since 1999. When not freelancing as a
designer, Brian is the Technical Theatre
Instructor and Technical Director for Tampa
Preparatory School. As a designer for Jobsite,
his work has received two Best of the Bay
awards: Best Lighting Design for Einstein’s
Dreams (2011) and Best Local Set Designer
(2014). He also received Broadway World’s
Best Set Design for Time Stands Still and
Return to the Forbidden Planet. Other select
design credits include HIR, The Tempest, A
Skull in Connemara, Lizzie: The Musical,
Lebensraum, Annapurna, Orlando, Twelfth
Night, Macbeth, Mindgame, Picasso at
the Lapin Agile, boom!, The Lieutenant
of Inishmore, The March of the Kite iers,
Gorey Stories, subUrbia and Dracula.
In what little spare time he has, Brian
pursues his passion for visual arts by doing
photography and painting. More info at
bms-designs.com.
SAM EHRNMAN (Charge Artist) is a
recent graduate from the University of South
Florida with a degree in Theater Design. She
primarily works as a scenic artist (recently
providing work for Jobsite’s HIR and The
Tempest) but lends paint-covered hands in
costuming, makeup and scenic construction
when needed. Her work as a painter and
printmaker can be found at ehrnman.
wordpress.com.
MATTHEW RAY (Stage Manager)
has been with Jobsite since 2012 when
he came on board as the company stage
manager. He has worn many hats through
the bay area including stage management
(Jobsite, Stageworks, A Simple Theatre),
directing (Almost an Evening, Stageworks:
Tampaworks, TampaRep: TampaWright,
Musings of a Postmodern Romantic), and
designing (Jobsite, TampaRep). He would
like to thank his friends and family for their
continued support throughout the years, and
is continually thankful to David Jenkins for
his unwavering support and encouragement.
KATRINA STEVENSON (Costume
Designer) most recently appeared onstage in
The Tempest as Ariel and has also been seen
in Cloud Nine as Ellen/Lin/Mrs. Saunders,
The Great Gatsby as Myrtle, Psycho Beach
Party as Marvel Ann, The Maids as Claire,
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in the title role of Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando, and
as Mrs. Van Buren in Intimate Apparel with
American Stage. An award-winning costume
designer, her costumes have been seen
onstage in The Tempest, The Threepenny
Opera, Gorey Stories, The Underpants,
Return to the Forbidden Planet, The Hound
of the Baskervilles, The 39 Steps, and many
more. Katrina holds an MFA in Acting
from the University of Florida and a BA in
Theatre Arts from the University of Northern
Colorado. When not at the theater, Katrina
loves ying on aerial silks and running after
her dogs, Tink and Sherlock.
MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN is
an award-winning actor, director and
playwright. Based in San Francisco,
Michael’s plays have been produced at
theaters throughout the United States, in
Greece, England, Germany, Scotland, Spain,
Columbia, Argentina, Canada, Mexico,
as well as at the Melbourne International
Arts Festival (Australia), the International
Festival of Verbal Art (Berlin), The Spoleto
Festival (Italy), and The Hong Kong Arts
Festival. For the past 17 years, Michael has
been Resident Playwright for the Tony®
and OBIE award-winning (and despite
its name never, ever silent) San Francisco
Mime Troupe, where he has written or cowritten
over 20 plays. He is also a Resident
Playwright for the Playwrights Foundation,
and was awarded a 2017 artist residency
at the Djerassi Arts Center. Michael’s non-
Mime Troupe plays include the awardwinning
all-woman political farce Recipe,
Red Carol, his critically-acclaimed one
person show, Did Anyone Ever Tell You-
You Look Like Huey P. Newton?, and his
stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984,
which opened at Los Angeles’ Actors’ Gang
Theatre under the direction of Academy
Award®-winning actor Tim Robbins. 1984
has since been produced nationally and
internationally, is published in the United
States, Canada and Spain, and in 2018 will
open in Kiev, Ukraine and Amsterdam,
Netherlands, its fourth and fth languages.
For more on Michael and his wife, Velina
Brown, see a pro le in the February 2017
issue of American Theatre Magazine.