Ken Bowen
Ken Bowen (Lighting Designer) has served as Teacher, Designer, and Technical Director at Latin School of Chicago for the past 17 years. He designed and built 75 major productions in that time, managed all other lectures and events in the school theatre, and taught Stagecraft and Computer Drafting. For the previous 15 years he was a free-lance designer, stage manager, and touring road manager, primarily for Dance. He worked with Hedwig, Mordine & Company, Joel Hall, and a host of other dance organizations which have since slipped into memory, designing over 500 new works. He was honored three times by the Chicago Dance Coalition with Ruth Page Awards, and later served on their board of directors. He is sincerely honored and delighted to be designing dance in Chicago again.
Works: ASCENDance (2013); Falling Into The Sky (1996); Schubert Dances (1996); Viva! (1995); Delegging Doral (1995); Clearing, Made of Dream (1994); Five Line Sheave (1994); Sweet Baby, Baby Suite (1993); Waltz #3 (1993); Open Windows (1987)
Todd Clark
Todd Clark is a professional Production Stage Manager and Lighting Designer in Chicago. He collaborated with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago from 1987-2001 and is currently the Director of Production for the Chicago Dancing Festival.
Works: Of Love and Shadows (1989)
Gwen Godwin
Margaret Nelson
Margaret Nelson (Lighting Designer) has received two Ruth Page Dance Achievement Awards for Lighting Design and Major Contributions to the Dance Community and a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Lighting Design at the Organic Theatre. Margaret’s design projects and Production Management have taken her to every state of the US and six continents. She has taught Lighting Master Classes from Duluth, MN to Montevideo, Uruguay and was Artist in Residence at the Cairo Opera House. Among many current projects, Margaret is Production Stage Manager and Lighting Designer for Goat Island Performance Project’s tours, and Lighting Designer in Residence at the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago.
Works: The I Depend of Tango (1988), Opus 38 (1999), Short Stories (2006), Rein, Below (2007), Night Blooming Jasmine (2007), Earthly Tongues (2008), Dust (2009), Walking (2010), Sawdust Palace Suite (2010), Dance of Forgotten Steps (2010)
Philip Sandstrom
Philip Sandstrom is a producer and designer with 30 years of experience in the Performing and Visual Arts with an in-depth background in curating, producing, management, design, and operation of arts organizations. He currently works for Solutions-Performing Arts, *Designing with Light*, and the Dance Critics Association.
Works: Dust (2009)
Jacob Snodgrass
Jacob Snodgrass is currently the Teachnical Director of Links Hall in Chicago.
Works: Moi Aussi (2009), Stampede (2009), Line of Sighs (2012), Trade Winds/Aires de Cambio (2014)