Kelly Hanson is a New York-based designer and director/creator of new performance works. Recent design credits include multiple productions with choreographer Monica Bill Barnes, Bill Irwin's The Happiness Lecture at Philadelphia Theatre Company, John Clancy's Fatboy in NYC and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Fringe First Award), Flags (Off-Broadway), and King Stag at Seattle Rep. She was the 2005 recipient of the Rising Star Award from USITT/Entertainment Design Magazine and is a member United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Kelly is Co-Artistic Director of Human Company, which is devoted to the creation of new physical theatre works. She developed and directed Orpheus & Eurydice in 2007, which premiered at Chashama on 42nd Street. She is currently developing a new work called The Death of Faust. www.humancompany.org
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Jane is thrilled to be collaborating with Monica Bill Barnes, having worked with her all over town, on Thank You and Good Night at Dance New Amsterdam, Hollywood Endings at Dixon Place, The Happy Dance (or what started out ok) at PPOW gallery and Danspace Project and When We Were Pretty at Danspace Project. Other favorite dance lighting includes Castles, Agora and Approaching Something Higher for Doug Varone and Dancers (all at the Joyce); and Older Testaments, Subverse and To Lie Tenderly for David Dorfman (Joyce and B.A.M.). She is currently working on the Juilliard Centennial ballet with Eliot Feld. Other favorite work this year for Jane includes collaborations with Bang on a Can at the B.A.M. Opera House, Dame Edna on Broadway, Memory House with Diane Wiest at Playwrights Horizons, and exciting plays at the Guthrie, Arena Stage, Centerstage. Jane is a recipient of an NEA/TCG fellowship 2001-3 and currently of a MAP fund/Rockefeller grant. She received her MFA from NYU.