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the company: designers pascal rioult :: joyce herring  :: dancers :: designers :: board of directors Designers BRIAN CLIFFORD BEASLEY (Projection Design) Mr. Beasley's eclectic career in projection has taken him from regional theater, Broadway, dance, and rock & roll to U2's 2002 Super Bowl half-time show. More recently, he was the associate projection designer for All My Sons on Broadway, project designer for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz & Art 2010 and has had the pleasure of working on such varied productions as Fela, A Little Night Music and Sondheim on Sondheim. Mr. Beasley has also worked with The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet and New York City Opera. HARRY FEINER (Scenic Design) designs scenery and lighting for theater, opera and dance. Dance credits include the NC Dance Theatre, NC School of the Arts and RIOULT. He has designed for the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Two River Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Studio Arena Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, the Colorado, Alabama, NJ and NC Shakespeare Festivals, Stony Brook International Arts Festival, Jewish Repertory Theatre, Irish Arts Center, Central City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Pennsylvania Opera Theatre, Syracuse Opera, Chatauqua Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Orchestra of St. Luke's and Manhattan School of Music. He is also a Professor of Drama, Theater and Dance at Queens College and a recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant to write on theatrical space and architecture. DAVID FINLEY (Lighting Design) Mr. Finley has had the great pleasure of creating lighting for Pascal Rioult and his company since its birth. As the lighting designer/director for Martha Graham Dance Company (1986-1992), his design credits include Night Chant, American Document, Maple Leaf Rag, Eye of the Goddess, Deep Song and Steps in the Street. Selected Television credits: (lighting and set design) include "A Tribute to Andrea Bocelli" (NBC/PBS), "A Tribute to Earth Wind and Fire" (NBC/Bravo), "Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular," 2001-2002 Daytime Emmy Nomination for "Outstanding Lighting Direction". "Scott Hamilton and Friends with Michael Feinstein" was nominated for "Outstanding Special Class Special," 2004-2005 Daytime Emmy Nominations. Recently completed: Tony Awards Preview Concert for CBS, and a Skating series for Disson Skating (NBC). PILAR LIMOSNER (Costume Designer) has designed for dance, theater, and film. Dance credits include: for Karole Armitage, Le Stances A Sophie at The Joyce, I Had a Dream for the Ballet of Monte Carlo, The Dog Is Us for the Deutch Opera, Sheherazade for the Maggio Danza di Firenze, and Predator's Ball at BAM. For RIOULT: Veniziana, Firebird, Les Noces, and If By Chance at The Joyce. For the White Oak Project: Achilles Heels choreographed by Richard Move. Ms. Limosner's other theater work includes Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio at the Public, The Seagull at Second Stage, and At Jennie Ritchee for Ridge Street Theater at St. Ann's for which she won an OBIE. Her film credits include The Yards, The Guru, Ghostlight and We Own the Night. RUSS VOGLER (Costume Designer) currently works with New York City Opera wardrobe and education departments. He was the costumer for the Martha Graham Dance Company where he worked with Martha Graham, Halston, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Robert Wilson and has recently worked with RIOULT, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Twyla Tharp Dance, State Ballet of Missouri, Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, and Monte/Brown Dance among others. Mr. Vogler received a B.F.A. in Ballet/Theatre from Texas Christian University and an M.F.A. in Costume Design from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. KAREN YOUNG (Costume Designer) has designed costumes for numerous dance, theater, and video art projects in New York. Costume design credits for video art include: David Michalek's Slow Dancing recently on view at Lincoln Center, Eve Sussman & the Rufus Corporation's 89 Seconds at Alcazar and The Rape of the Sabine Women, Toni Dove's Spectropia and Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5 and Cremaster 1. Costume design for dance includes recent projects with: RIOULT, the Martha Graham Dance Company (where she has been a costumer for many years), Elisa Monte Dance, Dusan Tynek Dance Theater, Karole Armitage, Philadanco, Noémie Lafrance, Keely Garfield, and Andrea Haenggi/AMDaT, among many others. Theater credits include: The Trojan Women with Allegra Kent and Maria Tucci at Toni Morrison's Princeton Atelier and El Retablo Embrujado in Mexico City. www.karenyoungcostume.com