The How & the Why: Meet the Designers

Lana Palmer (Producer/Director/Sound Designer/Properties Master/Costume Coordinator) is a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based theatre and filmmaker. Sound Design credits include Race (Dragon Theatre), School Girls (Kansas City Rep/Regional Premiere), The Grapes of Wrath (Los Altos Stage), For Colored Girls (African-American Shakespeare Company), The Revolutionists (Town Hall Theatre Company/Bay Area Premiere), and Dracula (Inferno Theatre), for which she was nominated for a TBA Award for Original Music. Her directing credits include Red and The North Pool (Bread & Butter Theatre), and staged readings of Middletown (Actors Ensemble of Berkeley) and Uncanny Valley (Town Hall Theatre Company). 

Rebekah Lazar (Stage Manager) (Bekah for short) is a university student studying theatre design and production at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. Her main focus is on stage management, lighting, and anything else she has the opportunity to learn about. She feels so fortunate to work with and learn from such a passionate and driven team that inspires her to do what she loves to do. Bekah would like to thank everyone who takes a bit of time out of their day to spend a few hours in the world of theatre; after all, a show is nothing without its audience.

Isaac Fine (Scenic Designer) is a second year MFA student at San Francisco State University studying scenic design. His credits include [title of show], Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and The North Pool. He has also worked as a projection designer for Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, and How to Pray. Isaac is thrilled to be working on his first production with the Dragon Theatre. 

Bruce Avery (Lighting Designer) is a Bay Area actor and director as well as Professor of Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University. Lighting design credits include Exit the King and Baltimore Waltz (San Francisco State University) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bread & Butter Theatre Co). Directing credits include Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Much Ado About Nothing, and Baltimore Waltz at San Francisco State University, and Midsummer for Bread & Butter. Acting credits include Rothko in Red, Dr. Danielson in The North Pool, and Polonius in Hamlet.