Frank DenDanto III: lighting Design and visual artist, received his MFA in Design from NYU's Tisch School. Select NYC credits include Full Circle's Solar Powered at the New Victory Theater, Blind Alley at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Only You at the Jewish American Theater, Shadow Box at the Hudson Guild Theater, Title of Show for NYMF, People Are Wrong at PS122 and Acts of Love at the Kirk Theater. He has designed for Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Karen Finely, Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, John Fleck, Deb Margolin, Ann Magnuson, and John Kelly and Sarah Jones. Dance Credits include work with Sarah Michelson, Lava Love, Stacy Dawson, David Neumann, and the White Oak Dance Project and of course two decades with Bridgman/Packer Dance. His regional credits work at Stage Works in Hudson NY, the Berkshire Theater Festival, New York Stage and Film and Delaware Valley Opera and Half Moon Theater Co.
Awards for his light installation/sculptures include First Runner Up in Light Forums 98, and a Jerome commission in 2002. His work and designs have been displayed at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Museum of Art and Architecture and The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, The ICA in Portland ME and the Basilica in Hudson NY. He is co-founder of Mother’s Milk Inc., a nonprofit arts support organization, based north of NYC, supplying production support, workshop and rehearsal space for theater and dance in NY.
When not working to support or create works of art, Frank designs lighting for retail, commercial and museum spaces. In his free time he enjoys building full size whale skeletal articulations with his brother Dan in ME that can be seen at the Nantucket Historical Society, Phillips Exeter Academy, Seacoast Science Center and Harvard University.
Christopher Metzger is a Brooklyn based designer working in theatre, opera, and dance. Designs for CLD include: Kamila, Veiled, Ru, Treize en Jeu, Hera’s Wrath, and Naděje. His work with the company has been seen at the Beijing International Contemporary Dance Festival, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, American Dance Guild, and Danspace Project. Recent designs include: "Little Gem" (Irish Rep), Orlando (AADA), Sweat (Mobile National Tour, Public Theater), Harlequin & Pantalone (Dorrance Dance), LIFE SUCKS., Happy Birthday, Wanna June, Enemy of the People (Wheelhouse Theater), La Traviata (Philharmonia of New York), West Side Story (Sioux City Symphony), Tosca (Opera Roanoke), Sehnsucht (Jack). Associate credits include: Sweat (Broadway), Falsettos (First National Tour), The Public Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, Theatre for a New Audience, Glimmerglass Opera. Christopher’s work in television includes, Apple TV’s, Dickinson. MFA, NYU. Proud member Local USA 829. www.christophermetzgerdesign.com
Karen Boyer designs and builds costumes in NYC. Past and recent collaborators include choreographers Catherine Galasso, Faye Driscoll, Sidra Bell, Abigail Levine, Sarah Dahnke, nicHi douglas, Katy Pyle, and Sunny Hitt; Opera Columbus, Fresh Squeezed Opera, and theater makers Yangtze Rep, the New Wild, Object Collection, harunalee, Little Lord, Pan Asian Repertory, and Target Margin Theater. BFA: Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA: NYU Tisch. karenrachelboyer.com
Jesse Seegers is a New York-based spatial practitioner working between architecture, graphic design, writing, editing, publishing, and research practices. His hybrid creative practice includes; designing and fabricating pneumatic/inflatable environments commissioned for events, performances, parties and temporary social encounters; teaching graphic design and publishing at New York University in the Tandon School of Engineering's Media and Gaming Network (MAGNET) and at The New School for Social Research in the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism MA program as well as the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design. He maintains a practice writing, editing and consulting on architecture, art, design and technology for publications, institutions and cultural organizations as a balance between both mental and tactile labor as well as technical and artistic faculties. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and has written about architecture, art, design, and technology for publications in print and online including: PIN-UP, REAL Review, The Architect’s Newspaper, TANK, Frog, DAMn°, and Volume, among others.