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Tom Buderwitz

Tom Buderwitz (Scenic Designer) has designed scenery for Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Wallis-Annenberg Center, The Kennedy Center, The Second City, The Goodman, The Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Intiman Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory, Laguna Playhouse, PCPA Theatrefest and Utah Shakespeare Festival among many others. He’s received six LASA Ovation Awards (31 nominations), three Emmy Award nominations, Art Directors Guild Award nomination. Adjunct faculty at U.S.C. School of Dramatic Arts. Proud member United Scenic Artists 829.

Andrew Schmedake

Andrew Schmedake (Lighting Designer) is a Los Angeles-based lighting designer for theater, dance and live events. Recent credits include designs for The Last Five Years, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2018 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award), Dogfight (After Hours Theatre Company), Carmen (Opera Modesto), Native Son (Center Theatre Group), Beyond the Fluffy (Gabriel Iglesias), Steel Magnolias, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The 39 Steps, 33 Variations (2017 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award) (Actors Co-op), Native Son (2018 LA Drama Critics Circle Award) (Antaeus Theatre Company), and The Art Couple (Sacred Fools). Andrew holds an MFA from the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University and teaches as a guest lecturer in lighting design at UC Santa Barbara. 

www.schmedakelightingdesign.com