Gywnne Clark, Designer and Costume Director
Gywnne Clark, designer and costumer, has a BFA in Costume Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her professional experience includes the Area Stage in Washington, D.C. , and several shows on and off Broadway. Gwynne has been with LMU for the past eighteen years and has designed and created the costumes for plays, musicals, dance concerts and performance projects.
John Garofalo, Master Electrician
John A. Garofalo, Assistant Technical Director and Master Electrician, has been Assistant Lighting Designer at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, Lighting Designer for the Harvard Ratcliffe Summer Theatre and Master Electrician at the American Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre of San Francisco and the La Jolla Playhouse. He has an MBA from Loyola Marymount University and a BA from Boston College. John teaches the Stage Craft labs.
Jamie Higgins, Administrative Assistant
F. Jason Sheppard, Technical Director
F. Jason Sheppard has designed sets for Loyola Marymount productions including Noises Off, Once In a Lifetime, A Raisin In the Sun, and Macbeth. Off campus he has designed sets for several companies in Los Angeles. Some favorites include Beast On the Moon (Long Beach Playhouse), The Architect (The Gascon Theater), and Modigliani (Buffalo Knights). Jason has also stage managed and directed several plays in L.A. Jason has worked as Technical Director for the Department of Theater Arts and Dance for the past five years.
Dan Weingarten, Lighting Designer
Dan Weingarten has created lighting for over 200 productions including concert dance, awards shows, dinner theater, trade shows, and straight plays. He designed lighting for the highly acclaimed company Circle X, the 1998 American Choreography Awards, the 1999 LA Weekly Awards, and Nijinsky Speaks off-Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theater in NYC. Dan has also designed productions of Great Men of Science, Numbers 21 & 22, The Rover, Show and Tell, Louis Slotin Sonata, Fathers and Sons, and In Flegrante Gothicto.
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