| Jimmy Bohr (Director)
directed the original NY and LA productions of Alan Bowne’s Beirut.
(Drama-Logue Award) He has directed and developed many new plays at
NY’s Ensemble Studio Theatre and MCC. His classical directing
work has been seen at The Roundabout Theatre, The New Jersey Shakespeare
Festival, The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, The Walnut Street Theatre,
The New Harmony Project, Fleetwood Stage, and Wagon Wheel Playhouse.
He was Casting Director for TV’s Guiding Light, Another World,
and As the World Turns. He also teaches at NYU, AMDA, and The
School for Film and Television. He holds an MFA in directing from FSU.
Jeff Rowlings (Set Designer) could
not be more pleased to be back in the Northside Theatre. For nearly
a decade (1987 to 1996), Jeff was the Production Manager and Resident
Designer at the Magic. Design highlights during that time include A
Moon for the Misbegotten, The House of Yes, Why We Have a Body,
Say Grace, Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill/Thomas Hearings, and
A Park In Our House. Since leaving the Magic, Jeff was the
Producing Director and Resident Designer at San Diego Repertory Theatre,
produced R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the
Universe in San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle and is currently
working as Production Supervisor at American Conservatory Theatre.
Jim Cave (Light Designer) has recently
designed lights for Denis Johnson’s Psychos Never Dream
for Campo Santo/Intersection, Josh Kornbluth’s Love &
Taxes, Word for Word’s The Fall River Axe Murders,
and Nova Antiqua’s production of choreographer Mark Franco’s
Caesura. He received a 1998 Garland/Drama-Logue Award for his
design of John O’Keefe’s Shimmer at Magic Theatre,
where he also designed productions of Mud, Hunger, Why We Have a
Body, Prospect, Wyoming (Dean Goodman Award for Excellence), The
American In Me, Topographical Eden, Ted Kaczynski Killed People with
Bombs, 8 Bob Off, and Blue Surge. Jim has worked with
Campo Santo since its inception and has also worked extensively at Aurora
Theatre. In 1992 he received a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award
for his work on the Eureka Theatre's premiere production of Tony Kushner's
Angels in America.
Todd Roehrman+ (Costume Designer)
is pleased to be designing once again for the Magic Theatre. Previous
costume designs for the Magic include The Sex Habits of American
Women, Kissing the Witch, and Brontë. Other credits
include productions for The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Berkeley
Rep, San Jose Rep, San Diego Rep, Intiman Theatre Co., San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival, the Exploratorium, Marin Theatre Co., Shakespeare
Santa Cruz, Sacramento Theatre Company, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Shakespeare
Festival/LA, The Matrix Theatre Co., and Pacific Dance Ensemble. Mr.
Roehrman was honored with a 2001 Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle
Award, several Drama-Logue awards as well as nominations from the LA
Drama Critics Circle, Dean Goodman Choice Awards, and the Lester Horton
Awards. Mr. Roehrman received his MFA from California Institute of the
Arts and currently serves as Professor of Costume Design at San Francisco
State University.
Steve Romanko (Sound Designer) is
an award winning sound designer and filmmaker living and working in
San Francisco. His screen credits include over 100 features including
Saving Private Ryan and Fight Club. He also runs 13th
Generation Films, directing his own productions, and is finishing a
short animated documentary. Steve credits his illogical artistic existence
to his stable and loving wife Kara, and their two cats Alex and Sophie.
Klahr Thorsen (Choreographer) recently
moved to San Francisco from Chicago where she had worked extensively
as an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher. Chicago
choreography credits include Tomfoolery with Open Eye Productions
and Shadow of the Master with Sulacco Productions. Klahr was
an accomplished DanceSport Competitor in both the Latin and Standard
Dance Divisions. Some teaching credits include Roosevelt University
DanceSport, University of Chicago DanceSport, The Chicago Cultural Center,
and The Grant Park Summer Dance Series. Klahr was recently seen on stage
in A Man of No Importance at the New Conservatory Theatre Center.
Estria (Graffiti Artist) began spray
painting in Hawaii in 1984 and has been painting in Northern California
since 1986. Since 1994, he has taught graffiti classes and lectured
on graffiti’s social and political impact. He garnered national
attention with his arrest for graffiti in 1994; appearing in CNN,
The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, and The
National Enquirer. Estria operates and co-owns Tumi’s Design
in Oakland, California, which develops graphic communications and business
applications for print and web primarily for socially and environmentally
conscious organizations. Some of his past mural clients include Sega
America, MTV, Toyota, McKesson Corporation, Nokia, the Mills Corporation,
President Bill Clinton, and McDonald’s. In his spare time Estria
is the lead instructor of Visual Element, the EastSide Arts Alliance’s
mural workshop.
Karen Runk* (Stage Manager) is happy
to be working with Magic Theatre again.
* Member of Actors' Equity Association
AEA, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers
in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the
art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity
negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits,
including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO,
and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing
arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. ww.actorsequity.org.
+ Member of United Scenic Artists Local
829. United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters
for the American Theatre.
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Stephen
R. Culp Born and raised in the mountains of Colorado, Stephen
received degrees in Directing and English Literature from Regis University.
After moving to New York to attend the National Shakespeare Conservatory,
he began writing plays in between acting jobs. Other plays he’s
written include: Kitty, Let’s All Clap, Life
on Pluto and Decadent Lawyers in Heat. He is a member of
the Dramatist Guild and is represented by Bret Adams, Ltd.
