McKay Coble (Resident Designer, PlayMakers Repertory Company) has designed costumes and scenery for numerous PlayMakers productions as well as for productions at the Alley Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival and Hartford Stage. She served as production coordinator for Barbara Matera, Ltd. for the Broadway productions of La Cage Aux Folles, Dream Girls, Big River, Sunday in the Park with George, Singin’ in the Rain, Zorba, Merlin, and Private Lives and for the films The Cotton Club, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ghostbusters, Silkwood, Maxie, The Jagged Edge and Places in the Heart. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Michael Rolleri (Technical Director, PlayMakers Repertory Company) has been Technical Director and Lighting Designer for industrial shows in the Southeast region. He has been a lead carpenter for such feature films as The Program and Bedroom Window, for the U.S. Olympic Festival and for Adirondack Scenic Studios. He has also been a rigger for Secoa and Stage Systems and has served on the Executive Board and as President of IATSE Local 417. Mr. Rolleri received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a specialist in machining and rigging.

J. Robert McLeod (Production Manager, PlayMakers Repertory Company) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Technical Production. Before joining the faculty in 2006 he was the Technical Director for the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington D.C. for three years, where he traveled from the Shakespeare Theatre Company to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Complete Works Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Theatre of Herod Atticus in Athens, Greece for the Athens Festival and others. Prior to working for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Mr. McLeod was the Technical Director at the Dallas Theater Center for four years. He received his MFA in Technical Production from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jan Chambers (Resident Designer, PlayMakers Repertory Company) designed Trojan Women and Angels in America: The Millennium Approaches, for the Department of Theater Studies at Duke University, both awarded Best of 2005 for Theatre Production by the Raleigh News and Observer. She has also designed for Theater Or at the Victory Garden Theater in Chicago, Manbites Dog Theatre of Durham, NC, Profile Theater Project of Portland OR, Charlotte Repertory Theater, Carolina Ballet, and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. She is the resident set and costume designer for Archipelago Theatre for whom she created award winning environments for numerous new works, including And Mary Wept and Eulogy for a Warrior. Jan is also a painter and sculptor.

Eric Ketchum (Undergraduate Technical Director) currently coordinates the technical aspects of the Department of Dramatic Art's undergraduate productions.  He has served as Technical Director, Resident Designer and Instructor at the Marion County Center for the Arts in Ocala, Florida.  His professional designs include scenery and lighting for the Marion County Center for the Arts' productions of Into the Woods and The Crucible, lighting for the Acrosstown Repertory Company's production of Julius Caesar and lighting for the Hippodrome State Theatre's production of The Big Bang.  Mr. Ketchum received his MFA in Lighting Design and Technical Production at the University of Florida.

Herb Garman (Associate Director for the Center for Dramatic Art) currently oversees the operations for the Center for Dramatic Art, home of PlayMakers Repertory Company, on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. He has served the Assistant Production Manager and the Director of Education and Outreach with PlayMakers Repertory Company, Operations Assistant with the Yale School of Drama and as the Safety Coordinator for the Glimmerglass Opera Company. He has also worked with IATSE Local 927 and Local 26 at such venues as the Detroit Auto Show and 1996 Summer Olympic Games in AtlantaGeorgia Mr. Garman is a MFA Technical Production graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.