Susan A. White (Lighting Designer) has previously designed Grey Gardens, Intimate Apparel, Humble Boy, Happy Holi-divas!, Into the Woods, Take Me Out, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues and Dinner with Friends for WaterTower Theatre. Susan has designed for the Off-Broadway productions of Nunsense, Blues in the Night and The Immigrant. Regionally, she designed Little Me and Hot Mikado for Ford's Theatre; Spunk and Romeo & Juliet for Cleveland Playhouse; Play On!, Harlem Nocturne, and Tamer of Horses for Crossroads Theatre. Susan has also been the Assistant/Associate Designer on over two dozen Broadway productions. Local credits include Lyric Stage (28 shows), Garland Summer Musicals (7 shows), Texas Ballet Theatre, and S.M.U. Dance and Opera Productions. Susan has received two Leon Rabin Awards (for Lyric Stage's Titanic and Ragtime) and six additional nominations. Susan is adjunct faculty at S.M.U. and has been a guest lecturer for Kent State University, Harvard, UCSD, NYU, and USITT. Susan received her B.S. in Education from North Texas State University, an M.A. from Arizona State University, and is in the Doctoral program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Curtis Craig (Sound Designer) is an Assistant Professor of Sound Design at Penn State University. Curtis has worked extensively around the nation, including Seaside Music Theater, Dallas Theater Center and Shakespeare Dallas among others. He has worked on the recordings "Walt Whitman and Musical Modernism" (Garland Press) and "Mythologies" (Harold Blumenfeld). A member of AES, USITT and NARAS, Curtis received the 1998 Leon Rabin Award for his sound design of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. He received subsequent nominations in 2002 for WaterTower Theatre's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and 2006 for WaterTower's Take Me Out. Curtis received his BS from Clarion University.
Georgana Jinks (Props Designer) has her Masters in theatre from Texas Woman's University and her BA in theatre from Texas State. Before coming to Dallas she worked at the AD Players in Houston as Stage Manager, technician and actor. Since moving to the DFW area Georgana has done work as prop designer at the Music Theatre of Denton and for Word of Mouth Production in Frisco.
Heidi Shen (Stage Manager) became WaterTower Theatre's Resident Stage Manager in 2005. She has stage managed over thirty WaterTower productions, beginning with Noises Off. During the 2001-2002 season, Heidi served as WaterTower's Texas Commission on the Arts Apprentice. An Artistic Company Member at Kitchen Dog Theater and a member of Actors' Equity Association, Heidi received her BFA in Theatre from Southern Methodist University.
Our Town
Written by Thornton Wilder
Director, Terry Martin
Assistant Director, Amy Corcoran
Set Designer, Clare Floyd DeVries
Costume Designer Michael A. Robinson
Lighting Designer, Susan A. White
Props Designer, Georgana Jinks
Sound Designer, Curtis Craig
Stage Manager, Heidi Shen
Performance Schedule:
September 24-October 24, 2010
Previews: September 24 & 25 @ 8:00 PM; Sept. 26 @ 7:30 PM
Opening night: Monday, September 27 @ 7:30 PM
Performances: September, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, October 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
Atmos Energy Student Matinee Performances: October 5, 7, 12 & 14.
Performance Times:
7:30 PM Wednesday & Thursday
8:00 PM Friday & Saturday
2:00 PM Sunday
2:00 PM Saturday on October 23
Student Matinees: 10:00 AM
How/Where to buy tickets: www.watertowertheatre.org or 972-450-6232 or in-person at
WaterTower Theatre Box Office (Tuesday - Friday, 12 pm to 6 pm)
Addison Theatre Centre
15650 Addison Road
Addison, Texas 75001
About WaterTower Theatre
WaterTower Theatre is one of the leading regional theatres in North Dallas and Texas. It is consistently recognized for its artistic excellence by the Dallas Theatre League, Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Observer, D Magazine and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, among others. WaterTower Theatre has a subscription base of more than 2,100 subscribers and serves an audience of over 35,000 patrons annually.
WaterTower Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of The Town of Addison, TACA, Texas Commission on the Arts, The 500, Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts. WaterTower Theatre is supported, in part, through the generosity of Ackley Financial Group, Inc., Atmos Energy, AT&T Yellow Pages, Target, , the Embrey Family Foundation, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Liberty Capital Bank, Rainmaker Advertising and The Shubert Foundation.
