News & Views from the Drama Desk
TALENT BEHIND THE SCENES DRAMA DESK PANEL DISCUSSION
WITH DESIGNERS PEGGY EISENHAUER, DAVID KORINS, JAMES MORGAN AND
MIMI O' DONNELL, MODERATED BY JAMES HOUGHTON
The Drama Desk will shine the spotlight on some of New York theater’s leading behind-the-scenes creative talents at the organization’s
first special Panel of the new year on Thursday, January 31, 2008, 5:30 to 7:30 PM at BMI, 320 West 57th Street,
3rd Floor.
The Panel, entitled The Talent Behind The Scenes, will feature Lighting Designer Peggy Eisenhauer, Set Designers
David Korins and James Morgan and Costume Designer Mimi O'Donnell. The Panel discussion will be moderated by
James Houghton, Artistic Director of the Drama Desk-winning Signature Theatre Company. The event is produced by Drama Desk members
Elyse Sommer and Ellis Nassour.
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Peggy Eisenhauer, who created the lighting for the 2007 revival of The Ritz, won the
Tony Award and Drama Desk Award in 2004 for her lighting design for Assassins andin 2001 she earned a
Tony nomination for her lighting on Jane Eyre
David Korins is co-founder and producer of Edge Theater Company, as well as a freelance scenic and production designer.
He has received three Drama Desk Award nominations for his work as a set designer – Essential Self Defense and Jack
Goes Boating, both in 2007, and for Orange Flower Water in 2005
Scenic designer/producer James Morgan is Artistic Director of York Theatre Company which was awarded a Drama Desk Special Award in
2007 for its “vital contributions to theater by developing and presenting new musicals.”
Mimi O’Donnell has designed for the LABrynth Theatre production of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings,
staged by Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Patrick Shanley’s Where’s My Money? at the Manhattan Theatre Club, while working as
a costume designer at NBC-TV’s Saturday Night Live.
Press Contact for Drama Desk .
Les Schecter
Tel: 212/586-2600
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