Danielle Pointe-Tezana has worked as fight captain for Grapes of Wrath and fight captain/choreographer for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy (Emerson Stage). She is also stunt coordinator of the upcoming independent film The Gathering Storm and has been the company fight director for New Majority Theatre since 2012. A recent graduate of Emerson College (BA in both theatre studies and English literature), Danielle is thrilled to be working with The Nora Theatre Company and wishes to thank Lee for the opportunity; and Ted Hewlett, her mentor, for all of his guidance thus far.
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Mary Bichner
Mary Bichner’s compositions and arrangements have appeared on MTV, CBS, and ABC. She was the recipient of a Somerville Arts Council Grant in January 2014. She was awarded Best Musical Score at the 2014 San Diego Film Awards for composing the score of the short film Just Desserts and named Somerville Artist of the Month in March 2014. Mary has perfect pitch and synesthesia. MaryBichner.com
Veronica Barron
Veronica Barron (Marjana, Ensemble) creates & performs physically exuberant theatre, using puppetry, clown, and the human body. With Central Square Theater, she has composed new music & vocal arrangements for Her Aching Heart and emcee’d the theater’s River Fest stage. She will also present new work in The Nora’s new “That’s What She Said” series. Other recent work includes playing maids & vaudeville girls in Ether Dome (Huntington Theatre Company); developing & performing two new works with Liars and Believers: Who Would Be King (A.R.T.’s Oberon) & ICARUS (National Puppetry Festival; New York Musical Theater Festival; Outside the Box Festival); and collaborating with Aimee Rose Ranger to create and perform Winning Higgins’s Love: A Clown Tragedy (Boston’s First Night, Puppet Showplace Theater.) Veronica holds a BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University, where her studies included collaborative playmaking, a physical approach to acting, and classical Indian dance-theater. veronicabarron.
Steven Royal
Steven Royal (Scenic Design) Directing credits include Altar Boyz , Bat Boy (1st Stage); Caesar and Dada (co-director with Lee Mikeska Gardner, Washington Shakespeare Company, world premiere); and Gypsy (Asst. Director, Signature Theatre). Recent scenic design credits include last season’s Grounded, Emilie, Her Aching Heart (The Nora), Broadway Bares 25 (Directed by Jerry Mitchell), Lincoln Center Originals (Directed by Lonny Price and Matt Cowart) and 12 Days of Christmas (Adventure Theatre, world premiere). Associate design for Adam Koch include: Sister Act (Ogunquit Playhouse), Hairspray (Syracuse Stage), Big Fish (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma). Steven has designed numerous traveling exhibits and displays including the worldwide tour of Harry Potter: The Exhibition and is the recipient of the 2015 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for Bat Boy: The Musical in Washington, DC. SRoyalDesign.com
Bryony Lavery
Bryony Lavery’s plays include Helen And Her Friends (1978); Bag (1979); Family Album (1980); Missing (1981); Calamity (1983); Origin Of The Species (1984); Witchcraze (1985); Her Aching Heart (Pink Paper Play Of The Year 1992); Wicked (1990); Kitchen Matters (1990); Flight (1991); Nothing Compares To You (1995); Ophelia (1996) and A Wedding Story (2000). Her play Frozen, commissioned by Birmingham Rep, won the TMA Best Play Award, the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award, was produced on Broadway where it was nominated for 4 Tony awards.