Meet the Designers, Part Two

We're excited to have Sydney Maresca join the pact as our Assistant Costume Designer!  I first worked with Sydney in 2008 at NYU on a production of Cheer Wars - so she is well-versed in my second act opening dream sequences.

In New York, Sydney has designed Hand To God (Ensemble Studio Theater), The Lapsburgh Layover (Ars Nova), The Yellow Brick Road (Lucille Lortel/TheatreworksUSA), and a number of shows with The Debate Society including Buddy Cop 2, You're Welcome, and Cape Disappointment.  Her work has been seen in touring productions for TheatreworksUSA and The Debate Society, along with opera and dance, and circus pieces nationally.  She's also designed for the short films Robin's Big Date  and Robin's Big Speed Date along with music videos for her ukulele band The Hazzards.

Meet the Designers

JENNIFER CAPRIO
COSTUME DESIGNER
Jen's credits include Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, In Transit at Primary Stages, Striking 12 at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Masked at DR2, Girl's Room (QTIP), Wanda's World (AMAS), Serendib (EST), The Atheist (Center Stages), Broadway Bares (BC/EFA), Out of Iceland (Culture Project), and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Edinburgh Festival.)  Regionally, she has designed at Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theater Festival, Geva, Humana Festival, Virginia State, George Street Playhouse, Playmakers Repertory, Vineyard Theatre, North Shore Music Theater, The Hangar Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, and Barrington Stage Company, among others.  www.jencaprio.com

ED CHAPMAN
SOUND DESIGNER
Ed has previously designed sound at Weston for Saint-Ex, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, Betrayal, Ain't Misbehavin', Avenue Q, and Damn Yankees.  Recently he returned from a two-month project in China as the sound designer for The Joker's Game, which is the first Broadway-style musical ever produced in China.  Other recent designs include Annie with Sally Struthers at Theater of the Stars in Atlanta and Fiddler On the Roof at Barrington Stage Company.  He is currently the Production Sound Engineer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, now on Broadway.

TIMOTHY R. MACKABEE
SCENIC DESIGNER
For Weston: Saint-Ex, Death of a Salesman, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Rent, No Child...  Broadway: Fela! (Associate Set Designer, Broadway, West End, Africa, Amsterdam, UK & US Tour).  Regional: Yale Rep, Asolo Rep, Florida Stage, Philadelphia Theater Co., Studio Theatre, Maltz-Jupiter, North Shore Music Theatre.  NYC: Good Ol' Girls, Mel & El: Show & Tell (Ars Nova),  Single Black Female, Trout Stanley (Culture Project), Gorilla Man (P.S. 122), Our Lot, Those Who Can, Do (Clubbed Thumb).  TV/Film: The Today Show, Football Night in America, Margot at the Wedding.  BFA: North Carolina School of the Arts, MFA: Yale School of Drama.  timothymackabeedesign.com

JOEL SHIER
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Joel is Member USA 829.  Designer: "Ghost" Light Sessions (Broadcast), Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, The Memory Show (Barrington), Fugitive Songs (Off-B'way) as well as various productions for PPAS.  Assistant/Associate: Broadway: Ghost (Tony/Drama Desk Nom.), Follies (Tony Nom.), Wonderland, Godspell, The Addams Family, The Little Mermaid, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Lestat.  Tours: Wicked, Sweeney Todd, Storytime Live!, Thomas & Friends!.  Select Off B'way/Regional: Toxic Avenger, Good Boys and True, New Century, Saving Aimee, Witches of Eastwick, productions with 2nd Stage, Lincoln Center, Signature, ACT, Roundabout.  Other: Broadway Bares 17 through 22 as well as various other television and live events.

Meet the Music Department

RICH SILVERSTEIN
MUSIC DIRECTOR

Rich has been on board with Pregnancy Pact since our first table reading on Mother's Day 2010 and has music directed the Uncharted concert at Ars Nova, the Weston Playhouse 2011 New Musical Award performance and demo, and the NAMT Festival of New Musicals presentation.  His other music directing credits include Ryan Scott Oliver's 35mm (Galapagos Art Space), Musical of Musicals (Cincinatti Playhouse), Zanna, Don't! (York Theatre), Songs for a New World (Riverside Church), and a Broadway-themed episode of The Apprentice featuring Kristin Chenoweth.  Rich is also an AEA actor whose credits include work at Goodspeed, Cincinatti Playhouse, Bard Summerscape, and New Jersey Repertory Company.


ANDREW COOPER
ASSISTANT MUSIC DIRECTOR/COPYIST

Recent credits: Titanic and Mozart's Don Giovanni at Baldwin-Wallace, and Lizzie Borden at Cleveland's Playhouse Square.  Upcoming: Follies at Baldwin-Wallace and the premiere of his own The Pokémusical (Book & Music by Alex Syiek.)  Andrew will return to his second year at B-W in the fall, where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Music Theatre Music Direction.

Meet the Team: Joe Calarco

JOE CALARCO
DIRECTOR

New York: Playwrights Horizons (The Burnt Part Boys, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky), Primary Stages (In Transit, Boy), Second Stage (...in the absence of spring...), the Lucille Lortel (The Summer of the Swans, Sarah, Plain & Tall), The Transport Group (Bury the Dead), and Lincoln Center.  Regional: Signature Theater (The Boy Detective Fails, Assassins, Urinetown), The Old Globe (Lincolnesque, The Glass Menagerie), Barrington Stage Company (The Memory Show, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick), the O'Neill Music Theater Conference (Picnic at Hanging Rock), Berkshire Theater Festival, 11th Hour Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company (The Light in the Piazza).  As a writer his published works include Walter Cronkite is Dead, In the Absence of Spring, and Shakespeare's R&J.  He is a Drama League Directing Fellow and sits on the Executive Board of the directors union SDC.  He is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award, the Barrymore Award, and 4 Helen Hayes Awards.