2010-2011 Season
Creative Team

ROMEO AND JULIET
Penny Metropulos, Director - Romeo and Juliet

Neil Patel, Set Design
Michael Chybowski, Lighting Design
Mathew J. LeFebvre, Costume Design
Victor Zupanc, Music Composition
Scott W. Edwards, Sound Design

Felix Ivanoff, Fight Direction
Marcela Lorca, Choreographer
Elizabeth Smith, Voice and Speech Consultant
Dakin Matthews, Dramaturg

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Ian Belknap, Director
Neil Patel, Set Design
Michael Chybowski, Lighting Design
Candice Donnelly, Costume Design

Felix Ivanoff, Choreography
Andrew Wade, Voice and Speech Consultant

Scott Palmer, Production Manager

Ian Belknap (Director, The Comedy of Errors) is the Associate Artistic Director of The Acting Company (The Lover and The Poet with Kevin Kline & Meryl Streep, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Henry V). He has worked on new plays with A.R. Gurney, Jeffrey Hatcher and Rebecca Gilman and has had the privilege to apprentice under several master directors including Mark Lamos and Doug Hughes.

Michael Chybowski (Lighting Design) Acting Company: Romeo and Juliet (09-10), Henry V, The Spy, Moby Dick Rehearsed, Tempest, Jane Eyre, Macbeth, Three Musketeers, Turn of the Screw, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Murder By Poe, Richard III. NY: Hair and Hamlet (Shakespeare in the Park), Lieutenant of Inishmore, Wit, Beckett/Albee.  Hewes, Lortel and Obie recipient for Sustained Excellence, Michael heads Brandeis’ theater lighting program.

Scott Edwards (Sound Design, Romeo and Juliet) Acting Company: Romeo and Juliet (09-10), Henry V. Scott has designed 65 Guthrie Theater productions plus extensive work at local theaters, Ballet of the Dolls and Minnesota Opera.  Production manager/sound engineer for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Awards: Outstanding Sound Designer (Minneapolis Star Tribune); Helen Hayes Award nomination (Arena Stage).

Felix Ivanoff (Fight Director) Acting Company productions include Romeo and Juliet (09-10), Moby Dick Rehearsed, Macbeth and Three Musketeers.  Actor, director and choreographer, he taught at Moscow Art Theatre and Holland’s Academy of Fine Arts. Currently Assistant Professor at Syracuse University’s Drama School, he has taught at Juilliard, SUNY-Purchase, Rutgers, Manhattanville and North Carolina School of the Arts.  MFA in acting from Moscow’s prestigious Vakhtangov School of Drama.

Mathew J. LeFebvre (Costume Design, Romeo and Juliet) The Acting Company: Romeo and Juliet (09-10), The Spy. Off Broadway: Two Trains Running (Signature, AUDELCO nominee), Bach at Leipzig (NYTW). Guthrie: 1776, She Loves Me, Pride and Prejudice, Wintertime, Merrily We Roll Along, School for Scandal. Regional: Milwaukee, Kansas City and Trinity Reps, Arizona Theatre, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Cleveland and Geffen Playhouses, Mixed Blood and American Players.

Penny Metropulos (Director, Romeo and Juliet) The Acting Company: directed Romeo and Juliet (09-10), adapted The Three Musketeers, directed Twelfth Night, Othello. Other directing credits include 19 seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she was associate artistic director for 12 years; Arena Stage; Berkeley Repertory; California Shakespeare Festival; Chicago Shakespeare; Denver Center Theatre Company; The Intiman; Syracuse Stage. Other adaptations include Tracy’s Tiger (from Saroyan’s novella), The Comedy of Errors: A musical. Originally an actress and singer, she trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Dallas Theater Center.

Neil Patel (Set Design) Acting Company: Romeo and Juliet (09-10), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, The Tempest, The Spy, Henry V.  Mr. Patel has worked extensively on and off-Broadway, Broadway, Regionally and for Opera houses in the United States and abroad. He’s twice been honored with an OBIE for sustained excellence. Neil is Production Designer for HBO’s In Treatment.

Elizabeth Smith (Voice and Speech Consultant, Romeo and Juliet) The Acting Company: The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew. NY Credits include: Cymbeline, Coast of Utopia, Rivals, Henry IV, Invention of Love, Twelfth Night, Ivanov, Arcadia, The Homecoming, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, London Assurance, Tommy, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast, Me and My Girl, Piaf, Dracula, Humble Boy, Importance of Being Earnest.  Regional: Shakespeare Theatre, D.C., LWT, ART, Hartford, Centre and Arena Stage, Guthrie, Glimmerglass Opera.  1996 John Houseman Award.

Andrew Wade (Voice and Speech Consultant, The Comedy of Errors)  Acting Company: Romeo and Juliet (09-10), Henry V. Former Head of Voice at Royal Shakespeare Company, Andrew works worldwide with numerous celebrities, movies and theatrical works including Shakespeare in Love and Lord of the Rings, The Musical.  He trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and is affiliated with The Guthrie and University of Minnesota.

Victor Zupanc (Music Composition and Direction, Romeo and Juliet)  Acting Company: Romeo and Juliet (09-10), Henry V. Over 250 plays including La Jolla Playhouse, The Guthrie, Playwrights Horizon, New Victory, BAM, Kennedy Center, San Diego, Missouri and Berkeley Reps, winning numerous major awards and honors.  Also China, Japan, Europe, South America, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.  Since 1989, resident Music Director/Composer at the Tony Award-winning Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis.