Justin is a freelance Scenic Designer and theatrical technician based in St. Louis. His designs include musical theatre, drama, and opera productions. Justin began his professional career in St. Louis and quickly became an in-demand artist, designing with several local professional theatres including (Mostly) Harmless Theatre, New Line Theatre, HotCity Theatre, and Historyonics Theatre Company. He proudly served as Resident Lighting Designer with Historyonics for three years. As a founding member of the International Theatre Collective, he has worked with fellow ensemble members to produce the original work "Saltwater;" he then toured with the company to Montana, St. Louis, Seattle and British Colombia.
Justin spent a busy year in Chicago working for a number of companies including Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre and The House Theatre of Chicago. During the summer of 2006, he worked with Union Avenue Opera, acting as Scenic Designer and Technical Director for three productions.
Justin completed his MFA in Scenic Design from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2010. His designs for CCM have been recognized with multiple Cincinnati Acclaim Awards, a Peggy Ezekiel Award for Outstanding Achievement (USITT/Ohio Valley), and a Cincinnati Entertainment Award nomination.

Justin designed Anatol for the PAD in the fall of 2011.  Photos here:  http://pages.wustl.edu/paddesign/anatol

Diana specializes in cartooning, figural illustration, brand-standard development, collateral creation, and costume design with an emphasis on modernized period-styles. In November, 2010, she was awarded the 2010 Fashion Group International Scholarship.  Diana designed costumes for the Nov, 2010 production of Curse of the Starving Class and designed costumes for the PAD production of As You Like It.

Paul Dillinger received his BFA in Fashion Design from Washington University in St. Louis. He attended the Domus Academy in Milan as a Fulbright Scholar where he received his MFA. He has worked as a fashion designer for 16 years at a variety of fashion houses in New York, including Calvin Klein and DKNY. This past December, Paul relocated to San Francisco to join the team at DOCKERS as Senior Director - Global Design. In this capacity he has been able to partner with the Social and Environmental Sustainability group at Levi Strauss & Co, working to further develop front-end methods for applied sustainability in the design process. In addition to his work as a designer, Paul is faculty and a Beaumont Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Paul has been featured in the following articles:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2011/11/11/levi-ships-millions-of-sustainable.html?page=all
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/22/LVGB1L5MLI.DTL&ao=all

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Catherine studied at Washington University in St. Louis, earning her bachelor's degree in Theater Tech with an emphasis in Costume Design. While still enrolled, she worked on several films that were being shot in the St. Louis Area assisting designers in sourcing and purchasing their needed costumes. Upon graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film world, finding the thrill of the camera to perfectly suit her design tastes.

Starting her life in Hollywood, she began with short films, most notably The Maiden and the Princess, which has received numerous awards for its message and design, and Quiet. As an alum of Washington University since 2009, she has been working around the clock on short films, feature films, webseries, commercials, music videos, personal design commissions, and some light theater work. In her feature film work as a costume designer, she has had the pleasure of working with Michael Biehn, Michael Spears, & Eddie Spears in Yellow Rock, Dean Cain, Erika Eleliak & Kristen Renton in Meant to Be, and Bill Oberst Jr. in both The Princess and the Pony and Children of Sorrow. She lives the glamourous life of a freelance designer, moving from project to project finding the joys and inspiration in each one. The web world is where some of the most interesting movements in television viewership is shifting, and her work in the web world has been some of her most exciting; Once Upon for MysteryGuitarMan on Youtube had over a million and a half views, Jeff and Ravi Fail History has been viewed by nearly a million people, and MyMusic has over 500,000 subscribers.

She lives in West Los Angeles with her fiance and her beloved adopted dog, Sakura.

My first job was on the oldest ship in the fleet, the Century as an "AV Light Operator."  The intelligent lighting rig consisted of 24 Cyberlights and 30 Colorram scrollers.  Half of the ship's lights did not work when I got on board and the Cyberlights had been neglected, with rampant overheating and ballast power issues.  In addition, a Catalyst Media Server was not talking to two DL 1's so I helped restore that system.  The Production Company saw my work and allowed me to restore their shows which had been on the ship for four years and had been badly overwritten in some sections.

This work was recognized by the office who sent me to one of the newer ships, the Equinox.  The chief challenge there was that the cast kept getting injured and on ships, we do not have understudies.  So my chief duty was to subtly alter the lighting for the production shows so the lighting made sense.  In addition, a repaired DL1 arrived from the office and I restored the projections.  In addition, during my time there, the toplight system of scrollers was replaced with LED Pars.  Two months into my contract, I filled in as a temporary scheduler when the AV Manager went home.  My contract was cut short and I was promoted.

In July of this year, I started my first contract as an "AV Manager."  This position is roughly equivalent to "Technical Director of Entertainment."  My job responsibilities include managing the AV Team, repairing and maintaining equipment, keeping inventories of disposables stocked, and monthly inspections.  In addition, I am the ship's human flying operator, and I inspect and operate the flying hoist while working with a pair of acrobats, of whom I am very fond.

I have worked with the following production companies: Mike Moloney Entertainment, Poet Productions, and Qdos Entertainment aboard the Celebrity Century, the Celebrity Equinox, and the Celebrity Summit, respectively.  Entertainers include: Noel Paul Stookey, Michele Balan, Craig Dahn, Gary Arbuthnot, Bande Artistique, and many others.

I have traveled to Istanbul, Sydney (in Australia and Nova Scotia, Canada), five islands in Hawaii, Hubbard Glacier in Alaska, San Francisco, St. Martin/St. Maarten, Bermuda, Cartagena and Barcelona Spain, Rome, Athens, and several other wonderful places.  My favorite place, so far, is Portland, Maine.

Artem is a lighting designer, actor, and statistician.  He began lighting design as an experiment because he knew absolutely nothing about it.  For the Performing Arts Department, he has done lights for Radio Free Emerson, Anatol, Wash U Dance Theatre in 2010 and 2011, Dance Close-Up 2010, Young Choreographers' Showcase 2010, and the Senior Honors Thesis Reclaiming the Courtesan.  He is also involved in student theatre with Thyrsus.  Professionally, he designed CARAVAN for The Slaughter Project, and then remounted one of the pieces at the 4th Annual Emerson Spring to Dance Festival.

Photos of Artem's work:
Anatol:  http://pages.wustl.edu/paddesign/anatol
Radio Free Emerson: http://pages.wustl.edu/paddesign/radio-free-emerson
WUDT 2011: http://pages.wustl.edu/paddesign/kinetic-field-work-wudt-2011
WUDT 2010: http://pages.wustl.edu/paddesign/living-momentum-wudt-2010
CARAVAN: http://pages.wustl.edu/paddesign/caravan-slaughter-project

Sibyl Wickersheimer is a set designer, artist, and Assistant Professor in the USC School of Theatre. Her set designs for the Actors' Gang productions of 1984 and The Trial of the Catonsville 9 have traveled across the U.S. and to Hong Kong, Australia, Greece, Spain, and Mexico.
Regionally, Sibyl's set design credits have included productions at South Coast Repertory, The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, The Berkeley Repertory, and at sea on the Disney Cruise Ship, 'The Wonder'. At the Geffen Playhouse, she designed the sets for Some Girl(s) and Wrecks, both written and directed by Neil Labute.
Bridging the gap between installation and performance, Sibyl recently designed a modular stage for the Dinosaur and Sabertooth Cat 'Encounters' performances at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. These incredible large scale puppet performances directed by Jennifer Bloom play to hundreds of visitors weekly.
Sibyl has exhibited photography and installation art in Gallery 825, Bergamont Station, Andrew Shire Gallery, and the Pacific Asia Museum among other galleries in Southern CA. Currently Sibyl is co-creating a mixed media, 4-part installation series entitled Big Haul with Janne Larsen.