Stephen Lewontin (Miniature Buildings) is a photographer, painter, and engineer who has collaborated for more than 20 years with the Underground Railway Theater on puppets and sets for numerous productions, including Creation, Alice’s Adventures Underground, Galileo, and Arabian Nights. In 2013 he designed and built a 15-foot tall puppet of Toussaint L’Ouverture for the URT production of Roots of Liberty, starring Danny Glover as Toussaint. The village of miniature houses for the set of A Christmas Carol is the product of a lifelong fascination with the department store holiday window displays, model train sets, dioramas, and other miniature glowing worlds. Stephen’s photographs have been published in many newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, The Boston Review, and Popular Photography. He was winner of the 1984 Boston Globe and Kodak International photography prizes.

As of November 2017.

Susan Dibble (Choreographer) is a dance maker, teacher and painter. She is the Louis, Frances and Jeffrey Sachar Professor of Theater Arts Department at Brandeis University. Her areas of expertise, among many, include movement for the actor, historical dance, movement styles, modern dance, composition and choreography, clown, mask, Rudolf Laban Movement Theory, and history of dance and movement training. She is the director of DibbleDance Theater and has performed her work for over 35 years in New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont as well as numerous times at Shakespeare & Co. (Lenox, Mass.) in the program “DibbleDance”. Susan is a founding member of Shakespeare & Co. where she is a master teacher and choreographer. She has choreographed for the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Berkshire Theatre Group, Phoenix Theatre Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Nora Theater, Súgán Theater, Madison Repertory Company and numerous theaters in NYC. Before Brandeis, she taught at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, the Denver Center Performing Arts Center, University of Ohio, University of Utah and Webster College. She also traveled to Orvietto, Italy where she taught in a theater and movement workshop sponsored by Fordham University. Susan has presented lecture demonstrations on dance, theater therapy, and visual arts. “Shakespeare Honors the Three Centers of the Body” is an article written by Susan Dibble in Movement for Actors published by Allworth Press.  Susan received the 2006 Leonard Bernstein Festival of Creative Arts Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts at Brandeis. Susan has shown her paintings in galleries in the Berkshires and at the Arlington Center for Arts, Mass.

As of November 2017.

Abby Shenker (Properties Co-Designer) is happy to return to CST, having just designed the set for The Nora Theatre Company’s The Revolutionists. Abby is a scenic designer and props master. She works throughout greater Boston for a variety of professional companies, including Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Props: Julius Caesar, Exit the King) and SpeakEasy Stage Company (Props: Men On Boats). She is a graduate of Emerson College.

As of November 2017.

Mark Bruckner (Sound Designer) is a New York-based Innovative Theater and Audelco Award-winning composer and music director, and a Henry Hewes American Theatre Wing sound design nominee.  Known for his work in new play development and musical theatre adaptations, he has received commissions from off-Broadway, regional theaters, colleges, and producing organizations across the country. Recent highlights include:  Original music, sound design, and wearable audio for Fen by Caryl Churchill (The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts); the 2016 premiere of Privatopia by Maria Efsthatiadis  (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center); The God Projekt by Kevin Augustine and Lone Wolf Tribe (LaMama, ETC); the 50^th anniversary production of Martin Duberman’s In White America, and the world premiere of Amira Baraka’s final play, The Most Dangerous Man in America (New Federal Theater, NY); original music, sound, foley design and performance for the NY premiere of The Service Road, by Obie-award winning playwright Erin Courtney. In Boston Mr. Bruckner’s work has been featured in productions at the Boston Playwright’s Theater and Boston University. He is grateful to the artistic team and company of A Christmas Carol for offering this opportunity to re-imagine and reinvent a classic.  Wassail!! MarkBruckner.net