At the Ark at Eight
Meet the Design Team!
Ike Yen (Sound Engineer) is currently a undergraduate student at University of Wisconsin Madison, majoring in classics. He started playing piano at the age of 4. His passion for music and sound has been growing ever since. 80's rock n' roll music is one of his favorites. He has shown great interests in various fields, including film making and music production. To pursue a media production related career is his goal. His started his first step as an assistant sound designer for the play Odyssey last fall.
Henk van der Schalk (musician/composer) played with- and wrote for several theater-makers in the netherlands and played all over the world. "once did a nap surrounded by thousands of Atlantic Puffins on the Skellig Islands (Ireland), maybe distant family of the penguin" he likes to eat fish and swim in oceans a lot.
Shuxing Fan (Set Designer) has been a set designer for over 30 years and from the other side of the globe - China. He started to draw things and make little toys when he was 6 years old triggered by some cool things he liked but didn't have the chance to buy or get it. All of the drawings started on his grandma's wooden floor with chalk. More and more practices finally has made him a designer and artist who has even done the logo design for our president.
Glenn DiNicola (Lighting Designer) Glenn's favorite color is red and he likes walking his dog, even though his dog is not much like a penguin. He has designed lighting in Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, none of which feel as much like a penguins home as Wisconsin. In this, his final show at UW-Madison Glenn wishes to thank Lyndsee, his family, his many teachers K-19, and his fellow students. He has been hired and will be starting a career with Epic Systems upon graduation this Spring.
Jim Greco (Costume Designer) is from Villa Park, a suburb outside the city of Chicago. He has worked in many states making costumes. Can you find these states on a map? Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin. Jim teaches students how to make costumes, sew, do their makeup, make hats, masks, and other cool things. For At the Ark at Eight, Jim designed the costumes. The best part of this job is being able to create cool animal costumes. As the costume studio manager, Jim makes sure the costumes get made like the designer drew them. He also makes sure the costume studio is stocked with supplies, creates the costumes, sews them, and makes sure they fit the actors just right. He has been the costume studio supervisor at the UW-Madison since the fall of 2001.
Dan Lisowski (Technical Director) designs technical solutions for theatrical environments and manages the scenery construction process. He likes to figure out what tools, materials, and steps need to be used to build what the directors and designers imagine for a show; like the walls that move in this performance. He has never met a penguin, but he and his wife have 5 children who love to slide down hills of snow.
