Guest Artists/Special Events
Barbara A. Bell
Barbara returns to Williams College where she has frequently been a guest artist/visiting faculty and designed shows such as The Brecht Plays, Tom's Suite, and King Lear, or worked on such shows as Twelfth Night, Death and the Maiden and In a Lake of Fire. Professionally, she is a freelance costume designer with over 200 designs for such theatres as Pearl Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Jean Cocteau Repertory. She has also done work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Company, George Street Playhouse and Syracuse Stage. She has been a visiting faculty/guest artist at Washington and Lee University, Hunter College, Brown University, West Virginia University, Princeton University and SUNY New Paltz. She was resident costume designer at Coconut Grove Playhouse, Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre and the Alley Theatre. She is a recipient of a Princess Grace Foundation Grant. Since August 2005, Barbara has served as the costume shop supervisor at Williams College.
Peter Erickson
Peter Erickson received his B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Amherst College; spent a graduate year on fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in England; and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Cruz. One of the founders of feminist Shakespeare criticism in the early 1980s, Erickson is currently part of a group of scholars working to establish the study of race, including racial whiteness, in the field of Renaissance culture. His wider interests are both cross-disciplinary—with dual commitments to literature and visual art—and cross-historical—with strong investments in contemporary culture, as well as the Renaissance. Erickson is the author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare’s Drama (1985), Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (1991), and Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art (2007). He has co-edited three volumes: Shakespeare’s “Rough Magic” (1985), Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England (2000), and Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Othello (2005).
Sam Gold
Sam Gold’s recent credits include Betty Shamieh’s THE BLACK EYED (New York Theater Workshop), Colin McKenna’s THE SECRET AGENDA OF TREES (Cherry Lane), Rogelio Martinez’s FIZZ (The Ohio Theater), TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING (The Hangar Theater), Joanna Laurens’ THE THREE BIRDS (GAle GAtes), and Betty Shamieh‘s CHOCOLATE IN HEAT (The Tank). Sam is the Resident Director at the Juilliard School, where his credits include TWELFTH NIGHT, Williams’ SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, Beau Willimon’s FARRAGUT NORTH, Suzan-Lori Parks’ IN THE BLOOD, and Marlowe’s EDWARD II for the Juilliard Centennial Tour (REDCAT, LA/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago). Upcoming projects include Noah Haidle’s RAG AND BONE (Rattlestick), Beau Willimon’s WAR STORY (Juilliard) and Anne Carson’s translation of ELEKTRA (Williams College). From 2003 to 2006, Sam served as Dramaturg at The Wooster Group. He is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a Drama League Directing Fellow, a recipient of the Princess Grace Award, and a graduate of The Juilliard Directing Program.
David Evans Morris
David Evans Morris makes original performance work and scenographic environments for the theater. He co-conceived and designed scenery for ORPHEUS, an alt-rock opera (directed by Kristin Marting) based on the Classical myth, the design of which was selected to represent the United States at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Also with Ms. Marting: ERENDIRA, DEAD TECH, and POSSESSED. With Les Freres Corbusier (Associate Artist) he co-created and designed the Off-Broadway hit about urban planning, BOOZY: THE LIFE, DEATH, AND SUBSEQUENT VILIFICATION OF LE CORBUSIER AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, ROBERT MOSES, and designed scenery for the Obie-winning A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT, THE FRANKLIN THESIS and PRESIDENT HARDING IS A ROCK STAR. As an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb he designed scenery for QUAIL, DEMON BABY, THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM, and THE TRAIN PLAY. David received a Princess Grace Fellowship in 2005, and was a member of the HERE Artist Residency Program from 2005-2007, where he and collaborator Juliet Chia developed EXERCISES FOR THE BODY POLITIC, a series of theatrical events about American civic life.
Julie Seitel
Julie Seitel is a freelance lighting designer, stage manager, and production manager based in New York City and North Adams, Massachusetts. Recent designs include the new rock musical Autumn Moon, in New York City; A Streetcar Named Desire in Colorado Springs; the musical Chicago in Oklahoma City; and many productions here at Williams College, where she is a frequent guest artist. Recent stage management credits include Desperate Measures at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and Hurlyburly at the Mint Theater. Julie is a member of the New York City theatre company The Drama Dept. and is also a member of United Scenic Artists. She has been a member of the theatre faculty at Williams College and Stony Brook University, teaching lighting design, stagecraft, and stage management.
Peter West
Recent Lighting Designs: Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights- work in progress (co-design w/Christopher Akerlind) at the American Dance Festival, Yeast Nation at Perseverance Theatre (Juneau, Alaska), Ghosts (The Juilliard School), Perfect Partner (w/Kim Gordon, Phil Morrison and Tony Oursler), Grifflekin (Manhattan School Of Music), Edward the 2nd, The Revenger’s Tragedy and Pericles (Red Bull Theatre) Acts of Mercy (Rattlestick). Other New York: 9 Parts of Desire at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, Flea, Danspace St. Marks, Fordham. Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Geva, Cleveland Playhouse, Huntington, Playmakers, California Shakespeare Theatre. Dance: Edisa Weeks, Amy Spencer/Richard Colton, Peter Pucci, Danny Eszralow, Nina Winthrop, David Parker, White Oak Dance Project (Lighting Director)