Production Team

**Jessica Love | DIRECTOR** – Jessica (*she/her*) is a member of Red Theater’s Artistic Cohort. Previous Red Theater credits: *The Pilon* (Director, 7 Jeff Award Nominations including Production and Director), *Kairos* (Assistant Director). Chicago Directing: *Festival of Unfinished Work* (Bramble Theatre), *Twisted Playfest* (Redtwist Theatre), and *When It Comes We Can Worry Then* (Three Brothers Theatre). Regional Assistant Directing credits: The Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Recipient of the National Stage Directors and Choreographers Award. MTSU Theatre. jessica-love.com

**Brynne Frauenhoffer | PLAYWRIGHT** – Brynne *(she/her)* is a Chicago-based playwright excited to be working with Red Theater for the first time. Her plays include Pro-Am (world premiere at First Floor Theater; Jeff Award for New Work; The Kilroy List), *Disillusioned* (upcoming world premiere at City Lit Theater, Great Plains Theatre Common’s 2026 New Play Festival, O’Neill Semifinalist, Blue Ink Award Semifinalist) and *Exorcise* (Relentless Award Honorable Mention). She has developed plays with the Goodman, Salt Lake Acting Company, Avalanche, Sideshow (where she was an Artistic Associate), The New Coordinates, Commission, Broken Nose, Black Cat, Adapt, and The Prop. She is a proud company member with First Floor Theatre. When she’s not writing, she’s usually watching horror movies with her wife. www.brynnefrau.com

Emily Marrazzo | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – Emily (she/her) is a Chicago based director and playwright who’s proud to make her Red Theater debut! Emily has directed several one acts and new play workshops around town, most notably with Eclectic Full Contact, Factory Theater, and with her own organization, Community Is. Additional credits in producing, stage and production management include those with Theo Ubique, Kokandy, Porchlight Music Theater, and other local houses. She has also had a handful of readings and workshops produced of her work- one of them being with Readings at Red! If you’re interested in reading her work, you can search for it on NPX under Emily’s full name. Enjoy the show!

Sarah Patisaul | STAGE MANAGER – Ella (they/she) is excited to make their Red Theater debut as a new Chicago resident. She has spent the last four years serving as an Assistant Stage Manager with the Virginia Theatre Festival including the critically acclaimed 2023 production of Cabaret. Other highlights include working with Carnegie Hall, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Playmakers Repertory Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Burning Coal, and Queen City Opera. Sarah would like to thank her family, friends, partner and two cats at home for their support. UC-CCM BFA Stage Management IG: @SLPatisaul

Rose Johnson | SCENIC DESIGN – Rose (they/them) is a Chicago based scenic designer. Previous credits include: How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Bottle Fly (Jeff Nominated), Wolves, Agnes of God (Jeff Nominated), and The Great Khan (Redtwist Theatre), Big Time Toppers (Theatre L’Acadie), TL;DR, The Secret Garden (Theo Ubique), 12 Ophelias (Strawdog), S. Paradox (BWBTC), Hamlet (Red Theater), Murder Rewrote (Hell in a Handbag), MedeaMedeaMedea, The Hatmaker’s Wife (Theatre Evolve), Party at the Pantheon, Lane Call (Factory Theater), On the Twentieth Century (Blank Theatre). Rose is an ensemble member at Redtwist Theatre.

Suzanne Barnes | PROPS DESIGN – Suzanne (she/her) is excited to be back at Red Theater! She is a Chicago-based props designer, artisan, and scenic artist from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she earned her BFA in Theatre Design and Production from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She was recently the props designer for Red Theater’s production of The Seagull, and the scenic artist for Kitty James and Destiny’s Trail to Oregon at the Factory Theater. Suzanne would like to thank her family, friends, and especially her partner Theo for their love and support as she shares and pursues her love for theatre and the arts. scenicbysuzanne.com

**Amina Gilbert | LIGHTING DESIGN** – Amina (*she/they*) can most often be found in the office or behind the booth at The Neo-Futurists, where she serves as their Lead Technician. Lighting Design credits include *Fire House*, *Purim 5785* (Chicago Shpatz), *Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors*, *Wyrd*, *Spring Awakenings* (Lazy Susan), *The Pillowman* (Concrete Content), *Astronaut Group 1* (Griffin Theatre), *Refracted Light*, *Relatively Speaking* (Eclectic Full Contact). She loves the forest. aminagilbert.com

**kClare McKellaston | COSTUME DESIGN** – kClare (*she/her*) is a Chicago-based Costume Designer, Stylist, and Wardrobe Technician. She is an Assistant Professor in Costume Design at Columbia College Chicago. Chicago: *Don't Quit Your Daydream*, *Best Kept Secret* (Second City Chicago Mainstage); *TL;DR* (Theo Ubique); *Cats, Fiddler on the Roof* (Music Theater Works)*; The Last Five Years*, *The Drowsy Chaperone* (Metropolis PAC); *Scarcity*, *Gary* (Redtwist); *At Home at the Zoo*, *Glass Heart*, *Peyton Place* (City Lit). She has also served as a designer and faculty member with the National High School Institute at Northwestern University (Cherubs). kClare is a proud member of IATSE Wardrobe Local 769. www.kClare.com

**Kate Schnetzer | SOUND DESIGN** – Kate (*she/her*) is proud to be working again with Red Theater after sound designing *The Seagull*. Chicago sound credits include *Happy Birthday Mars Rover* (Sandbox Theatre Collective); *Maybe Tomorrow* and *Smokefall* (Wild Door Theater); *A Picasso* (Elsinore, A Theatre Ensemble); and *Socks & Co., The Red Lion, Refracted Light, Relatively Speaking,* and *Patchwork IV & V* for Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, where she is a company member and serves as Marketing Manager and Resident Sound Designer. Kate is also a director, production manager, actor, poet, and an alumna of Indiana University. kate-schnetzer.com

**AJ Mueth | TECHNICAL DIRECTOR** – AJ (*he/him*) is a Chicago-based freelance Technical Director and is excited to be returning to Red Theater for another season. Select Technical Direction credits include *The Seagull* and *The Pilon (*Red Theater), *Into The Woods*, *Cinderella*, and *Anatomy…* (West Virginia University), *Fun Home* and *August: Osage County* (Clinton County Showcase). In addition to Technical Direction, AJ previously worked for Hudson Scenic Studios assisting in the construction and automation of *Maybe Happy Ending* on Broadway and select projects with Disney. He is grateful for the continued support of his family and friends.

**Phoebe Huggett | CHARGE ARTIST** – Phoebe (*she/her*) is a scenic designer trained at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama with a background of scenic construction and painting as the foundation of her work. She continues to practice these skills, viewing design as an opportunity to push her abilities and to push herself to understand new situations and ideas through research. Phoebe is deeply invested in crafting a world when she designs. Her process is focused on environmental storytelling that creates a display of the forces at play in the work for actors and audience to exist in. This extends beyond just theatrical scenic design and into interests in other environmental storytelling and designs.

Skyler Simpson | POSTER ARTIST – Skyler (she/her) is a visual artist based in Chicago, IL. She received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2024. After receiving her BFA from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 2018, she worked as a painting intern at Anderson Ranch Arts Center during the summer of 2019. Skyler’s work has been featured in New American Paintings, Booooooom, and she has exhibited in shows throughout the United States. www.skysimpson.com