Graduate Studies: Technical Production: Faculty
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 (Production Manager & Interim 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.
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 lighting for PRC2's Witness to an Execution and In The Continuum and EbZb and Mike Wiley Productions' Life Is So Good; scenery and lighting for the Marion County Center for the Arts' productions of Into the Woods and The Crucible. Mr. Ketchum received his MFA in Lighting Design and Technical Production at the University of Florida. For more information, please see his website: www.erkdesign.com.
Todd Lawerence (Associate Director for the Center for Dramatic Art) holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he taught and served as the Technical Director and Production Manager for undergraduate spaces and has a BA from Catawba College in Salisbury, NC. Todd has worked for theatres around the country: The Hangar Theatre, Playmaker's Repertory, Stages St Louis, and Flat Rock Playhouse. Todd also brings experience from working in smaller community theatres, and working with high school students while teaching at The Bullis School and The Collegiate School. Todd lives in Bynum with his wife Rachel and their dogs Beth, Chloe, Shea, and Lexi and the two cats Benny and Bonnie. When he is not in the CDA Todd can be found following a NASCAR race or watching Panthers or Tar Heels in some sort of sporting event.
