Designer, Stage Management & Crew

Student Designers and Stage Management Teams

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Assistant Director - Andrew Ajaka, Junior Theatre major from New Rochelle, NY - Andrew is a junior theatre Major who has been in several main-stage shows since his freshman year. He played 'Baldy' in A Man of No Importance, 'Harry the Horse' in Guys and Dolls and 'Manfred/Oscar' Understudy in Sweet Charity before the pandemic. He has recently started his directing track and will be directing later this semester.

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Stage Manager - Cady Vitale, Senior Theatre major from Mattituck, NY. Cady discovered her passion for technical theatre in the Hinman Production Company and changed her major from French Linguistics to Theatre. She was an assistant stage manager on A Man of No Importance last year.

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Artist in Scenic Design Studio - Emma Miller, Junior Theatre major and Sculpture minor from Queen, NY. This is Emma Miller’s first time assisting a scenic designer. Her previous work in the theatre department has been mostly in stage management. She stage managed “Fish Eye” and was an assistant stage manager for “Burial at Thebes.” Both of these experiences have lead to her interest in this production.

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Artist in Scenic Design Studio - Benjamin Kahn, Senior Theatre major from Bronx, NY. Ben Kahn grew up being enriched by theater in Riverdale, New York where he became actively involved in his high school theater program. Majoring in technical theater at Binghamton University, his passion for theater only expanded. He has worked on the construction crew of several shows throughout his college career, including Man of no Importance, Baltimore, and Burial at Thieves. He is serving as a design assistant to the head designer at Binghamton Laura Fine Hawkes, for the shows Everybody and Twilight LA. Outside of theater Ben enjoys working in carpentry and utilizing his EMT skills when backpacking and mountain biking. Ben hopes to continue working in technical theater by designing and building scenery and props. 

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Artist in Scenic Design Studio - Lisa Xu, Senior Theatre Major from Beijing, China. 

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Sound Designer - Paul Guardiola from Millbrook, NY. Theatre Major, Class of 2022. Paul is a Junior at Binghamton University. His previous work includes Sound Design for 42nd Street at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. At Binghamton University; Sound Run Crew for The Burial at Thebes, Assistant Sound Designer for A Man of No Importance, and Sound Co-Designer for Sweet Charity and Macbeth here at Binghamton. He is very excited to be working on this show.

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Assistant Lighting Designer - Alyssa Paulo, Sophomore from Wappingers Falls. Previous theatre credits include The Wolves (Soccer Mom), Twelfth Night (Maria), The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess). And Then There Were None (Senior Lighting Coordinator, Board Operator) A Man of No Impotance (Light Board Operator) Macbeth (Assistant Master Electrician).

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First Assistant Stage Manager - Jenna Cooperman, Sophomore Theater and Neuroscience major from Rockland County, NY. I have been working backstage on shows since I was young, and have always hoped to help Stage Manage a show. After Stage Managing and Assistant Stage Managing at a variety of theaters in the Rockland County region, I decided that I needed to continue this path in college, and am so greatful to be a part of Everybody.

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Assistant Stage Manager - Kayla Manfrede, Senior Graphic Design Major and Theater minor from Walton, NY. In high school, Kayla acted in The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Wizard of Oz, The Odd Couple, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. By being a part of the music program in high school, she was given the chance to see four Broadway productions, Cinderella, Les Mis, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Phantom of the Opera. In college, she decided that backstage work would better suit her and became interested in the inner workings and backstage secrets of theater.

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