is a New York based designer and director/creator of new performance works. She has collaborated with Monica Bill Barnes on dozens of shows over the past decade. Additional scenic design credits include 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. Kelly currently spends her days art directing at NBC for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Human Company, which is devoted to the creation of new physical theatre works. With Human Company, she has developed and directed Orpheus and Eurydice (2007), Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (2009), and Against the Dying of the Light (2010). www.humancompany.org
Jane Coxhas designed with Monica for more than a decade, and the collaboration is central to her creative life. Jane also designs opera (most recently at Lucia for Houston Grand, La Fenice and Sydney Opera), and theater. New York theater includes Broadway and designs for MTC, Roundabout, Public Theatre, B.A.M., Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Signature Theatre. Jane has a long-term collaboration with choreographer Doug Varone, with whom she was awarded a Bessie in 2007. She teaches theater design at Princeton University.
Mary Ellen StebbinsRecent Lighting Design Credits NYC: That Time, Hold Music, One Arm and a Leg (Sightline Theatre) Good (BCAP), Chicago: Greg Moss's The Argument (Interrobang Theatre). 2011 USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award, 2009 Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellow. M.F.A, Boston University. Mary Ellen lives in New York City and graduated from Harvard College. www.maryellenstebbinsdesign.com