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Colorado Shakespeare Festival
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Mr. Devin is in his twenty-fifth season as CSF's lighting designer and his fifteenth year as Producing Artistic Director. He moved to Boulder in 1990 from Seattle, where he served for 15 years as professor of arts management and design for the University of Washington and for six years as associate director and acting director of the UW School of Drama. He was managing director and lighting designer for Massachusetts' Williamstown Theatre Festival for seven years and more than 60 productions. He is past president of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (North America's association of design and production professionals in the performing arts) and served for 10 years on the Board of the Boulder County Arts Alliance. He has also designed lighting for more than 40 productions during the last 25 seasons of CSF and has served as lighting designer for over 200 productions at 34 of America's regional theatres and in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Off-Broadway, and recently designed a production of The Comedy of Errors in Cairo. He has served as consultant on stage equipment and architectural design on a dozen new or renovated theatre buildings. Richard received his M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and his B.A. in drama from the University of Northern Iowa.
In addition to his duties as General Manager and Casting Director, Lynn directed the the 2001 production of As You Like It and the 1996 production of Othello for CSF. He is a senior instructor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at CU, Boulder, where he has directed The Learned Ladies, Frankenstein, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Cripple of Innishman, A Midsummer Night's Dream (all female cast), The Curse of the Starving Class, Shakespeare's Women, The Illusion, Tartuffe, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and A Flea in Her Ear. He also directed for Actors Ensemble theatre company of Boulder, where his credits include Cloud 9, On the Verge, The Nerd, Return to the Forbidden Planet and, for the Boulder Chautauqua's 100th Anniversary, the musical Quilters. His Ph.D. dissertation is titled "The Evolution of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival." This is Lynn's nineteenth year with the Festival.
Ray, a native New Yorker, has been active in Colorado regional theatre since 1970, as a theatre administrator and as an actor. He served as Administrative Director of the Compass Theatre Company and performed in various theatres, to include Germinal Stage Denver, RiverTree Theatre, Aurora Fox Theatre, Arvada Center for the Arts and Theatre-Under-Glass. Ray became the CSF Business Manager in 1995 and has appeared on the Festival stage in the CSF '97 season as Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida and as Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet, in the CSF '98 season as the Duke of York in Richard II, in the '00 season in the title role in Julius Caesar, and most recently, as Adam in the '01 CSF production of As You Like It. As a playwright, Ray is the author of Libbie, a one-actor dramatization of the life of Elizabeth Bacon Custer; also, Frankenstein (an adaptation; directed at the University of Colorado at Boulder in '05 by CSF General Manager Lynn Nichols), and All That I Have Lost, a dramatic compilation of war poetry (to be presented in the CU '06 season, directed by CSF's Lynn Nichols).
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