During his 50 years in the business, Lewis Brown has earned a reputation as a costume designer extraordinaire from coast to coast. Brown earned a BA in art from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), then did two years of graduate studies in theatre before being drafted into the Army. He got his start as a designer in television before moving to New York City in the late 1950s. Soon he was doing costume design for theatre, opera and ballet.

Mr. Brown has worked throughout the U.S. and abroad, from Broadway, to the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota, to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and many other places in-between. His Broadway credits include 1994’s The Government Inspector, 1991’s Mulebone and 1968’s Jimmy Shine.

In addition to accolades from critics, Brown has won a number of awards for his designs over the years, including a Drama-Logue Award for Candide in 1995, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Cyrano de Bergerac in the 1970s.

Since coming to the U.S. in 1991, Narelle Sissons has made a name for herself as an inspired set designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at major regional theatres across the U.S. A native of England, Sissons is a graduate of Central St. Martin’s School of Art and Design and The Royal College of Art in London.

She designed the set for Broadway’s 1997 All My Sons, presented by the Roundabout Theater Company, and for the original Off-Broadway production of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive. She also has designed for numerous regional theatres in this country and abroad. Her work has been nominated for Drama Desk, American Theatre Wing and Helen Hayes awards. She is a recipient of the Garland Award and the Leon Rabin Award.

Now an associate professor of design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Sissons also continues to design regularly.

Heather Carson has designed lighting in the US and internationally for over 150 productions in theatre, opera, dance, concert and video primarily in New York downtown theatre and European avant-garde opera.  Highlights include twenty-three years with Richard Foreman, most recently The Idiot Savant starring Willem Dafoe at The Public Theatre; 15 years with Elizabeth Streb Ringside; and the Olivier award-winning The Histories (Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1&2, Henry V, Henry VI Parts 1,2 &3 and Richard III) for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and the West End for which she received the 2008 Falstaff Award for best lighting design.  Upcoming:  La Bohème for Scottish Opera and Turandot for Portland Opera and Welsh National Opera.  She was head of the lighting programs at Penn State and Cal Arts and has taught at NYU; Smith College; Bard College; Sci-Arc; UCSD and UCLA.  For her installation work with light she has received the 1998/99 Rome Prize, a 1997 Skowhegan Art Program Fellowship, a 1998 and 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures, a 1999 Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts grant and a 2006 Durfee Foundation Grant.  She is represented by Ace Gallery, Los Angeles where she had her first solo exhibition this past October entitled light/ALBERS and will be in a group exhibition this May at Novalis Contemporary Art in Torino, Italy.

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