Carrie Baker (ccbaker@alaska.edu) Assistant Professor of Theatre, is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild and a founding company member of New York City’s Coyote REP. New York Theatre: New Age Classics, New Perspectives Theatre Company, NYU Festival of New Works, Manhattan Theatre Source, Coyote REP. Regional Theatre: Utah Shakespearean Festival, Irvine Barclay Theatre, Summer Repertory Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, Potomac Theatre Project, Washington Stage Guild, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre. TV: Guiding Light, Ed. Film: Chronic Town, Eat Me. Directing: The Laramie Project, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Three Days of Rain (Theatre UAF), The Taming of the Shrew (FST). Carrie holds a B.A. in Theatre and English from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of California, Irvine.

Stephan Golux - (sgolux@alaska.edu) Director, has been a freelance professional director for the past fifteen years, working happily in the established canon and very much enjoying any opportunity for the collaboration with dynamic playwrights on premieres of new plays. World Premieres in New York City include LOOKING FOR THE PONY by Andrea Lepcio, AMERICAN PASSENGER by Theron Albis, 9TH STREET WATER by Michael Griffo, and CRAWLING FROM THE WRECKAGE by Paul Rogalus. Regionally and in New York, his favorite projects have included ENDGAME, ON THE VERGE, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, LINE, TRUE WEST, JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS, THE POPE AND THE WITCH, and COPENHAGEN. He and his wife Kara have created a Performance Research laboratory in New York and in Vermont, bringing to a theatrical context an approach of "Bricolage" (from Claude Levi-Strauss) in the creation of performance material. A proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, he holds a B.S. in Philosophy of Language from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.F.A. in Stage Direction from the Yale School of Drama. Further portfolio information can be found at http://director.goluxstudio.com/.

Heather Kasvinsky, (heather@alaska.edu) Department Coordinator / Box Office Manager / Public Relations. New to the Theatre Department in 2007, she also holds an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University and teaches part-time in the Art Department at UAF. Her work is exhibited both nationally and internationally. www.blackeggpress.com

Bethany Marx - (bmarx2@alaska.edu) Costume Designer, comes most recently from Indianapolis, IN where she worked in the costume shop at the Indiana Repertory Theatre while designing costumes for Indy's Phoenix Theatre. She has an MFA in Costume Design and multiple design credits from the University of Massachusetts and a BFA in Costume Design and Technology from the University of Evansville in Evansville, IN. She has also designed at The Hope Summer Repertory Theater, the Chester Theater Company, and others. Favorite productions include Gum, The Last Five Years and The Reincarnation of Jaime Brown. Bethany has worked in costume shops across the country and enjoys costume construction and crafts as well as design. Portfolio at bethmarxcostumedesigns.com.

Kade Mendelowitz kade.TheatricalDesign.com/, (Kade@alaska.edu) - Lighting Designer , Technical Director, Professor, Theatre UAF. Originally from New York, Kade has served as lighting supervisor for The Acting Company's national tour of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and has taught at Smith College in Massachusetts. An award-winning lighting designer, Kade has designed numerous productions for the stage, television news, dance, and the United States Olympic Ice Sculptures trials. He teaches courses in Lighting and Technical Theatre. Hobbies include photography and multimedia presentations - he is the owner of Multimakers Multimedia design company. Kade has completed the second version of his multimedia CD / textbook replacement: Theatrical Lighting Design Interactive which is on sale internationally and on Amazon.com, as well as version 1 of Theatrical Sound Design Interactive; a DVD. In 2009 Kade received an Outstanding Advisor Award at UAF. He was honored to receive a 2004 Aurora Award: Platinum Best of Show 2004: Entertainment for his interactive sci-fi DVD adventure Water Stealers. In 2004 he won the distinguished Usibelli Award for Service - UAF's highest honor.

Maya Salganek (Maya@alaska.edu) Assistant Professor, Digital Performance Media. Maya has been involved with the UAF theatre department since 2001. Having recently completed her MA in Anthropology with a thesis film project, she is currently teaching "Let's Make a Movie" and completing video projects for a number of UAF departments and State agencies. She was recently co-producer for the independent feature film, Chronic Town, to be released by Grey Jumper Productions in 2008.