Two Elizas

JACK GOLDEN (Scenic Designer) is a young, award winning, designer based out of Manhattan. Recent designs include: Powerhouse (Off-Broadway), Winnie the Pooh (Takeover, Chicago, Off-Broadway, Tour), Life’s Work (Vivid Stage), and  The Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Curtain Call). Assistant/Associate: Death Drop (Upcoming Off- Broadway), Sesame Street (Off Broadway), On Your Feet (National Tour), Macbeth (Merrimack Rep), Art of Burning (Huntington/Hartford Stage). MFA University of Maryland, College Park. www.jackcgolden.com. @jcgoldini

RACHEL BUDIN (Lighting Designer) is very happy to be returning to Luna Stage for TWO ELIZAS. Previously she designed the lighting for VITA AND VIRGINIA, REPARATIONS and TILT THE UNLIT CANDLE. Ms Budin teaches at Ramapo College of NJ in the Design/Technical Concentration of the Theater Program and also Designs professionally in regional, and New York City theaters. In addition to Luna Stage her work has been seen at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, FL, Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, NY, Denver Center Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Company, Oregon Shakespeare Company, Milwaukee Rep., Lake George Dinner Theater, Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, CT as well as numerous dance and opera companies.

DEBORAH CANEY (Costume Design) has been designing costumes for over 25 years. She has designed costumes at regional theaters around the country, and has worked at Broadway and off-Broadway theaters. She has been designing costumes at The Luna Stage Theatre Co., in West Orange, NJ, since 2008.Most recently she designed at Luna Stage, Torn Asunder, written by Obie Award & Outer Critics Circle Award winning playwright, Nikkole Salter and directed by Kennedy Center Award winning director, Lisa Strum. Other recent credits include: The Chamber Opera, The Beautiful Bridegroom, directed by Karen Driscoll at The Alexander Kasser Theater; Ain’t Misbehavin’ directed by 2019 TONY Award Winner André DeShields at NJPAC and The Crossroads Theatre Co; Look What A Wonder, written and directed by Walter Robinson at Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center.

DYLAN HUNTER (Sound Design) is a theatre-maker and sound-designer in New Orleans. Big shout out to Jenny and Luna Stage for bringing him into this lovely project, and to Shannon and Oscar for being the reason for everything. Dylan is a company member of Goat in the Road Productions and has been seen and heard onstage for the last decade in the various and sundry shacks, bars, and warehouses of the New Orleans devised theatre scene.

MICHELE CORREGGIO (Stage Manager) Previously with Luna Stage, Michele has stage managed Richard II, and Torn Asunder. She is the Production Coordinator for The Scranton Shakespeare Festival, and has recently stage managed their first pantomime Snow White and the Seven Scranton Miners. She is a Rehearsal Assistant for Central School Dance in Glen Rock, NJ.  Michele graduated from Montclair State University in 2020 with her BFA in Stage Management.

MAXIM SAMAROV(Composer) is an award-winning composer with an eclectic style that speaks directly to audiences’ emotions and shared humanity. His compositional voice draws inspiration from such influences as film soundtracks, verismo and Shostakovich. His commitment to storytelling through music has manifested in many of his pieces, particularly opera. Samarov’s newest work, opera Behrman's Masterpiece expands the boundaries of queer representation in opera.   Samarov's piece Birth of a Culture is slated to premiere with the Louisiana Philharmonic in 2014. His cantata Ars Moriendi was a winner of the American Prize for Orchestral Composition in 2020, garnering much praise. Composer Kevin Scott said the work “grips the soul and mind of the listener and performers alike….” An accomplished conductor, Samarov is the co-founder and music director of the New Orleans Chamber Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Russia, he lives in New Orleans with his wife, Tanya, and their son, Julian, and serves as Orchestra Director for Tulane University. 

AMANDA DUFFIN (Cellist)  is an artist, composer, and multi-musician from Boston, MA. She is currently a Sophomore studying music at Loyola University New Orleans. Previously she has played in her high school’s pit band for productions of Les Miserables, Sister Act and Beauty and the Beast, and most recently played “Jules/Cellist” in Loyola’s production of Melancholy Play where she composed all of the music and performed. She is also a part of Loyola’s Symphony Orchestra and is featured on cello in Josiah Shillow’s upcoming debut EP. She is so thankful to have been a part of this show and hopes you all enjoy!"

ADAM KOPLAN (Dramaturg) is currently serving as the Director of Performing Arts at The Westminster Schools. Adam is the founding artistic director of The Flying Carpet Theatre Company (FCT). Under Adam’s leadership, FCT premiered 24 productions, toured to over 19 states and across Europe. Recent writing commissions: 1001 Nights along with collaborators Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez for Twentieth Century Fox. Some favorite ATL productions as director: The Pitmen Painters, Perfect Arrangement and world premiere of The Dancing Handkerchief - a collaboration between Adam, Robert Lopez, and Geoff Sobelle - all at Theatrical Outfit. 1001 Nights: A Love Story About Loving Stories at Center for Puppetry Arts won two Suzi awards (best TYA production, best TYA ensemble). His production of Alpin Hong: Chasing Chopin appeared at Lincoln Center as well as played for over 11,000 people across the US on tour. His NY production of Rising to the Tap was named “Top 10 Dance-Performance Pieces of 2017” by Huffington Post. Currently an adjunct professor at Emory’s Dept. of Theatre teaching “Intro to Directing.” Training: M.F.A. from the University of Washington, B.A. from Swarthmore College. Ecole Jacques Lecoq. Member: Lincoln Center Director's Lab, Writers Guild of America East.

GRACE HARMON (Rehearsal Stage Manager) is an artist, writer, and historian from Gonzales, Louisiana. After graduating from Tulane in 2020, she has worked in the film and theatre industries as an assistant in various forms. She is especially interested in unearthing historically oppressed narratives and translating them into a medium to be shared with the public. Projects include Roleplay (Goat in the Road Prod.), Emancipation (Dir. Antoine Fuqua), The Family Line (Goat in the Road Prod.), and her very first short film, “Anointed,” completed last year at an artists’ residency in Normandy, France (Berridge Programs).