Directors & Designers

Christopher, both a scenic and costume designer, currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.  He originally designed both costumes and scenery for The Imaginary Invalid at OSF in 2011.  For OSF’s 2012 season Christopher is scenic designer on The Seagull, The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa and All the Way.  Over six seasons at OSF Christopher has designed scenery for The Language Archive, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Hamlet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Throne of Blood, Equivocation, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Clay Cart, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Romeo and Juliet, Two Gentleman of Verona and costumed Othello. Other credits include: The Clean House (Yale Repertory Theatre); Zorro in Hell (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse); Cloudlands, My Wandering Boy, The Beard of Avon, Hold Please (South Coast Repertory Theatre); Waiting for Godot, Living Out, Chavez Ravine, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (Mark Taper Forum); Electricidad (Goodman Theatre); also, Lincoln Center Theater, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Center Theatre Group, Kennedy Center, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, The Children's Theatre Company, among others. Hide «

ISF debut. New York Off-Broadway: The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theater Co.), A Simple Heart (Classic Stage Co.), Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theatre Co.) Off-Off-Broadway: Gabrielle Lansner Dance Co., Chashama, HERE, the Ice Factory Festival, Rattlestick Theatre, Present Tense Theatre, ChekhovNOW Festival, Tinderbox Theatre Group, Actors’ Studio, etc. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Denver Center, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Public Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Two River Theater Co., Barrington Stage Co., Dorset Theatre Festival, others. Television: The TODAY Show, Football Night In America, E! Network News, the Daily 10 (Art Director), Woodstock ‘99 (Production Designer). Film: Also Lies, The Good Wife (Production Designer) Other: Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus 134th Blue Tour (Art Director); Awards: Drama Desk, American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Award, Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Denver Ovation Award, Denver Critics Circle Award. Represented US at the Prague Quadrennial ‘99. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. www.davidmbarber.com Hide «

As always, Drew happily returns to Boise for his tenth season with the Festival, where he has previously directed The Woman in Black, The Seagull, The Crucible, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Spitfire Grill, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Fantasticks, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Much Ado About Nothing and I Am My Own Wife (co-production with Boise Contemporary Theater.) For BCT, he has also directed Tru, At Home at the Zoo and Souvenir. In NYC, Drew is currently the Resident Director of War Horse, produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain at Lincoln Center Theater. Previously on Broadway, Drew served as Associate Director of Simon McBurney’s revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Other New York credits include the off-Broadway premieres of Karl Gajdusek’s Greedy; Barbara Blumenthal Ehrlich’s Hitting the Wall; Adam Bock’s The Typographer’s Dream; Steve Murray’s This Passion Thing; as well as productions of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession for the Graduate Acting Program of New York University. For The Actors Company Theatre’s Salon Series, he has staged Man and Boy, A Shot in the Dark, The Confidential Clerk, The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse, and Roly Poly. Regionally, at North Carolina’ PlayMakers Repertory Drew has directed productions of Doubt, Frozen, Copenhagen, The Subject was Roses, Dinner with Friends, Sideman, W;t, and the musical Violet. For Portland Stage Company in Maine, his productions include Two Rooms, I Am My Own Wife, The Woman in Black, Lend Me a Tenor, The Misanthrope and W;t. He directed Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth at Perseverance Theater in Alaska, Nickel and Dimed for the Juilliard School’s Drama Division, Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at SUNY Purchase, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife for the University of Washington’s School of Drama and The Taming of the Shrew for University of Delaware’s PTTP. Drew received his BA from Stanford University and his MFA from the Graduate Acting Program of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of SDC and AEA. Hide «

Jesse Berger has directed across the country at Shakespeare Festivals in St. Louis (Merry Wives of Windsor), Arizona (All’s Well that Ends Well), the Hamptons (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Utah (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), and such theaters as Denver Center (Richard III), Old Globe (Othello), Pittsburgh Public (Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife, Life X 3, A Number, Circle Mirror Transformation), Barrington Stage (Absurd Person Singular, Sleuth), Washington Shakespeare Company (Marat/Sade—Helen Hayes Award.)  Raised attending plays at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Jesse received his undergraduate degree in theater from Southern Utah University/Utah Shakespearean Festival, began his professional career as an apprentice to Garland Wright at The Guthrie Theater, and matriculated as assistant director to Michael Kahn at The Shakespeare Theater in Washington, DC, before moving to New York to found Red Bull Theater, where he is artistic director and has directed Off Broadway productions of Pericles, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Edward the Second, Women Beware Women, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton, and The Maids.  www.redbulltheater.com Hide «

Raquel Davis is thrilled to be making her design debut on the beautiful ISF stage. Recent designs include: world premieres of Untitled Feminist Show (Walker Arts Center and Baryshnikov Arts Center). LEAR (Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company), A Bright New Boise (Partial Comfort Productions), Reading Under the Influence (Daryl Roth Theatre), End Days (Ensemble Studio Theatre), STRETCH: a fantasia (The Living Theatre), The Clean House (GEVA Theatre Center), Boom! (Perseverance Theater), and Gruesome Playground Injuries, A Permanent Image, Re-fraction, Norway and Namaste Man! (Boise Contemporary Theater).  BA Middlebury College, MFA NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  Raquel is the resident lighting designer at The O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford CT, and in her newest home, Boise Contemporary Theater.  She is excited to be a part of the BSU Theater Arts Department where she began teaching in 2011. She would like to thank the entire creative team and staff for their artistry and for welcoming her to Boise.  www.raqueldavisdesigns.com Hide «

21st season as producing artistic director of Idaho Shakespeare Festival.  He is also producing artistic director of Great Lakes Theater (GLT) in Cleveland, Ohio, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (LTSF) in Nevada.  This season he will direct Romeo and Juliet for ISF and The Two Gentlemen of Verona for LTSF.  In prior seasons he has directed Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, All's Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry the Fourth Part One, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, and As You Like It.  His work outside the Shakespearean canon includes, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Molière’s Tartuffe, Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, Nöel Coward’s Private Lives and Hay Fever, George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield. In addition to his work on the Festival stage, Charlie has adapted and directed twelve tours of Shakespearience as part of the Festival’s educational outreach program. 

Prior to joining ISF, he held the position of artistic director at the Sierra Repertory Theatre in California. He also has worked with such companies as The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, the Milwaukee and Missouri Repertory Theaters, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. 

Idaho Shakespeare Festival has garnered significant awards under Mr. Fee’s artistic leadership, including the 1995 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; the 1996 and 2006 FUNDSY awards; and the 2000 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2001, Charles was honored for his work as a director with the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.  

Charles is active within the community where he served as a member of the strategic planning committee for the Morrison Center, as producer of the FUNDSY Award Gala (‘96, ‘98 and 2000), and as producer of the 1996 Governor’s Awards in the Arts. Charles has served on the board of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Downtown Rotary Club and as a special lecturer at Boise State University. He received his BA from the University of the Pacific, and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. 

Charlie’s peripatetic life style is only possible because of the love and support of his wife Lidia and 17-year-old daughter, Alexa!

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Great Lakes Theater/ Idaho Shakespeare: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Fantasticks, Amadeus, Pump Boys and Dinettes, The Comedy of Errors. New York: Broadway: The Constant Wife (Roundabout Theatre Company, American Airlines Theatre); Off-Broadway: The Morini Strad, Olive and the Bitter Herbs, Buffalo Gal (Primary Stages); The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre Company); Kindness, The Blue Door, The Busy World is Hushed (Playwrights Horizons); Finn, Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse, Red Beads (Mabou Mines); Violet Fire (BAM Next Wave Festival); Three Men on a Horse, Incident at Vichy, The Triangle Factory Fire Project, Long Island Sound (TACT – Becket Theatre); Jump/Cut (Women’s Project); Oedipus at Palm Springs (New York Theatre Workshop); Afterbirth: Kathy and Mo’s Greatest Hits (Second Stage); Tongue of a Bird (New York Shakespeare Festival); The Bacchae: Torn to Pieces (Hopeful Monsters - LaMaMa Etc). Dance: Les Carillons (New York City Ballet); Number Nine, Ghosts (San Francisco Ballet); The Sleeping Beauty, The Wanderers (Royal Danish Ballet); Morphoses/ The Wheeldon Company: Rhapsody/Fantasie, Leaving Songs, Tears of St. Lawrence (Martha Wainwright in concert with Morphoses – NYC Summerstage), Lighting Manager and Designer 2009-10; Elsinore (Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, Russia); Rock Steady (Larry Keigwin), Fandango (Alexei Ratmansky) – Vail International Dance Festival, Jacoby, Pronk and Dancers (Jacob’s Pillow). Regional Theater: Alliance Theatre; ACT Theatre, Alley Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Asolo Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Virginia Stage Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Mark Taper Forum, Pioneer Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Company, LA Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra. Training: Yale School of Drama. Faculty: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Hide «

This is Joe’s 21st season at ISF and season number TWENTY doing Greenshows with Fool Squad partner, Tom Willmorth. Favorite ISF credits include: The 39 Steps, Greater Tuna, and A Tuna Christmas, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cloten in Cymbeline (reprised for Bartlett Sher's production at the Intiman Theatre). For Boise Contemporary Theater, he and Tom premiered their play, The Krumblin Foundation. Other BCT credits include: Waiting for Godot, Stones in His Pockets, and The Cherry Orchard. As The Fool Squad, Joe and Tom entertain local companies and private parties (www.foolsquad.com) and received the 2009 Boise Mayor's Award for Excellence in Arts Education. Joe earned his MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He chairs the Department of Theater and Speech Arts at The College of Idaho and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Joe lives in Boise with his little muses, Oriana and Kelly, and is grateful for and inspired by his other lovely muse, Stephanie. Hide «

Jeff is pleased to return to the Idaho Shakespeare Festival for his ninth season. Previous productions for ISF include last season’s Cabaret, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Into the Woods, all joint productions with Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland. Other ISF production designs include I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, The Spitfire Grill and Little Shop of Horrors. For Cain Park in Cleveland Heights, Jeff has designed a combination of scenery and lighting for productions including Tintypes, Bye-Bye Birdie, Damn Yankees, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver, Songs for a New World, Hair, Dreamgirls and the Cleveland premiere of tick...tick...Boom! For Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights, he has designed scenery for the Cleveland premieres of Closer, Wit, Refuge, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Take Me Out, The Last Five Years, The Blue Door and Blackbird. Jeff is the Chair of Theater and Dance at Baldwin Wallace University where he teaches courses in scene design, lighting design and VectorWorks. As the resident scenic and lighting designer for the program, recent production design work for Baldwin Wallace has included Rent, La Boheme, Titanic: The Musical, Passing Strange and Miss Elizabeth Bennet. Jeff holds an MFA in scene and lighting design from Southern Illinois University and he is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Jeff resides in Lakewood, Ohio with his partner Bob. Hide «

New York: A Supposedly Fun Thing... after David Foster Wallace (Daniel Fish), Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre), A Map of Virtue (13P), Lidless (Page73), After (Partial Comfort), There Are No More Big Secrets (Rattlestick), The Temperamentals (Daryl Roth), Enjoy! (The Play Company), Jailbait (Cherry Lane), On the Levee (LCT3 - Conductor, Pianist), Dov & Ali (The Playwrights Realm), The Cocktail Party (TACT), The Oldsmobiles (The Flea Theatre), The Americans, The Greeks (Juilliard), Emperor Antony, Tongue of a Bird (NYU). Regional: Pig Iron Theatre Company, People's Light & Theatre, The Arden Theatre Company, Weston Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, Two River Theatre Company, Todd Mountain Theatre Project, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, American Players Theatre. www.danielkluger.com Hide «

Ken is proud to be returning to ISF this season, where he has been choreographing violence since 1996. Mr. Merckx is the resident combat choreographer for A Noise Within (LA), Great Lakes Theater (Cleveland) and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. He is on faculty at Cal State, Fullerton and teaches and choreographs stage violence all across the country. Mr. Merckx received his BA from the University of Washington and MFA from the University of Illinois. Hide «

For ISF; The 39 Steps, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, The Woman In Black, Othello, A Tuna Christmas, The Seagull, The Comedy Of Errors, Greater Tuna, Measure For Measure, Arsenic And Old Lace, The Tempest, Love’s Labor’s Lost, King Lear, Julius Caesar. Mr. Metheny has also designed for Great Lakes Theater for several seasons. Regionally Russell has designed for Indiana Rep, Asolo Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, D.C., Goodspeed Musicals, Weston Playhouse. Recent productions: God of Carnage, My Fair Lady, Betrayal. Upcoming productions: The Two Gentlemen Of Verona for Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Jekyll and Hyde, The House That Jack Built, A Little Night Music for Indiana Rep. 1776 for Asolo Rep, and Doubt for Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Hide «

Star has been working with the Festival since 1977. Her designs include Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Henry V, Hamlet, The Three Musketeers, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, She Stoops to Conquer, Arms and the Man, Waiting for Godot, Quilters, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew. Her designs for Idaho Theater for Youth include Androcles and the Lion, Alice in Wonderland, No Fish in the House, Commedia de Lazzi, Little Lulu, Charlotte’s Web, Bremen Town Blues, Jack Frost, The Three Questions, Dreams of a Bird Woman, Feather on the Sea and The Boxcar Children. Also Dracula, Three Days of Rain, Drawer Boy, Tru, Animals Out of Paper, At Home at the Zoo and Shipwrecked! The Amazing Adventures of Louis DeRougemont (Boise Contemporary Theater) and Arms and the Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Macbeth (Great Lakes Theater Festival). Star’s designs were awarded and exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition 2003 and the World Stage Design International Exhibition 2005. She is a recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and is currently an Artist in Residence in Boise exhibiting as an installation artist. She is a member of USA, Local 829. Hide «

Michael recently graduated from the MFA in Performance Pedagogy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Certified Teacher and Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), and a member of AEA, AFTRA, the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, Fight Directors Canada, and SAG. His work as an actor, director, choreographer, and educator has taken him into regional theaters and schools around the United States. Michael’s most recent choreography credits include Macbeth for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Antony and Cleopatra for Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater, and Sweeney Todd for the University of Pittsburgh. Michael earned his BFA in acting from Wright State University and also serves as editor of The Fight Master, a bi-annual magazine published through the SAFD. Hide «

Helene is thrilled to return to the Festival for her nineteenth season having spent seven years working in the Festival’s administrative offices from 1993-2000. Her choreography for ISF includes A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Private Lives, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Fantasticks, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Arsenic and Old Lace, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Tuna Christmas, An Ideal Husband and last season’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Helene is also a choreographer for Balance Dance Company and is in her tenth year as managing director of Boise Contemporary Theater. Helene holds a BA in international politics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MFA in dance from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She was awarded a fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts for artistic excellence in 2006. Hide «

ISF debut. Other theaters include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Hartford Stage, Great Lakes Theater Festival, East West Players, Florida Stage, Geffen Playhouse, Atlantic Theater Co., Long Wharf Theatre, Cal Shakes, The Kennedy Center, Alley Theater, Honolulu Theater for Youth, Imagination Stage, Actors Gang, Cornerstone Theater Company. Dance companies include Diavolo Dance Theater, Momix, Parsons Dance Co., Ballet Florida, Demetrius Klein, Teatro du El and Xing Peds. Theme parks: Universal Studios and Knott's Berry Farm. Casinos: Treasure Island, MGM Grand and Buffalo Bill's. Museums: J. Paul Getty, Geffen Contemporary, Peterson Automotive Museum and the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. He has conducted school residencies on songwriting, community-based theater, Vaudeville and American Roots music in New York, Florida, Washington and California. Paul's work as a singer/songwriter has appeared in films, on recordings and in music venues nationwide. Hide «

Mr. Pufall is thrilled to be joining The Idaho Shakespeare Festival this season. Recent and favorite theatrical productions include: The Cherry Orchard, Gracie and the Atom, All My Sons, (Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland, OR.) Yeomen of the Guard, The Mikado, A Little Night Music, The Pirates of Penzance (Mock’s Crest Productions, Portland, OR); James Joyce’s The Dead, The Double Inconstancy, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Reed College, Portland, OR); Our Town, The Man of Mode, Waiting for Godot, Vincent in Brixton, Hello, Dolly!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (University of Florida); The regional premiere of Avenue Q, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Funny Girl (Forestburgh Playhouse, Forestburgh, New York). Other notable companies include: Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, FL and The Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico. Mr. Pufall holds an MFA in Costume Design and Technology from The University of Florida and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Theater/Costume Design for Boise State University. Darrin was recently recognized with a 2010 Portland Drammy Award and a Portland Area Musical Theatre Award (PAMTA) for his work on A Little Night Music (Mock’s Crest Productions, 2009). For more information please visit: pufallcostumedesign.com Hide «

Ann has worked as a voice and dialect coach in Boise for over fifteen years. At Boise Contemporary Theater some shows include Shipwrecked!, Tru, and Pavilion. She was the voice and movement coach last summer for The 39 Steps, and for Greater Tuna, and A Tuna Christmas. Ann works with Company of Fools in Hailey, including their productions of Violet and Syringa Tree. Ann directed The Krumblin Foundation and Eleemosynary for BCT. She has also directed the Boise State University productions of Metamorphoses, Tragedy…a tragedy, and Memorandum. Ann teaches voice and dialects in the Department of Theater Arts at Boise State University. Hide «

This is Gordon’s 9th season with the Festival as both actor and director. He has directed Amadeus, Twelfth Night, Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, and The 39 Steps for ISF. Other regional productions include Sleuth for the Court Theater and Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labor’s Lost for the Yugen Theater both in Chicago, The Misanthrope at Theater 40 in L.A., Hamlet and Merchant of Venice for the Attic Theater and Julius Caesar for the Hilberry Rep both in Detroit, Amadeus at the Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, A Chorus Line at the Riverside Theater in Florida and The Cherry Orchard and Speed-the-Plow as Artistic Director of the Snowmass-Aspen Rep. Closer to home he’s directed The Taming of the Shrew for the Idaho Rep, The Memory of Water and The Pillowman at Boise Contemporary Theater, his own adaptation of The Would-Be Gentleman at the University of Utah and Amadeus at the Old Lyric Rep in Logan, UT. Gordon has an MFA in Acting from West Virginia University and teaches acting and directing at Boise State University where his productions include, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tartuffe, Man of La Mancha, Pippin, and the recent Hamlet. Gordon is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society as well as the Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Hide «

Lisa Reynolds has been a performer for the past 15 years, most recently in Emily Mast's B!RDBRA!N as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time Program in Los Angeles, CA, Emily Mast's Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!) for Performa '09; The Unknown Williams at Target Margin Lab, and in Yael Kanarek Trigger Words at Parson School for Design. Lisa works as Project Coordinator for FuturePerfect, a new performance and technology initiative under Wayne Ashley and is also a NIC Certified ASL Interpreter for the Deaf. She has incorporated ASL in many past performances including such plays as Love Person, Signs of Change, and the film Basketball Diaries. She recently composed an ASL score for Alison O'Daniel's film Night Sky which was performed at both the Anthology Film Archives in NY, NY and as part of Pacific Standard Time in Los Angeles, CA and featured in Art Forum. With collaborator McKenna Kerrigan she created the original multi-media installation piece She Fell off the Face of the Earth (and then came back) which was presented in 2011 at 25 CPW Gallery in NY, NY. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College's Performance and Interactive Media Arts program, where she was a two-time recipient of the Brooklyn College GIP grant for the Art in Translation conference in Reykjavik, Iceland and the STRP Festival in Eindhoven, Holland. In addition Lisa holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts and has two years of theater training from Stella Adler Conservatory through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She will be a HMC Artist in Residency this August in Budapest, Hungary. A Boise native, she is happy to be returning to ISF, where she first began performing back in 1997. Hide «

Ken is from Los Angeles. Director/choreographer: Offenbach!!!, Bard Summerscape, NY; Good Soldier Schweik, Long Beach Opera; Last Resort (operetta, also wrote), REDCAT; the 99c Holiday Spectacles (seven seasons, also wrote), Bootleg Theater, LA; The Bloody Indulgent, feature film musical (also wrote). Choreographer: New York City Opera, New York’s Playwrights Horizons, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (seven seasons), Los Angeles Center Theater Group, South Coast Repertory, Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company (seven years), Michael Counts’ Gale Gates; music videos for Sanrio, Jamie Cullum. Performer: Bill Viola; Paul McCarthy; Permissible Union (also wrote) for L.A. Grand Performances; Orange Star in Orange Star Dinner Show (also wrote), Spiegeltent, NY. Numerous arts grants and commissions, including Plum Foundation, Good Works, Audrey Skirball-Kenis and LA Cultural Affairs. Hide «

Kim is pleased to be spending her seventeenth season with Idaho Shakespeare Festival. She designed Richard III in 1992 and has designed many productions since, including The Seagull, Othello, The Crucible, Measure for Measure, The Tempest (two times),The Spitfire Grill, Love's Labor's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew (two times), King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Tartuffe and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She is a frequent designer for Great Lakes Theater, and The Juilliard School, where she designs both theater and opera. Her work has also been seen at Boise Contemporary Theater, Playmaker’s Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Guthrie Theatre, Intiman Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theater, Portland Stage Company and The Acting Company. Kim holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and an MFA from Southern Methodist University. She is a member of the USA 829. Kim lives in New York with her husband Scott and their two beautiful daughters, Carly and Gemma. Many thanks to her dear friends Liz and Rick. Hide «

Peter has been with the Festival since 1992, where he composed music for The Comedy of Errors, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, Macbeth, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, Scapino!, Richard III and Romeo and Juliet; and songs and sound designs for most Shakespearean productions 1992-2008. He also has designed for numerous Shakespearience tours including The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth. Peter’s other credits include BCT’s Off The Record, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Norway, Tru, The Krumblin Foundation, Namaste Man, At Home At The Zoo, The Pavilion, I Have Before Me…Rwanda, No You Shut Up, God’s Ear, Souvenir, The Memory of Water, Stones in his Pockets, I Am My Own Wife, Fully Committed, The Underpants, Lobby Hero, The Cherry Orchard, Souvenir and True West; Broadway productions: Awake and Sing; Off-Broadway productions of Blood and Gifts, Pericles, Don Juan, Cymbeline (Royal Shakespeare Company), Waste, Twelfth Night and the original West End production of Breaking the Code. Peter’s regional credits include The Good Hope (Guthrie Theater); Intimate Apparel, Our Town, Homebody/Kabul, Nora, Titus Andronicus, The Servant of Two Masters, Namaste Man, Richard III, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Cymbeline (Intiman Theatre); The Singing Forest (Long Wharf); Loot and The Servant of Two Masters (Hartford Stage); and numerous works with Actors Theater of Louisville, Great Lakes Theater, Portland Stage Company, and Guthrie Lab. Peter’s sound design credits include several shows in London’s West End, including Sir John Gielgud’s final stage production The Best of Friends at the Apollo Theatre. Peter was nominated for a 2002 Drama Desk Award for “Best Music in a Play” for the Theatre for A New Audience production of Cymbeline. He holds a BA honors first-class in music from Oxford University, is a member of IATSE and of the Komyozan Dojo. Hide «

Sara is originally from Paris. This is happily her 5th collaboration with Jesse Berger. Previous collaborations: The Maids (Red Bull Theater), Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival of St Louis), June Moon (Dorset Theatre Festival) and Arcadia (NYU). Opera: Carmen (directed by Danny Pelzig), Orpheus in the Underworld, Cendrillon (directed by Marc Astafan), Butterfly (choreographed by Danny Pelzig, directed by JinYoung Kim, South Korea). Theater: Manuscript (Daryl Roth, directed by Bob Balaban) The Exonerated (Culture Project, directed by Bob Balaban), 8 seasons at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Richard III (directed by Terry O'Brien), Antony and Cleopatra (directed by David Muse), The Rivals (directed by Gia Fourakis) among others. Dance: Phoenix Rising (choreographed by Dwight Rhoden with Complexions Inc, New Victory Theatre), Sediment (Johannes Wieland, Jacob's Pillow). Film/TV: Levi's America campaign (directed by Cary Fukunaga), The Exonerated (Court TV, directed by Bob Balaban), The Peter Cooper Story (PBS, directed by Janet Gardner) She was the Associate Costume Designer for Anything Goes (designed by Martin Pakledinaz-- TONY nomination), and an Assistant Costume Designer for the film Jane Eyre (designed by Michael O-Connor-- OSCAR nomination). She herself has an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and is a Princess Grace Award Recipient. Hide «

Adam Wernick has been a composer, arranger and sound designer for twenty-five years. Known for his theatrical collaborations, his work has been heard in many venues, including The Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Denver Center Theater Company, Manhattan Theater Club, The Public Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Royal Shakespeare Company and many others. His commissioned concert works include chamber music, concerti, and works for voice and orchestra. His works have been performed by The Twenty-First Century Consort, Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, American Composers Forum and others. Wernick’s compositions have been supported by grants from The McKnight Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Independence Foundation, The Philadelphia Music Project, The Presser Foundation, The Henson Foundation and ASCAP. Hide «

This is Gage’s nineteenth season with ISF. He has designed sets for numerous productions including: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Amadeus, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). In 1993 and 1994 Gage designed the sets for ISF’s production of A Christmas Carol at The Morrison Center, and for eleven years he designed the sets for Shakespearience tours. For the past twenty-one years, Gage has been designing sets for both the stage and screen, a list of those companies include Great Lakes Theater Festival, Utah Opera, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, ChildsPlay, Pioneer Theatre Company, HBO, MTV, VH1, ABC, CBS, NBC, and ESPN. At University of Utah, Gage is chair of the Department of Theatre and head of the Performing Arts Design Program. He also is the recipient of a CableACE Award, for art direction for the Showtime film “Mastergate,” and his set designs have been displayed as part of the United States National Design Exhibit at the 1999 and 2003 Prague Quadrennial Scenography Exposition. Gage received his MFA in stage design from Southern Methodist University. Hide «

This is Tom’s 26th season with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, where he has trod the boards at Angell's Restaurant, the Plantation Golf Course, Park Center and the Warm Springs site. Some favorite roles include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozart in Amadeus, the Fool in King Lear, the Dromio twins in The Comedy of Errors, the title role in Scapin, and half the citizens of Tuna, Texas in Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas. This summer marks the 20th anniversary of Greenshow antics with the Fool Squad, Tom's comedy partnership with actor-writer Joe Golden. In 2010, Boise Contemporary Theater commissioned Joe and Tom's original comedy, The Krumblin Foundation. Tom is also the author of Shakespeare’s “King Phycus”, which premiered at Chicago's Strange Tree Group, and was recently published by Broadway Play Publishing. Tom is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s theater program, and a member of Actors’ Equity. He lives in Boise with his wife, actress Christina Lang. Hide «

Two seasons with ISF. This season: director and co-adaptor, The Imaginary Invalid. Last season: director, The Taming of the Shrew. Directing credits include: The Imaginary Invalid, The Servant of Two Masters, Breakfast Lunch and Dinner (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (Yale Repertory Theatre and OSF); The Winter's Tale (Ten Thousand Things); Michael Schlitt's Jesus Ride (The Marsh, SF); Alison Tatlock's Jolly Good Fellow (Chalk Repertory Theatre); Laural Meade's The Wide Open Ocean Ate Aimee Semple Whole (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Hysteria, Euphoria, DreamPlay (The Actors’ Gang, Los Angeles) Other credits: Resident Director, The Actors' Gang; Associate Artist, Cornerstone Theater Company; Assistant Director, The Clean House ( Lincoln Center Theater) Awards: Connecticut Critics Circle, Ovation, LA Weekly and Backstage West Garland Awards for Direction; finalist for the Allen Schneider Directing Award, CTG Robert Sherwood Directing Award, and the P.E.N. West Playwriting Award. Ms. Young is a proud member of SDC. Hide «