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Production Staff

Samuel D. Hunter Playwright
Jane Cox Lighting Designer
Cox has starred in episodes of Coronation Street, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and The Bill. Her most notable pre-Emmerdale role was playing JJ in the children's entertainment series Allsorts from 1991 to 1995. She has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank. In March 2019, Cox announced that she would be leaving Emmerdale after 23 years of portraying Lisa Dingle. She made her final physical appearance on 24 May 2019, but made a voiceover appearance on 6 June 2019 in a farewell to her character. However, Cox briefly reprised the role for several voice cameos over the course of October and November ... read more
Mimi Lien Scenic Designer
Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. Arriving at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. She is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company, and co-founder of JACK, a performance/art space in Brooklyn. Recent work includes Signature Plays, John (Signature Theatre), War, Preludes (LCT3), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), Black Mountain Songs (BAM/Brooklyn Youth Chorus), Appropriate (Mark Taper Forum), and An Octoroon (Soho Rep/TFANA). Mimi's designs for dance have been presented in the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan, and her stage designs have ... read more
Jessica Pabst Costume Designer
Fitz Patton Sound Designer
Patton's Broadway credits include Bernhart/Hamlet, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Drama Desk Award), Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Blackbird, The Father, An Act of God, It’s Only a Play, Airline Highway, The Other Place, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina. Off-Broadway his work has included Torch Song; Napoli, Brooklyn; Yen; Prodigal Son; The Other Place (Drama Desk nomination); and When the Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk and Lortel Awards). He is the founding editor of Chance Magazine, a serialized art book on performance and design. ... read more
Alaina Taylor Production Stage Manager

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Awards and Nominations

2013 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Set Design: Mimi Lien was nominated but did not win.

2013 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: Shuler Hensley was nominated but did not win.
Distinguished Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play: 0 was nominated but did not win.

2013 Obie Awards
Performance: Shuler Hensley won.

2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards
John Gassner Award: Samuel D. Hunter was nominated but did not win.

2013 The Lortels
Outstanding Costume Design: Jessica Pabst won.
Outstanding Play: 0 won.

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