITE
DirectorRichard E.T. White is making his ATC debut. He has previously directed Copenhagen, Spinning into Butter and The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Seattle Repertory Theatre, as well as productions at Intiman Theatre and ACT Theatre. His work has been seen at theatres across the country including American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. With composer Paul Dresher and lyricist-performer Rinde Eckert, he co-created the electronic opera Slow Fire, which has been performed at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and toured internationally. From 1992-95, he was Resident Director at Theatre Company Subaru in Tokyo alongside his wife, Christine Sumption. Mr. White is currently the Chair of the Theater Department of Cornish College of the Arts, a position he has held since 1995.
KENT DORSEY
Scenic DesignerKent Dorsey returns to ATC where he was the Scenic Designer for God of Carnage, Enchanted April, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, For Better or Worse, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Work Song (ariZoni Award), How the Other Half Loves, Glengarry Glen Ross, Arms and the Man, Steel Magnolias, The Tempest, My Fair Lady and The Rainmaker. He designed both scenery and lighting for ATC’s Ain’t Misbehavin’ and was the Lighting Designer for Misalliance, Fool for Love and What the Butler Saw. His New York credits include About Time, Alligator Tales, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Silence, Suds and Yankee Dawg You Die. Mr. Dorsey has designed scenery and/or lighting on over 95 productions for The Old Globe. He has also designed for most of the major resident theatre companies. Mr. Dorsey designed scenery and lighting for Silence Chinmoku, a world premiere by Subaru Acting Company (Tokyo) and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Opera credits include the world premiere of The Conquistador at San Diego Opera, The Lighthouse at San Diego Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre, The Merry Widow at Opera San Jose, Lucia di Lammermoor at Greensboro Opera, The Flying Dutchman at Virginia Opera and La Boheme and Samson et Dalila for Palm Beach Opera.
ROSE PEDERSON
Costume DesignerRose Pederson returns to Arizona Theatre Company where her work has been seen in The Heidi Chronicles, Fertility Rights, Fires in the Mirror, Dancing at Lughnasa, Shadowlands, Private Eyes and La Malinche. She has designed costumes for more than one hundred professional productions at theatres from Broadway to Arizona. On Broadway, she designed the costumes for Bill Irwin's Tony Award-nominated play Largely, New York. She has designed many productions for Seattle Repertory Theatre, including the original productions of three plays by Wendy Wasserstein: An American Daughter (with Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Liev Schreiber), The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosenzweig (with Mary Tyler Moore). She has also designed for ACT Theatre, New City Theater, The Empty Space, Tacoma Actors Guild, Portland Center Stage, The Cleveland Play House, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and for Richard E.T. White’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest at Berkeley Repertory Theatre where her work was nominated for a Bay Area Drama Critics Award. She was also the long-time resident designer at Seattle University's Drama Department.
ROBERT PETERSON
Lighting DesignerRobert Peterson returns to ATC where he designed M. Butterfly. He is the Resident Lighting Designer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he has designed over 140 shows. Other theatres where he has worked include Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Goodman Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Intiman Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, Tacoma Actors Guild, Eugene Festival of Musical Theatre and Indiana Repertory Theatre (where he is an Associate Artist). Other design credits include Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnatti Ballet, Ballet Internationale, Ballet Oregon and Eugene Ballet. Mr. Peterson is the recipient of multiple Drama League Awards. In Medford, Oregon, he is also Vice President of Craterian Performances Company. Mr. Peterson has provided and installed concert lighting for Bonnie Raitt, Melissa Etheridge, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Tony Bennett, Ringo Starr, and hundreds of others.
BRENDAN PATRICK HOGAN
Original Music and Sound DesignBrendan Patrick Hogan is the Resident Sound Designer at ACT Theatre. His favorite designs there include Mary Stuart; Double Indemnity; Yankee Tavern; Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World; Rock ‘n’ Roll; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play and Below the Belt. Other designs and compositions for stage include RoboPop!, Titus, God’s Ear, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Mr. Marmalade (Washington Ensemble Theatre); Demonology (Next Stage); Chamber Cymbeline (Seattle Shakespeare Company); and The River Why (Book-It Repertory Theatre). His music has also been featured in a video for Amnesty International and in the film Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel. When not editing audio files in a dark room, Mr. Hogan performs with the bands ‘Miss Mamie Lavona the Exotic Mulatta and Her White Boy Band’ and ‘The Bad Things.’
LORI AMONDSON*
Stage ManagerLori Amondson has worked in New York on Septimus and Clarissa with Ripe Time, The Witch of Edmonton and Revelation Readings with Red Bull Theater, along with several new play and musical workshops and concerts with Playwrights Horizons, The York Theatre Company, Perry Street Theatricals, Banner NY and Guardian Angel Inc. She has worked for years at Seattle Repertory Theatre on Red, Three Tall Women, Pullman Porter Blues, The Road to Mecca, The Cure at Troy, The Cook, Fire on the Mountain, Private Lives, Cathay: Three Tales of China, Proof, Inspecting Carol, The Last True Believer, Don Juan and Texts for Nothing (with Bill Irwin). Other regional work includes The 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT Theatre, The Empty Space, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Village Theatre and Shakespeare Santa Cruz.
GLENN BRUNER*
Assistant Stage ManagerGlenn Bruner is in his fifteenth season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, The Great Gatsby, The Mystery of Irma Vep, [title of show], The Kite Runner, Hair, Enchanted April, The Pajama Game, The Pirates of Penzance, Much Ado About Nothing, 2 Pianos 4 Hands and the world premieres of Jeffery Hatcher’s Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club and Ten Chimneys, and Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh and Over the Moon. Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Studio Arena Theatre, and Maine’s Portland Stage Company. He was the Assistant Stage Manager for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House and stage managed the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. He has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and worked for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio. Mr. Bruner has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1981.
ASHLEY SIMON
Assistant to the Stage ManagerAshley Simon was Assistant to the Stage Manager for ATC’s The 39 Steps, Daddy Long Legs, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Suicide Club, Lost in Yonkers, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Backwards in High Heels, The Glass Menagerie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Kite Runner, A Raisin in the Sun, Hair and The Lady with All the Answers. She was the Production Stage Manager for ATC's Summer on Stage 2010 and 2011. Other recent credits include stage managing The Real Inspector Hound, The Decameron, The Four of Us, Othello and Immortal Longings with The Rogue Theatre and The Mousetrap, Same Time Next Year and Forever Plaid at The Theater Barn in the Berkshires. At Florida Stage, she was Assistant to the Stage Manager for the world premieres of Deborah Zoe Laufer’s End Days and Aaron Posner’s A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage.
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
Co-producerFounded in 1963, Seattle Repertory Theatre is led by Artistic Director Jerry Manning and Managing Director Benjamin Moore. One of America's premier nonprofit resident theatres, Seattle Repertory Theatre has achieved international renown for its consistently high production and artistic standards, and was awarded the 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. With an emphasis on entertaining plays of true dramatic and literary worth, Seattle Rep produces a season of plays along with educational programs, new play workshops and special presentations. Previous co-productions with ATC: As You Like It, Over the Moon.
