CARL GUDENIUS (Co-Scenic Designer) has been resident designer for Washington Stage Guild since 1995, having designed scenery and lighting for dozens of productions, most recently collaborating with Jingwei Dai on the set for Candida. He is the director of The George Washington University’s production design and exhibit design programs and an active professional designer as owner and principal designer of DCP/Design Concept Presentations, LLC. His scenic and lighting work has been seen at many Washington theaters including the Kennedy Center, Olney Theatre Center, MetroStage, Church Street Theatre, Horizons, and Interact.
JINGWEI DAI (Co-Scenic Designer) is from China, and holds an MFA degree from The George Washington University with a focus on production design. This is his sixth Washington Stage Guild production, after serving as the set designer for Last Train to Nibroc in 2017, in 2018 as co-designer with Kirk Kristlibas on Alabama Story and with Carl Gudenius and Kirk Kristlibas on All Save One, and on Gulf View Drive with Gudenius in 2019. His most recent design for the Stage Guild was this season’s opener, Candida, which he co-designed with Gudenius.
BASMAH ALOMAR (Costume Designer) is from Saudi Arabia and is a graduate of The George Washington University with an MFA in Production Design concentrating in costume design. Basmah received her BA from Marymount University, with a double major in fashion design and merchandising. She has designed and/or assisted with costumes at GW in various theatrical productions, as well as for DanceWorks from Spring 2011-2014. She has worked as a professional costume designer in the Washington DC area, including work with the Washington Stage Guild: Pygmalion and Back to Methuselah, Part I. As of the spring of 2018, she has worked as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, and in the fall of 2018 she was the costume designer for the Fall Dance Concert at GW.
MARIANNE MEADOWS (Lighting Designer) is a member of United Scenic Artists Local #829. She is a resident lighting designer for the Stage Guild, as well as for Histrio and Theatre Lab. She earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, University of Washington, trained at Lester Polakov’s Studio and Forum of Stage Design. Previous productions include work with the Rep Stage, Solas Nua, Ford’s Theatre, Kennedy Center. Marianne was nominated multiple times for a Helen Hayes Award (Quills at Woolly Mammoth, Old Wicked Songs at Studio Theatre, The Chosen at Theater J). She received Theatre Lobby’s Mary Goldwater Award in 2004. Her most recent design for WSG was Candida.
FRANK DISALVO, JR. (Sound Designer) has designed for several Stage Guild shows including Back to Methuselah, Last Train to Nibroc, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Tiny Island, Elling, Inventing Van Gogh, Dante’s Inferno, and Candida. He has designed at other theaters including WSC Avant Bard, Rorschach Theatre (Very Still and Hard to See, Helen Hayes Award nomination), and The Catholic University of America Department of Drama, where he received his MFA in playwriting. As a writer, his short plays have appeared in the NYC 15-Minute Play Festival, the Lakeshore Players 10-Minute Festival, and the North Park Playwrights Festival. He is the founder of Parlor Room and has directed several plays there, including A Tuna Christmas, Fools, The Nerd, The Mousetrap, and The Ghost Train.
