BURKE BROWN ‘s recent designs include Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size at the NYSF- Public Theater, Studio Theatre in DC and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin; Going Down Swingin’ at the New York Musical Theater Festival; Mark Lamos’ production of Lulu at the Yale Rep; The Flight of Icarus for the Soho Think Tank at the Ohio Theatre; and Falk Richter’s God is a DJ and Alex Knox’s Eye for the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts (Summer Cabaret). Recent music designs include the CD release party of Greta Gertler’s “Edible Restaurant” at Joe’s Pub and Offiong Basey’s A Moonlit Evening. Recent dance designs include the Ballet Pro Musica Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Recent exciting collaborations include assisting Jennifer Tipton on David Gordon’s Uncivil Wars: Collaborating with Brecht & Eilser at the Kitchen, NYC and assisting Matt Frey on Tan Dun’s The Gate at BAM. Burke Brown also worked with Christine Sciulli on the Mabou Mines production Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting.

Other lighting designs include: 365 Days/ 365 Plays: Week One (World Performance Project); Savage/Love & Tongues (Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts: Summer Cabaret); Hansel und Gretel (Opera Theatre of Yale College); The Foreigner, Spider’s Web, Appalachian Christmas Homecoming, Self Help (Flat Rock Playhouse); Jazz Like a Drug (Juggerknot Theatre Co.); The Just Assassins (Dreamer’s Theatre); Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Woman in Black (Temple Theatre); Richard III, In the Red & Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Layla & Majnun, The Real Thing, MSN Dream (Yale School of Drama); Sincerity Forever, Hotel: Eight Rooms Philadelphia Chickens, Spring Night O’ Mime, The Bad Seed, The Dragon, and The Wizard of Elm City (Yale Cabaret).

As a Director: Sarah Kane’s Crave, and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Run, Mourner, Run (co-Director).

Other recent New York credits include: Man:Biology of a Fall, the premier of a new opera by Evan Hause; Mary Stuart at the Pearl Theatre; Mayhem and Spain at the Summer Play Festival;  Hard Lovin’ Ever After for Active Eye Co; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry with Brave New World Rep at the CelebrateBrooklyn Festival. Other Regional Credits include: The Price and set design for The Santaland Diaries at The Long Wharf Theatre; Fiddler on the Roof and BUG at Syracuse Stage, the Hangar theatre, Two River Theatre, and lots of Shakespeare with Milwaukee Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Co. in the Berkshires, and Yale Rep, including:  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, A Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, MacBeth, Henry IV Pt. 2, and King Lear starring Avery Brooks.  Film: Laurie Anderson’s “Hidden Inside Mountains” for World Expo 2005.   Jessica is a recipient of the 2007 NEA/TCG Fellowship for Designers and received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.

He is a notorious flirt and huge believer in neck ties.  He’s in a band called THE BIG GALOOTS and runs a fake headshot business called Photos By Ike.  He is a big fan of Dolly Parton, Weezer, The Rolling Stones, Robert Altman and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.

Carly Mensch’s play ALL HAIL HURRICANE GORDO will be produced this winter as part of the 2008 Humana Festival of New Plays in a co-production with the Cleveland Playhouse, which will produce the play in April. Her most recent play LEN, ASLEEP IN VINYL will receive a workshop production at Juilliard in February with director Jackson Gay. Carly has developed work at The Kennedy Center, the Marin Theatre Company, and Ars Nova, where she is the Playwright-in-Residence for 2008. She is currently a fellow at The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Program.

Shira Milikowsky received her MFA in directing from Columbia University, where she directed Tennessee Williams’ little known avant-garde play The Gnädiges Fräulein, two fairy-tale plays by the Swiss writer Robert Walser, and a contemporary deconstruction of Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard called Still Life. Her MFA thesis project was to create a new play based on the Golem legend, which she wrote collaboratively with the cast and design team. In addition to deconstructing classics and devising works, Shira has collaborated with many writers on new plays. Most recently she directed a workshop production of Better Angels by Katya Schapiro, for the company Polybe + Seats. Last summer she participated in Ars Nova’s The Wikipedia Plays, collaborating with Kyle Jarrow, Mat Smart, Rachel Shukert and Elizabeth Meriwether, with whom she’s developing a new project, Little Tales of Misogyny based on the short stories of Patricia Highsmith. Other current and upcoming projects include Nobody Murders Somebody, about the life and death of Joe Orton, assisting Diane Paulus in her adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel Another Country, and serving as the 2008 Director In Residence at Ars Nova.