Junghyun Georgia Lee is a Korean-born NYC-based designer. She has worked for Audible Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Ma-Yi, Public, Soho Rep., The Play Co., Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theater Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in The Park, Alliance, and Syracuse Stage. She was nominated for Outstanding Set Design for Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. Junghyungeorgialeedesign.com @jgldesigncompany  

Susan Tsu is a renowned designer who has worked coast-to-coast at 44 theaters and opera companies, returning frequently to companies including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Quantum Theatre and City Theatre. Memorable international productions include the award-winning hit musical Godspell, The Joy Luck Club, a benchmark collaboration between Chinese and American companies, and The Balcony at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Tsu is well-known as an international curator and her own designs have been exhibited at the Lincoln Center Library and McNay Art Museum. She has garnered some of the industry’s highest awards, and her work is represented in over a dozen books and countless publications. 

Solomon Weisbard has created original works in drama, opera, dance, installation, and music across the U.S., Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia. Highlights include Otello (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany); Il Trovatore (Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy); Oedipus (Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Greece; Ancient Theatre of Pompeii, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, and Teatro Mercadante di Napoli, Italy) all with Robert Wilson; Macbeth (directed by John Doyle at Classic Stage Company, NYC); The Shape of Things (created by Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC); Duat (Soho Rep, NYC); and Men on Boats (World Premiere: Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, NYC). Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Scenic/Lighting Design at Portland State University and earned his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. 

Previous collaborations with Desdemona Chiang include The Winter’s Tale (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Pride and Prejudice (Pittsburgh Public Theater), and M. Butterfly (South Coast Rep.). Broadway: Goodnight Oscar (upcoming, Belasco Theatre), The Minutes (Cort/Studio 54), 33 Variations (Eugene O’Neill Theatre) Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: The Clean House (Lincoln Center), Milk Like Sugar, and BFE (Playwrights Horizon). Regional credits include multiple productions with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Court Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and La Jolla Playhouse. Based in Chicago. Andre is an ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre Company.  

Is a lifelong Tolkien fan and is thrilled to be collaborating on The Hobbit. His 100+ sound designs at Pittsburgh Public Theater include the world premieres of Billy Strayhorn; Something to Live For, L’Hotel, The Chief, Harry’s Friendly Service, The Glorious Ones, and Paper Doll; original music for Marjorie Prime, A Doll’s House Part 2, Hamlet, Equus, and Circle Mirror Transformation; as well as designs for Sweat, The Diary of Anne Frank, Thurgood, Red, and Little Shop of Horrors. Other collaborations include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Reduced Shakespeare Co., Asolo Rep, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse, NBA Ballet in Tokyo, TheaterWorks Hartford, The Huntington, Long Wharf Theatre, and Dallas Theater Center.

Select regional credits include King James (Cleveland Play House), Somewhere Over the Border (People’s Light), Fat Ham (TheatreSquared), Frida… A Self Portrait, Young Americans, Two Trains Running, and Schoolgirls…(Pittsburgh Public Theatre), POTUS, Native Gardens, The Garbologists, What the Constitution…, Cambodian Rock Band, The Burdens, Where…Bus?, The Absolute Brightness…, Wild With Happy, Feeding the Dragon, Smart Blonde, and Sam Bendrix…Bon Soir (City Theatre Company)

Desdemona Chiang has credits including The 5th Avenue Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Studio Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and ACT Theatre. Desdemona is affiliated with AFI DWW+, Sundance Institute, and the Drama League. She is a member of the SDC Executive Board, and she is a winner of the Princess Grace Award and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise. She earned her MFA in Directing from the University of Washington.  

Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep, subsequent productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens, City Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, and Jungle Theatre/Theater Mu, with an upcoming national tour. Her play The Great Leap has been produced at Denver Center, Steppenwolf, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, Pasadena Playhouse/East West Players, InterAct Theatre, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She’s a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, a New Dramatists member, a Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, and a Playwrights Realm playwright. TV credits: Pachinko (Apple), Soundtrack (Netflix). Upcoming TV credits: Interior Chinatown (Hulu), Billions (Showtime), The Sterling Affairs (FX). She is developing pilots for Apple and Netflix. Current commissions include Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. She has a B.A. from Yale and an M.F.A. from UCSD. laurenyee.com