SCENE PARTNERS

Scenic Designer

Riccardo Hernández has designed over 250 productions at most leading regional theaters and operas across the US and internationally and over thirty productions at New York Shakespeare Festival / The Public Theater. Vineyard: Incecent. Broadway: The Thanksgiving Play, directed by Rachel Chavkin; Jagged Little Pill (Tony Nomination Best Scenic Design of a Musical); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Indecent; The Gin Game (Sets and Costumes); The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; The People in the Picture; Caroline, or Change; Topdog/Underdog; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Parade; Bells Are Ringing; Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk; The Tempest. Other theater: Lempicka directed by Rachel Chavkin (La Jolla Playhouse & Williamstown); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Jesus Hopped the A Train, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Signature Theater); Notes From the Field (A.R.T. and Second Stage); Toni Stone (Roundabout); Mlima’s Tale, Grounded, The Library, Oedipus El Rey (Public Theater); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire directed by Rachel Chavkin, The Invisible Hand and Red Speedo (NYTW); Admissions (Lincoln Center Theater). Co-Chair, Theater Design at Yale School of Drama. 1992 Yale School of Drama. www.riccardohernandez.com

Costume Designer

Broadway: The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window. Off-Broadway: The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM), Camp Siegfried (Second Stage), A Case for the Existence of God (Signature), Russian Troll Farm (Virtual, Obie Award), Moby Dick (A.R.T), Octet (Signature), Continuity (MTC), Enemy of the People (The Guthrie), I’ll Get You Back Again (Roundhouse), The TEAM’s Mission Drift (National Theatre of London), Film/TV: The Quiz Lady, Coda (Academy Award, Best Picture), An American Pickle, The Disaster Artist, Tallulah, “Saturday Night Live” (Associate CD). Other: MFA/NYU TSOA, the TEAM, www.bnadesigner.com

Lighting Designer

Work includes the world premieres of Harry Clarke (The Vineyard, Lortel Award), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre, Drama Desk nomination), and The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall (Signature NYC, 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). Other New York work includes: Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, and Fires in the Mirror (Signature NYC); Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Bluebird Memories featuring rap-artist Common (Audible Theatre); and Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge by Greig Sargeant and Elevator Repair Service (The Public). His work in dance includes: Where We Dwell and Chasing Magic by Ayodele Casel; Rhythm Is Life by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards; and Lifted, choreographed by Christopher Rudd for American Ballet Theatre. On Broadway, Edwards was the associate to lighting designer Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he is also an assistant professor of lighting. Alancedwards.com.

Sound Designer

Vineyard: God’s Ear. Off-Broadway: My Broken Language and Night is a Room (Signature), Log Cabin, Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse, The Big Meal and Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons), Mary Jane and The Invisible Hand (New York theater Workshop), The Harvest, Slowgirl, and What Once We Felt (LCT3), Cardinal (Second Stage), Saved (TFANA) and more. Regional: ACT, Guthrie, Long Wharf, Berkeley, Yale Rep, ART, Intiman. Honors: Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Sound Design (Mary Jane and Slowgirl). Connecticut Critics Circle Award (January Joiner), NEA/TCG Career Development Program.

Video Projection Designer

DAVID BENGALI is a projection and media designer based in New York City. Selected recent and upcoming designs include: Broadway: Water for Elephants; The Thanksgiving Play; 1776. Off-Broadway includes: Walk on Through (MCC); Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Signature - Henry Hewes Award, Drama Desk Nom.); Anthony Rapp’s Without You (New World Stages); Monsoon Wedding (St. Ann’s Warehouse); The Visitor (The Public Theater - Lortel Nom.); Circle Jerk (Fake Friends - Obie Award, Drama League Nom.); Einstein’s Dreams (Prospect/59E59 - Drama Desk Nom.); Van Gogh’s Ear (ERC - Drama Desk Nom.); The Great Leap (Atlantic). Regional including: La Jolla Playhouse, A.R.T., Yale Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Alliance. National Tours: Peter Pan; 1776; Rockin’ Road To Dublin. David was also a 2017-2019 Arts Fellow at the Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts. MFA: NYU.

Hair, Wig & Make-Up Designer

Vineyard Theatre: Checkers. Broadway: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window; Original cast of Hadestown; Escape to Margaritaville; Time and the Conways; Marvin’s Room; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Sweat; Oh, Hello; The Heidi Chronicles; On the Town; A Night with Janis Joplin; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; American Idiot; Irena’s Vow. TV and Film Credits include: Key Hair Stylist for Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Freeform’s “Everything’s Trash”, Showtime’s The Humans. Hairstylist on Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building, and Netflix’s Hustle. Leah won a 2022 Emmy for her work on Annie Live!

Props Designer

Previously with the Vineyard: Good Grief, Harry Clarke, Gloria, Gigantic, White Girl in Danger. Broadway: The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window, The Thanksgiving Play, Leopoldstadt, Birthday Candles. Recent Credits: The Wanderers, Primary Trust (Roundabout), Camp Siegfried (Second Stage), English, Kimberly Akimbo (Atlantic Theater). Nickelodeon, Walt Disney Productions, SNL. Henry Hewes Design Award.

Video Producer

Anne is a theater and film producer. Credits include: The Thanksgiving Play (Broadway), Grownup (Associates), The Gold Room (HERE), Incomplete (Hulu), The Snakes (HBO Max), Others (Slamdance FF), Swimming (Out on Film), Human Interest (SeriesFest). Anne also works as an actor. She has a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Acting from NYU.

Fight Choreographer

J. DAVID BRIMMER (he/they) has choreographed some stuff. For the Vineyard: Gloria, This Day Forward. Selected Broadway: Hangmen, American Buffalo, Pass Over, Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Be More Chill, Grace, Speed the Plow, Thérèse Raquin, Long Day’s Journey into Night. Selected NY premieres: Wet Brain, Tambo and Bones, Downstate, Socrates, Fairview, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Is God Is, Yen, An Octoroon, We Are Proud To Present, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, Blasted, Bethany, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe, as well as the Red Bull Theatre’s productions of The Government Inspector, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling. “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” G. Fox.

Tapestry Design

PATRICIA MARJORIE is a Brazilian multidisciplinary theatre artist based in New York with a focus on directing, costume and props design. Recent works: Costume Design for Simon and His Shoes’ and Modern Swimwear directed by Meghan Finn; The Time Machine directed by Joshua Gelb (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School). Set Design for RE/MEMORI (Of Hair Land & Sea) by Nambi E. Kelley (WP theater). Props for Public Obscenities and Notes On Killing Seven Oversight… (Soho Rep); Wolf Play (MCC and Soho Rep); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout Theatre Company); Montag (Soho Rep); Ulysses and The Seagull (Elevator Repair Service); Eva Luna (Repertório Español); 7 Minutes (Waterwell); Black Exhibition by Jeremy O. Harris directed by Machel Ross. Patricia has also recently performed in Mrs. Loman directed by Meghan Finn, directed What Will Become Of Kaaron? and had her own work produced as a playwright, A Song To Call The Spring, all at The Tank.

Music Director

NEHEMIAH LUCKETT (he/him) has worked in the music departments for The Scottsboro Boys and The Landing at The Vineyard. Broadway: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Other NY credits: Primer for a Failed Superpower, Jazz Singer, Where We Stand, Sistas, Wedding Band, and Amani. Nehemiah is also a composer of choral music (Secular Mass, Kyrie 201, Words of Bayard Rustin), orchestral/symphonic works (Requiem for Arctic Ice: The Northernmost Part), musical theatre (Brick by Brick, Triple Threats, A Burning Church, Adia and Clora Snatch Joy), and opera (Love Out of Time). Undergrad: Sarah Lawrence College. Grad: Hunter College.

Dialect Coach

ELIZABETH McGUIRE has worked as a vocal and dialect coach in film, television, animation, radio, on and Off-Broadway, and regional theater for over 35 years and is a former Professor at the Yale School of Drama (DGSD). Beth’s favorite theater projects include: Broadway productions of A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, and Daphne Rubin-Vega, directed by Emily Mann; Eclipsed by Danai Gurira on Broadway, directed by Liesl Tommy. Other favorite productions include: He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy at Theatre for a New Audience, directed by Evan Yionoulis; Twelfth Night at Yale Repertory Theatre, directed by Carl Cofield. Her most recent media projects include A Quiet Place: Day One (set for release 2024); Lady in the Lake (set for release 2023 Apple TV); Us; Black Panther; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Marvel’s Avengers: War For Wakanda (Video Game). Beth lives in NYC and has a private teaching and coaching practice.

Choral Arranger

ORION JOHNSTONE (they/he) is a Trans faggot wizard, community minister, theatermaker, sex educator, muckraker, lover, and ever-in-process abolitionist. Their highly collaborative theater work is an extension of their ministry, and they primarily work as a director and composer. Recent theater highlights include: Composer for Light Shining In Buckinghamshire at NYTW with director Rachel Chavkin, Co-Director of Diana Oh’s {my lingerie play}: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! at Rattlestick, Directing Fellow in TransLab at the Public/WP. They studied Theater at NYU-Tisch and Justice Ministries at Auburn Seminary. You can learn more about their work-love and lineages at: www.orionjohnstone.com

Production Stage Manager

RACHEL A. ZUCKER (They/Them) is thrilled to be returning to Vineyard Theatre! Past Show: Lessons in Survival: 1971. Broadway: SIX, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Prom, True West, Pretty Woman, Farinelli and the King, Indecent. Select Off-Broadway: JOB (Soho Playhouse); Kinky Boots (Stage 42); The Shed: Misty, HELP; The Public Theater: Tiny Beautiful Things, Twelfth Night, Plenty, Southern Comfort, Grounded; Shakespeare in the Park: Hamlet, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline; New York City Center: Working: A Musical, Roadshow; New York Theater Workshop: Lazarus; Signature Theatre Company: Curse of the Starving Class. MFA: Stage Management, Columbia University. Insta: @rzucker37

Assistant Stage Manager

Vineyard: Lessons In Survival: 1971. Broadway: Wicked, King and I (LCT Revival). Off-Broadway: Between the Lines, Which Way to the Stage, Othello, Old Hats. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Barrington Stage, Berkshire Theatre Group, George Street Playhouse, Arden Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Skylight Music Theatre. Love and deep gratitude to family and friends for their continued support. Member Actors' Equity.

Assistant Stage Manager

Vineyard: This Land Was Made. Other NYC: When We Get There (York Theatre); KIN (WP Theater); Smart Blonde (59E59); The Imbible (New World Stages); Titanique (The Green Room 42); Fish In A Tree (Theatre Row); Women on Fire (Royal Family); Anne of Green Gables, Part I and II (Royal Family); You, Me, I, We, (Royal Family). Tours: Little Black Dress and The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Musical. Regionally: Lyric Rep, Hangar Theatre, Geva Theatre, The Rose Theater, and Chester Theatre. BFA: UW-Milwaukee. @tydanhaus