The CREATIVE Team:
Consulting Director: Max Hunter
Max Hunter is the Artistic Director of The Bridge Production Group, through which he has directed and/or performed in “The Blue Room” (WhiteBox, NYC), "Richard III" (Fourth Street Theatre), Carol Brown’s “Hedda" (world premiere commission, Robert Moss Theatre), and “Red Light Winter" (Robert Moss Theatre). The Bridge Production Group has also produced the original movement piece The Sonnets, CRASH Theater’s TaRaRaBoom: A Three Sisters MishMash (Robert Moss Theatre), and instillation pieces at the Gowanus Loft and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. New York acting and directing credits include The Pearl, Metropolitan Playhouse, 54 Below, City Centers Encores!, with readings at the NYTW, Abingdon Theatre, National Black Theatre of Harlem, and Fire This Time Festival. Regional credits include the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, New London Barn, and Opera North. Education: Dartmouth College. For more information, please visit www.maxhuntersite.com and www.bridgeproductiongroup.org.
Set Designer: Hannah Cooke
Hannah Cook is a freelance set designer, technical director, and art teacher for children. Her work in both set design and construction has been seen in such venues as the Gym at Judson, the PIT, Under St. Marks, Actors Fund Arts Center, the Connelly, Soho Rep, Rattlestick Playwrights, 3LD, Irondale, The Acorn, among others. She is the resident set designer for Brooklyn Acting Lab in Park Slope and she regularly works at Tiffany & Co.® developing window displays. Education: Muhlenberg College (BA), Queen Mary University of London. www.hannahclarecook.com
Lighting Designer: Stacey Derosier
Stacey Derosier is a NYC based lighting designer who just completed her MFA at NYU Tisch. Her recent credits include: Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me?: A Love Story (a new opera by Jeffrey Smith), 1969: The Second Man (music by Jacob Brandt & book by Dan Giles), and upcoming new play by Jonathan Payne The Revolving Cycles Truly & Steadily Roll'd.
Costume Designer: Katja Andreiev
In addition to designing a fair bit of Chekhov, Katja has also served as a language and adaptation consultant, accent/pronunciation coach, and dramaturg on various productions thereof. Other areas of interest include new work, and educational and outreach theater. She has previously worked for the Theatre Development Fund, sharing their goal of bringing theater to a wider audience, and is a frequent collaborator with the Atlantic Theater Company. Recent Designs Theater- Uncle Vanya ( dir. Anya Saffir Atlantic Theater Company Conservatory), Dinner with Georgette ( dir. Elena Heyman, New York Theater Workshop), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( Excellent Creatures Inc.), This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing ( Atlantic Theater for Kids) Film- VR Food ( dir. Malcolm Mills, Malcolm Mills Productions), Interpretation of Dreams (Samsung Virtual Reality/ Sensorium Inc.), The Bit Player: Claude Shannon ( dir. Mark Levinson, IEEE Productions).
Dramaturgy: Tatyana Khaikin
Tatyana has been working as an interpreter/translator for almost 30 years. Recent translations include Out of the Blue by Vladimir Zaytsev (co-translated with Robert Duffley); The Mountaintop by Katori Hall; 3 one-acts by young American playwrights for the Book Wings project at the University of Iowa (co-sponsored by the American Embassy in Moscow). Since the early 1990s she has been actively involved in many educational and theatrical projects between the US and Russia. In the 1990s she worked as an interpreter for many State Department-sponsored seminars for Russian legislators, journalists, judges and medical professionals. In the early 2000s she was a Managing Producer for V. Dolgachev's US tour of The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel and Managing Producer for the US tour of Sergey Yursky's one-man show Old Friends. She has worked with many successful directors and playwrights on both continents. In the US she has worked with Oleg Efremov, Roman Kozak, Adolf Shapiro, Marina Brusnikina, and Alla Sigalova. In Russia she has worked with Janos Szasz, John Tiffany, and Steven Hoggett. She has served as First Assistant to the Dean of the Moscow Art Theater School, overseeing international exchange programs between Russia and the US: a semester-long program with the National Theatre Institute; a graduate program with the American Repertory Theatre Institute; summer programs with Wayne State and Butler University; and a three weeks’ introductory course with Fordham University. She currently works as an interpreter for director Dmitry Krymov's master classes at Yale University and the New School.