ARTISTIC TEAM

Izmir Ickbal ( Scenic Designer ) is a multidisciplinary theater designer who currently serves as an assistant professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama. He has also previously taught at Alfred University, St. Bonaventure University, and Southern Connecticut State University. Ickbal has designed more than 60 productions locally, regionally and internationally, at large theater spaces such as the Mark Taper Forum for Center Theater Group in Los Angeles; the iconic Auditorio de Tenerife in Spain; at premier national venues in Singapore such as the Esplanade Concert Hall and the National Gallery of Singapore; at the tiniest off-off-Broadway spaces the size of a postage stamp such as Theater C at 59E59 theaters in New York City; and to bustling community outdoor audiences with the Elm Shakespeare Company in Connecticut. Others include the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Company One Theater Boston, The Tank, BRIC House, New York Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, National Black Theatre, LAByrinth Theatre Company, Kitchen Theater Company, Redhouse Performing Arts Center, The People’s Theatre Project, and Theater for a New Audience. As a designer and artist, Ickbal aims to give voice to the under- and/ or misrepresented, seeks to de-colonize euro-centrism in theater, and believes theater is for all. He is interested in reclaiming the narrative of cultural evolution in cultures and societies that have hitherto been perceived as primitive, crude, and inferior. In 2019, he received nominations for Best Scenic Design at the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards and the Elliot Norton Awards in Boston. Ickbal graduated with an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. More info: izmirickbal.com

Amaan Khan (he/him) (Costume Designer) is a senior theater design and technology major from Benton, ME. This is Amaan’s second time designing costumes for a Syracuse University Department of Drama mainstage production. Previous credits include costume design on Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (director Puaseisei Patu-Tanielu), costume design on Lungs (director Maxwell Evans), costume/scenic design on Eurydice (director Savannah Devlin), and costume design on As You Like It (director Rodney Hudson). Amaan would like to thank his family for supporting him, as well as his professors who helped him along the way. @amaankhandesigns.

Sarah Schultz (she/her) (Lighting Designer ) is a senior theater design and technology major with a concentration in lighting design and a minor in information management and technology through the I-School. Other Department of Drama lighting credits include Sender (mainstage), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (studio proj-

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ect), and Lungs (studio project). She is so excited for audiences to see this wonderful show.

Kevin O’Connor (Sound Designer) is currently in his 14th season working for Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama. He graduated from St. Lawrence University with a B.A. in music in 2008. Most of Kevin’s sound design credits have been with the Department of Drama over the past decade and some of his favorites are Bright Half Life (2021), Romeo and Juliet (2020), Good Kids (2019), We Are Proud to Present... (2019), The Baltimore Waltz (2018), Laura and the Sea (2016), A Flea in Her Ear (2016), The Spitfire Grill (2016), Measure for Measure (2015), and Stepping Out (2014) Kevin also designed Danny, King of the Basement, Miss Electricity, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane for the Syracuse Stage/Department of Drama Bank of America Children’s Tour. Besides sound design, Kevin has also worked as the A1 position, controlling the audio console/live mixing most of the musicals over the past 13 years for Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama including Disney ’ s The Little Mermaid, Matilda the Musical, Disney’ s Beauty and The Beast, The Last Five Years, Elf the Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, Next to Normal, The Wizard of Oz, Ring of Fire, Berlin to Broadway, Mary Poppins, Nine , The Spitfire

Grill, Peter Pan, Kiss Me, Kate, Avenue Q, Hairspray, Parade, Spring Awakening, Seussical, Violet, Irving Berlin’ s White Christmas, Merrily We Roll Along, Quilters, The Cradle Will Rock, and Cabaret. He was also able to work as the A1 for Thoughts of a Colored Man during its Syracuse Stage run before it moved to Broadway.

Shannon Lamb (she/her) (Associate Director) is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Her most recent roles include Bertha, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Rachel Twymon Sr, Common Ground Revisited (Huntington Theatre). Selected theatre credits: Letters to Kamala (WAM), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (UMASS Theater), It Happened in Little Rock, Because of Winn Dixie (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Temptation in Pendemoniun (Cherry Lane Theatre), NYC (world premiere); Building The Wall at Academy of Music (rolling world premiere); Jar the Floor, Gee’s Bend, Mary Poppins, and The Full Monty at Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Smokey Joe’s Café, Little Shop of Horrors , and Annie at Murray’s Dinner Playhouse. TV/film credits include Mighty Real, The Dave Chapelle Show, This Revolution, The Empty Hand, and Fight Knight. Career highlights include singing the national anthem at Madison Square Garden and appearing on the cover of American Theatre Magazine for the world premiere of It Happened