THE CREATIVE TEAM

  • Roger Peltzman's creative team member, Jessi D. sitting with short hair, wearing glasses, a plaid shirt, and a leather jacket, taking a selfie outdoors.

    JESSI D. HILL

    Director

    Jessi is a theatre director based in New York City. New York credits include new work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater/Joe’s Pub, 59E59, P73, The New Group, Rattlestick and many others. She has been a director and teacher at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center/NTI, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, and others. She is currently Artistic Director of The Flying Carpet Theatre Co and is on the Artistic Team at Rattlestick Theater. Her work has been seen internationally in Edinburgh, London, New Zealand, Berlin, Hamburg Rome and Venice. Director - Jessi D. Hill

  • Create duo for Roger Peltzman's play DEDICATION, JASON THOMPSON AND KAITLYN PIETRAS OF PXT STUDIOS side-by-side black and white portraits of a woman with glasses and a man, both facing forward.

    JASON THOMPSON and KAITLYN PIETRAS | PXT STUDIOS

    Projection Design

    They’ve designed for major companies and theaters all over the world including: The Industry, Vienna State Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Walt Disney Creative Entertainment, Center Theatre Group, LA Philharmonic, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Carnegie Hall, The Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, New World Orchestra, The Public Theatre, Broadway, The Guthrie Theatre, Kansas City Rep, The Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, and Ars Nova. Collectively they have won two Los Angeles Ovation Awards, four LADCC awards, as well as having work showcased at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019, 2015, and 2011.

  • Roger Peltzman's creative team member, Kate Ashton with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a dark blouse, standing outdoors in front of blurry trees, smiling with one hand on her hip.

    KATE ASHTON

    Lighting Design

    Kate is the Resident Lighting Designer for Williams College Dance Department and Syren Modern Dance. Kate’s work was selected for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and she was nominated for a 2011 Henry Hewes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She made her Public Theater debut in February 2015 with Josephine & I, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. In 2016, Kate lit director Edward Berkeley’s adaptation of Romeo & Juliet at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.

  • Roger Peltzman's creative team member, Jane Shaw portrait of a woman with medium-length dark hair, smiling slightly in front of a plain background.

    JANE SHAW

    Sound Design

    In New York City Jane’s design and composition work includes The Killer, Measure for Measure (Theater for a New Audience), Actually (MTC/Williamstown Theatre Festival), Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons/ Drama Desk Nomination), Ironbound (Rattlestick, Women's Project), and numerous productions at the Mint and the Pearl.

    International touring includes Merce Cunningham, Baryshnikov Productions, and Wind Up Bird Chronicles.

  • Jessica R. Jenen

    Jessica R. Jenen

    General Manager

    Jessica R. Jenen is a Four-time Tony Award winning producer and has been an international producer, theatrical manager and consultant for thirty-five years. Tony Awards: Sunset Boulevard; Stereophonic; Parade; Company. Executive Producer, 2024 & 2025 Drama Desk Awards. Select Additional Broadway: Giant; Waiting for Godot; Buena Vista Social Club, Into the Woods, Venus in Fur, the most produced play in America in 2014. Ms. Jenen was a lead producer of the London Olivier Award Winner: Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical. Select Additional West End: All My Sons; Giant (Olivier Award). Former Executive Director, Classic Stage Company; Board of Directors, Off Broadway League; Member Broadway League. www.JRJTheatrical.com.