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Designers and Production Staff

 

Bruce Andrews (Sound Designer) is an experimental poet, sound designer, and political science professor and has performed and composed for dance, poets, and theatre.  As Musical Director for Sally Silvers and Dancers, he has created compositions, collages, and performance mixes of music and texts for two decades.

 

Ian Britton (Stage Manager) began his career with professional dance companies at Oakland Ballet. Since then he has stage managed and production managed for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Charleston Ballet Theatre, and The San Francisco Ballet, among others.

 

Kate Edmunds (Scenic Designer) has created work for Berkeley Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, Seattle Repertory, Steppenwolf, and the Manhattan Theatre Club.  Kate teaches set design at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

 

Scott Fraser (Sound Designer) has recorded or produced 200 albums of classical, folk, jazz, and avant-garde music, and mixed many live concerts throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Far East.  He has collaborated with Kronos Quartet since 1991 and designed for Saint Joseph Ballet since 1999.

 

James F. Ingalls (Lighting Designer) has designed six concerts for Saint Joseph Ballet since 1996.  Recent projects include Sylvia choreographed by Mark Morris (San Francisco Ballet), Tristan und Isolde directed by Peter Sellars (Paris Opera/Bastille and the Los Angeles Philharmonic), and Romance by David Mamet (Atlantic Theatre, New York).

 

Michael Jordan (Technical Director) received a bachelors degree in theatre from the University of California, Riverside and has since worked as a scenic technician and carpenter at local theme parks.

 

Ben Tusher (Production Director / Lighting Designer) has created lighting designs for nearly a dozen original dances commissioned by Saint Joseph Ballet since 2003.  His designs have been seen at theatres and festivals throughout Southern California and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.  Ben holds an MFA in design and has been an artist-in-residence and visiting assistant professor for the University of California, Riverside for the past seven years.

 

Jennifer Vaughan (Costume Designer) has designed for Saint Joseph Ballet since 1990, and for Charles Schulz’s Ice Shows, the 1996 Summer Olympics, and HBO’s Against the Grain, among others.