2008-2009 Season
Production Artistic Staff

Jeffrey Hatcher, Adaptation - THE SPY
Davis McCallum, Director - HENRY V
John Miller-Stephany, Director - THE SPY

Neil Patel, Set Design - HENRY V, THE SPY
Matt LeFevre, Costume Design - THE SPY
Anita Yavich, Costume Design - HENRY V
Victor Zupanc, Music - HENRY V
Michael Chybowski, Lighting Design - HENRY V, THE SPY
Fitz Patton, Sound Design - THE SPY
Scott Edwards, Sound Design - HENRY V
Felix Ivanov, Fight Direction - THE SPY
John Sipes, Fight Direction - HENRY V
Andrew Wade, Sara Phillips, Voice and Text Consultants - HENRY V

Steve Lorick, Production Manager

Michael Chybowski (Lighting Design - Henry V, The Spy) For The Acting Company: Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest, Jane Eyre, Macbeth, Three Musketeers, Turn of the Screw, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,  Murder By Poe and Richard III. He designs extensively for Mark Morris Dance Group and Royal, ABT, New Zealand and San Francisco Ballets.  Other theater: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Wit, Beckett/Albee and Beard of Avon and a dozen regional theaters. Mr. Chybowski is the 1999 Obie recipient for Sustained Excellence as well as American Theatre Wing and Lucille Lortel Awards.   

Scott Edwards (Sound Design - Henry V)

Jeffrey Hatcher (Adaptation - The Spy) Previously for The Acting Company, The Lottery, The Turn of the Screw, Murder by Poe. Broadway: Never Gonna Dance (book). Off-Broadway: Three Viewings, Scotland Road, The Turn of the Screw, Neddy, Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) and Murder by Poe. Other Plays include Compleat Female Stage Beauty, To Fool the Eye, Pierre, The Servant of Two Masters, The Fabulous Invalid, Everything’s Ducky (with Bill Russell and Henry Krieger) and Work Song (with Eric Simonson). Other Theaters that have produced Mr. Hatcher’s work include Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Old Globe, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Actors Theater of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, City Theater, Children’s Theater Company, South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Missouri Rep, Arizona Theater, Denver Center Intiman Playhouse, The Empty Space, and many others in the U.S. and abroad. His screenplay’s include: Stage Beauty, the film adaptation of Compleat Female Stage Beauty (dir. Richard Eyre) starring Billy Crudup and Claire Danes; Casanova (dir: Lasse Halstrom); Sarah (dir: Steven Shainberg); and Silent Star (dir: Kim Pierce). He has written for the Peter Falk TV series “Columbo” and has won grants and awards from the NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award and others.  A Picasso won Philadelphia’s 2003 Barrymore Award for Best New Play. He is a member of New Dramatists, the Playwrights Center, WGA and the Dramatists Guild.

Felix Ivanov (Fight Direction - The Spy) Fight Director for The Acting Company’s Moby Dick Rehearsed, Macbeth and Three Musketeers.  An MFA in acting from Moscow’s prestigious Vakhtangov School of Drama and his knowledge of martial arts led to a strong, cohesive method of movement training for actors. Felix has acted, directed and choreographed for all mediums, taught at Moscow Art Theatre Drama School, Holland’s Academy of Fine Arts and North Carolina School of the Arts. Currently teaching at The Juilliard School, SUNY-Purchase, The Actors Center and Manhattanville College..

Matt LeFevre (Costume Design - The Spy).

Davis McCallum (Director - Henry V)  For The Acting Company: The Tempest, Jane Eyre, The Turn Of The Screw. Recent credits: Chuck Mee’s Queens Boulevard, Quiara Hudes’ Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue (Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Unbound: The Journals Of Fanny Kemble, West Moon Street and The Belle’s Stratagem . Frequent collaborator of Sarah Ruhl, Noah Haidle and Chuck Mee.; 2003 Killian Directing Fellow (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Drama League Directing Fellow; Soho Rep Writer/Director lab and Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab. Training: LAMDA, Princeton and Oxford (Rhodes Scholar). Upcoming: Romeo & Juliet for Playmakers Rep.

John Miller-Stephany (Director - The Spy) For The Acting Company: Murder By Poe. Mr. Miller-Stephany is Associate Artistic Director of The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis (Joe Dowling, Artistic Director) where he directed productions of Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana, Charles L. Mee’s Wintertime, the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along, the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s comedy To Fool the Eye (based on Jean Anouihl’s Léocadia) and the Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical Sweeney Todd.  Before joining the staff of the Guthrie, Mr. Miller-Stephany was Associate Producer of The Acting Company.  Thanks to his long association with The Acting Company, he has had the opportunity to work with many esteemed directors, including the late John Houseman, the late Alan Schneider, Zelda Fichandler, Michael Kahn, Michael Langham, Mark Lamos, Robert Falls, Gerald Freman, Gerald Gutierrez, Liviu Ciulei and Eve Shapiro.

Neil Patel (Set Design - Henry V, The Spy) For The Acting Company: Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest, Jane Eyre and The Heart is A Lonely Hunter. Broadway: Sideman and ‘night Mother. Extensive Off-Broadway: Dinner With Friends, Arms and the Man, Shine, The Beard Of Avon, Slavs, Mud, River, Stone, Othello, Richard II & III, Macbeth. Regional: Guthrie, Center Stage, Steppenwolf, La Jolla, McCarter and Long Wharf. International: London, Holland, Edinburgh and Paris. New York City, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Tokyo and Minnesota Operas. Numerous Drama Desk nominations; 2000 EDDY Award, 1996 and 2001 OBIE for sustained excellence.

Fitz Patton (Sound Design - The Spy) For The Acting Company: Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest, Jane Eyre, Macbeth and Turn of the Screw. Broadway: As Long as We Both Shall Laugh. Off-Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding, Fighting Words and Modern Orthodox, Lincoln Center, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Atlantic, Julliard, The Flea, and NY Stage and Film.  Regional: Dallas, Philadelphia, Calshakes, Yale Rep, Ensemble Theater, Long Wharf, Pasadena Playhouse and Pittsburgh Public. Scores for: Amy Irving, Warren Leight and James Lapine. Graduate design degree Yale School of Drama; composition degrees Bard and Vassar Colleges.