Auditorium Theatre 2021-2022, Issue 2, Trinity

AUDITORIUM THEATRE :: TIDC | 7 Profiles blending the local and the post-modern in an organic, bodily response to her world. She is a dynamic and consummate performer: her very presence can hush a crowd with the faintest whisper of a shoe against the floor or set the stage alight with blazing body rhythms. PRODUCTION CREW Garvin Jellison (Production Manager) is a designer who has worked with Seanachai Theater, Chicago Flamenco, Pride Films and Plays, Ballet Legere, The Artistic Home, The Joffrey Ballet, Redtwist Theatre and others. Jellison has also worked with Links Hall, Lookingglass Theater Company, and Chicago Shakespeare. Jellison was the Production Stage Manager for Hubbard Street 2 in 2013, and was General Manager for Haven Theatre Company until 2015. Garvin holds a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University. Jojo A. Franjoine (Stage Manager/Lighting Director) is a lighting artist interested in creating environments that have potential to trigger visceral responses within the subconscious. Jojo often works at the intersection of gender, identity, and dysphoria. Jojo is invested in working with collaborators who aspire to create visual utopian metamorphoses. A design associate of Al Crawford (Lighting Director for Alvin Ailey), Jojo works with Arc3Design, a cross-genre design group dedicated to merging theatrical aesthetic into all areas of art, architecture, dance, live music, theater, broadcast, and live event production. View more of Jojo’s work: josephfranjoine.com Anthony Forchielli is a lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, and events. Anthony is interested in theatre as an opportunity; a forefront of ethical reform. Anthony’s work has been seen across the country including Windy City Playhouse, Milagro Theatre, The Wagon Wheel Theatre, Wilmette Starlight Theatre, Allentown Shakespeare in the Park, and The Bienen School of Music. Anthony also assists at some of the nation’s largest theatrical institutions including San Francisco Opera, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Goodman Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre. Anthony holds a BFA and MFA from DePaul’s Theatre School Conservatory and Northwestern University respectively, and is a Gilbert Hemsley Lighting Internship recipient. Anthony’s work has been featured in the pages of PLSN and Lighting and Sound America. Please visit his portfolio at designedAF.com Erik West (Audio Engineer) is an Emmy-award-winning Audio Engineer with more than 30 years of experience. Primarily working in broadcast sports television, Erik has returned to his roots and rejoined the Trinity Irish Dance Company to help train the next generation of audio engineers. Michael Altergott (Assistant Audio Engineer) is a Chicago-based freelance musician, producer, and educator. Michael is proficient on saxophone, piano, guitar, and bass guitar. He graduated college with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, and currently performs in Chicago-based bands Uma Bloo, Space Gators, and Doc while working as a freelance sound engineer and record producer. Michael is looking forward to combining his backgrounds in audio production, live performance, and the physics of sound wave propagation to ensure that the awe-inspiring experience of live performance is transmitted to audiences via the soundboard. Al Crawford (Lighting Designer) was the Lighting Director of the world renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1998–2021. Now in his 20th season with the famed dance company, he has produced the lighting for Ailey in virtually every major theater, performing arts center and opera house on the planet having toured to 48 states and over 60 countries including historically significant performances in Russia, China and South Africa. A huge believer in cross-genre design, Al founded Arc3design, a lighting design group dedicated to merging his theatrical aesthetic into all areas of art, architecture, dance, live music, theater, broadcast, and live event production. Kaitlyn Sardin and Abigail Graham-Luke, photo by Todd Rosenberg.