Frank Maugeri (Co-creator/Co-director/Designer) is a public artist, spectacle maker and designer. Whether transforming large public spaces into places of unexpected celebration or creating intricate miniature toy theater productions, Mr. Maugeri creates work in partnership with hundreds of professional and emerging artists, community members and student interns. For fifteen years, Redmoon has been his artistic home, where he currently serves as coartistic director with Jim Lasko. There, he has collaboratively conceived, directed and designed dozens of outdoor spectacles and public events including: The Astronaut's Birthday, a large-scale animated graphic novel projected on the MCA's façade; seven of the famed All Hallow's Eve ritual celebrations in Logan Square; the ground-breaking ceremonies of Millennium Park and The Modern Wing of the Art Institute; and a public Halloween Spectacle at The White House in 2009. His indoor work most notably includes Redmoon's longest-running production, The Cabinet, and its tour to Brazil. Mr. Maugeri is currently designing the 21st floor of the new Lurie Children's Memorial Hospital and generating a massive work of public art—an enormous Zoetrope. He received the prestigious NEA/TCG Career Development Award for Directors, through which he worked extensively with Dogtroepe and Groupe ZUR in Europe. Mr. Maugeri teaches in the Theater Department of Columbia College.

Jessica Thebus (Co-creator/Co-director/Adaptor) Directing credits as artistic associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company include: Sex with Strangers, Intimate Apparel, Dead Man's Cell Phone, No Place Like Home, When the Messenger Is Hot (59E59, NYC) and Sonia Flew. Additional Chicago credits include the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss, Clean House (Goodman Theatre); Orlando (Court Theatre); Our Town (co-director Anna D. Shapiro), They All Fall Down (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Jekyll and Hyde, Inherit the Wind, Red Herring (Northlight Theatre); Eurydice (Victory Gardens Theater); The Turn of the Screw (Writers' Theatre); Salao: the Worst Kind of Unlucky (Redmoon). Regional credits include: Harriet Jacobs (Kansas City Repertory); A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre Company); and the world premiere of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Kennedy Center). Favorite projects: Pulp (Jeff Award nomination—Best Director, After Dark Award—Best Production), Winesburg, Ohio (Jeff Award nomination—Best Director, After Dark Award—Best Director), Seven Moves (About Face Theatre); Late, Melancholy Play and Abingdon Square (Piven Theatre). Ms. Thebus is a faculty member in the MFA Directing Program at Northwestern University and an artistic associate at The Corn Exchange in Dublin, Ireland. She would like to dedicate this production to her Dad.

Neil Verplank (Scenic Engineer/Builder) Redmoon credits include The Cabinet and the boat for Unbinding Isaac. Other theater credits include co-producer and director for The Light at the Peak of the Bric-a-Brac Hills and board member for the Immediate Theatre Company. Mr. Verplank is a Chicagobased woodworker, furniture designer and luthier. He can occasionally be seen sailing down the Chicago River on his water-faring, fire-breathing dragon.

Andrea Everman (Art Director, 2D and silhouette puppet design) Redmoon puppetry design credits include Swan Lake with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Winter Pageant 2010. Other Chicago credits include: The Ugly Duckling, The Red Kite Project (Chicago Children's Theatre); Houdini's Box and The Selfish Giant (Blair Thomas & Company). Ms. Everman also designs toys and housewares for her Chicago-based company and is currently creating a series of dioramas for the Chicago Children's Hospital.

Jesse Mooney-Bullock (3D Puppet Designer) Redmoon production credits include hand-carved wooden puppets for Boneyard Prayer and Salao: the Worst Kind of Unlucky (Jeff Award). Other Chicago credits include St. James Infirmary and The Selfish Giant (Blair Thomas & Company). Regional credits include puppets for Carnival! (Papermill Playhouse). Mr. Mooney-Bullock received an Artist's Grant from the City of Cincinnati to create an original puppet adaptation of Rikki Tikki Tavi, which he performed in Cincinnati in 2010. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sue Haas (Co-costume Designer) Chicago credits include productions with: Redmoon, Lookingglass Theatre Company and The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. International credits include The Living Statues Festival in the Netherlands. Dance credits include productions with Lucky Plush Productions, Hedwig Dances and The Seldoms. Ms. Haas' work with fabric also includes an installation for Art Basel in 2005 at the Holly Hunt show-room in Miami.

Anna Glowacki (Co-costume Designer) Redmoon costume design credits include: Twilight Orchard, Last of My Species II and wig design for Princess Club. Other theater credits include: Alien Queen (The Scooty and Jojo Show), Bat Boy (Village Players) and The Wreck of the Medusa (The Plagiarists). Circus credits include Taste of Chicago 2011 (The Midnight Circus) and Neverwhere (The Actors Gymnasium Gymnasium). Dance credits include Little Dead Riding Hood and Changes: A Science Fiction Tap Dance Opera set to the music of David Bowie (Chicago Tap Theatre). Film credits include Frankenstein: Day of the Beast (Alpha Studios/Thespis Productions.) Ms. Glowacki received her BFA in fashion design from the International Academy of Design and Technology.

Jeffrey Allen Thomas (Sound Designer/Composer) Production credits include work with: Redmoon, Maestro-Matic, Opera-Matic and the International Contemporary Ensemble. As an arranger his credits include work with a diverse group of artists from Greek composer Michael Karras to punk legend Excene Cervenka. Mr. Thomas plays the guitar and is a student-conductor for Chicago's premier Circus-Punk Marching Band, Mucca Pazza. He has also created work as a composer/arranger/musician for film, theater and concert halls.

Mike Tutaj (Projection Designer) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include Macbeth and Romeo y Julieta. Other Chicago design credits include: The Detective's Wife (Writers' Theatre); Ask Aunt Susan, The Good Negro (Goodman Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Drury Lane Theatre); The Hot L Baltimore (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Year of Magical Thinking (Court Theatre); A Walk in the Woods, The Pitmen Painters, In Darfur (Jeff Award), Frost/Nixon, The Farnsworth Invention, Martin Furey's Shot (non-Equity Jeff Award), History Boys (TimeLine Theatre Company); Tomorrow Morning (Jeff Award, Hillary A. Williams LLC); Love Person, I Sailed with Magellan (Victory Gardens Theater); Distracted, Kid Simple, I Do! I Do!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (American Theater Company); Scorched, Pangs of the Messiah and Our Enemies (Silk Road Rising). Mr. Tutaj is an artistic associate with Time-Line Theatre Company and a company member of Barrel of Monkeys Productions.

Andrew H. Meyers (Lighting Designer) Redmoon credits include Rachel's Love and Galway's Shadow. Other Chicago credits include The Kid from Brooklyn, Pope Joan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Royal George Theatre) and productions with Apple Tree Theatre, Light Opera Works, Northwestern Opera Theater, Pegasus Players, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Victory Gardens Theater, among others. Regional credits include productions with: Next Act Theatre, Ballet Memphis, Virginia Musical Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Mr. Meyers creates lighting for corporate events, fashion shows and trade shows all over North America, and designed tours for the Richard Thompson Band.