Hansel and Gretel

Liana Stillman received an MFA from The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently a second-year at the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Brandon Magid is an NYC-based music director, pianist, and vocal coach.  Credits include Broadway: Godspell (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: Where's Charley? (City Center Encores!), Stro! A Gala Celebration (Vineyard), and Tomorrow Morning (York). Regional: Band Geeks!, Radio Girls, James and The Giant Peach, Annie Get Your Gun, and How to Succeed (Goodspeed).

He has served as an accompanist/coach for various schools and training institutions here in NYC including Carnegie Hall, New York University/CAP 21, Broadway Dance Center, Broadway for All, DreamYard Preparatory School, and LaGuardia Community College. Proud Honors grad of Loyola University Chicago. 

Costume Designer

A.R.T. Institute: Tough Titty, I Speak Therefor I Am, Trojan Women, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Drums in the Nights, History of the American Film, The Skin of our Teeth, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Seriously Funny. Regional credits: Broke-ology, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Shipwrecked!, Speech and Debate, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Lyric Stage Company; The Hound of the Baskervilles, Central Square Theater; Measure for Measure, UMass Lowell. She currently serves as the wardrobe supervisor for Emerson Stage and is a graduate of Emerson College where she earned her B.F.A in Design Technology.

A.R.T.: The Light Princess (A.R.T. and New Victory Theater), The Snow Queen, Hansel and Gretel. Recent work: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Production Manager); Santa Fe Opera Company (Titles Administrator); Brown University/ Trinity Rep (Sound Design Artist in Residence); OBERON (Head of Sound). Aaron is currently the Associate Director of Production at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, a new venue and organization on Bleecker Street in NoHo.

A.R.T.: Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps (Japhy), As You Like It (Duke Senior), The Snow Queen (Grandfather), The Donkey Show (DJ). A.R.T. Institute: Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories). Theater: Montana Repertory, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Colorado Shakespeare. Michael received a B.F.A. at the University of Montana and is a graduate of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Leslie Gehring, dramaturg, is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from the University of Denver in 2011, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Theatre and English. She also spent a summer studying Shakespeare and British literature at the University of Westminster in London and has worked with the Denver Center Theatre Company. She enjoys hiking, bouldering, running, and skiing.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: HEAR WORD!; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/Training: Graduate of Boston University (Summa cum laude) College of Fine Arts.