Karen Lordi-Kirkham has extensive experience directing in both regional and academic settings. After 8 years as the Executive Artistic Director of Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake, N.Y., she now serves as the coordinator for the Adirondack Theatre Festival and director of the annual touring Shakespeare production for Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake. She graduated with a MFA and DFA from the Yale School of Drama, where she was the artistic director of the Yale Summer Cabaret.

A professional lighting designer since 1993, Trui Malten lights theatre, opera, dance and performance pieces. She is currently based in Florence Italy but, - has passport, will travel. Trui has a long-standing collaboration with the New International Encounter -NIE- an international theatre company based in Cambridge. Shows include: Hansel and Gretel; The Snow Queen; Snow White; I will be Everything and Beauty and the Beast. In September 2022 she lit A Grand Soft Day, a theatre piece for 4-year olds about the weather, a collaboration between NIE's director Alex Byrne and Marc MacLochlainn, from Branar Teatar in Ireland, which is currently very successfully touring Ireland and the UK. She has lit a lot of opera lately: Romeo and Juliette - Berlioz, for David Finn, choreographed by Sasha Waltz in Łódź Poland; Il Matrimonio Segreto - Cimarosa, for which Trui also designed the sets, with director Matelda Cappelletti in Pescara; Queen of Spades - Tchaikovsky, for Jennifer Tipton, directed by Richard Jones at Palau de les Arts, Valencia; Little Black Cat – devised by the Cambridge Youth Opera, with director Caroline Coetzee; Cunning Little Vixen - Janacek, with director Eleanor Burke for HGO at Jackson’s Theatre London; Blue Beard’s Castle - Bartok, with Eleanor Burke at Grimeborne, the Arcola Theatre London; Tamerlano - Handel, with director Dionysios Kyropoulos for CHOC in Cambridge; Carmen - Bizet, with Eleanor Burke for CUOS in Cambridge. Earlier she premiered Nora and Vera, two ballets choreographed by Stina Quagebeur for the ENB. In Palermo she designed Euthalia by Louisa Stella, directed by Matteo Bavera & Thea Dellavalle. In Norwich she designed sets, lights and costumes for the first outdoor production after lockdown: Tatlin’s Tower, by Evan Yionoulis, directed by Karen Kirkham, set below the model of the tower at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. This fall she’ll design sets and Lights for Angels in America also directed by Karen Kirkham. This production will be their second collaboration on the piece! In September Trui designs sets and lights for Another Goodbye, a solo piece written and performed by Adie Mueller, which is planned to tour the UK. In an earlier collaboration with Adie Mueller, Trui developed and designed My Heart, My Heart - Live Poetry Jukebox, a poetry performance project that toured the UK for five years. In November she will light Eugen Onegin directed by Eleanor Burke for HGO at Jackson’s Theatre London. In December Hansel and Gretel with NIE will play at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. Over the years she has assisted on a number of transfers to London, Naples, Valencia, Tokyo, Vienna to name a few, for lighting designers such as Jennifer Tipton, Chris Akerlind, David Finn and Steve Strawbridge. In 2022 Trui assisted Jennifer Tipton on To Kill A Mockingbird, which ran 18 months at the Gielgud Theatre on London's West End. In 2015/16 she assisted Christophe Forey on the European tour of Norma starring Cecilia Bartoli. Ms. Malten studied lighting design with Jennifer Tipton and set design with Ming Cho Lee at the Yale School of Drama. Trui Malten is a professional member of the Association for Lighting Production and Design, ALPD.

Jojo Siu is a USA 829 costume designer who has worked both nationally and internationally, in film, opera, theatre and dance. She is a huge advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion, and loves to tell stories, above all. Her work includes The Whitney Album, a premiere with Soho Rep in NYC, Spring Awakening with East West Players in LA, Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Joy Luck Club, and Bright Star among many others. This will be her first project with Dickinson College and she is so excited to collaborate with the faculty, staff, designers, and students on this important re-telling of a piece of our history.

Juli Bounds has served as Costume Studio Manager at Dickinson College since 2012. She spends her summers working as a First Hand at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah where most recently she worked on costumes for Emma: The Musical. Juli studied art history and theatre design at the University of Pittsburgh. She enjoys making pom poms and putting googly eyes on things in her spare time.

Jason Nedrow is pleased to continue his 13th year with Dickinson College in the theatre and dance department. Jason has worked as a technical director and scenic carpenter since 1998. He holds a B.A. from Penn State University and a M.L.A. from McDaniel College. Jason is proud to supervise the department scene shop and teach students to focus on creative ways to construct and deconstruct theatre scenery through recycling and keeping materials out of the trash. He lives in Mechanicsburg and has two daughters, Addison and Samantha. Sam is a first year Dickinsonian.