Robert Bordo

(scenic design) was born in Montreal and has lived in New York since 1972. His first New York solo show was held at Brooke Alexander in 1987. His most recent solo show, Robert Bordo: Another Day was held in September-October 2005 at Alexander and Bonin, NYC. His collaborations with Mark Morris include sets for Dido and Aeneas, Paukenschlag, Stabat Mater, and The Death of Socrates.

Michael Chybowski

(lighting design) Moby Dick and Other Stories with Laurie Anderson, The Grey Zone (Long Wharf Theatre), Andrei Belgrader's production of Waiting for Godot (Classic Stage Company), Cymbeline (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre), Playboy of the Western World (Steppenwolf Theatre), and the original production of Wit. For the Mark Morris Dance Group, he has designed over thirty dances, including Four Saints in Three Acts for English National Opera and Falling Down Stairs, which toured the U.S. with cellist Yo Yo Ma. Nominated for an American Theatre Wing design award for his lighting of David Rabe's A Question of Mercy and also for The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson. Received a 1999 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, the American Theatre Wing Design Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award for 1999.

Stephen Hendee

(scenic design) has shown his dynamic sculptural environments in numerous museums in the U.S. and abroad since 1997. Recent exhibitions include the New Museum of Contemporary Art, SculptureCenter, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, St. Louis Art Museum, The David Smart Museum at the Univeristy of Chicago, the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL. He is also the recipient of many prestigious art foundation awards, amoung them: The Louis Comfort Tiffany award, a Pollock-Krasner grant, an Elizabeth Foundation grant and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program.

Howard Hodgkin

(scenic design) was born in London in 1932 and evacuated during the war to the United States, where he lived on Long Island from 1940 to 1943. He studied at the Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in the following year won the Turner Prize. He was knighted in 1992 and made a Companion of Honour in 2003.

An exhibition of his Paintings 1975–1995, organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, opened in 1995 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and toured to museums in Fort Worth and Düsseldorf, and to London’s Hayward Gallery. A retrospective opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in spring 2006. It traveled to London’s Tate Britain and then to El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. A survey exhibition of paintings made in the last 15 years opened at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven in February 2007, and is on at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge until September 23. A touring print show organized by the Barbican Art Gallery is on at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath between July 28 and September 30. It will later travel to Belfast.

Sir Howard first worked in the theater in 1981, when he designed the set and costumes for Richard Alston’s Night Music with the Ballet Rambert. They later collaborated on Pulcinella, which was filmed by the BBC and released on DVD. Mark Morris asked Sir Howard to design the backcloth for Rhymes with Silver (1997), for Kolam (2002), and for Mozart Dances (2006). Howard Hodgkin is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York, Los Angeles, and London.

James F. Ingalls

(lighting design) designs for Mark Morris include Orfeo ed Euridice (Metropolitan Opera); King Arthur (English National Opera); Sylvia, Sandpaper Ballet, Maelstrom, and Pacific (San Francisco Ballet); Platée (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and New York City Opera); L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Dido and Aeneas, and The Hard Nut (Mark Morris Dance Group); Ein Herz (Paris Opera Ballet); and the initial White Oak Project tour. His work for Lincoln Center includes Zaide, Ainadamar, and Bach Cantatas, all directed by Peter Sellars, and Renaissance Muse, directed by Mark Lamos. At the Metropolitan Opera Mr. Ingalls has also designed An American Tragedy, Salome, Benvenuto Cellini, The Gambler, War and Peace, and Wozzeck. Most recently he designed A Flowering Tree and La Passion de Simone (New Crowned Hope at the Barbican Centre, London), Dr. Atomic (Holland Festival/De Nederlandse Opera and San Francisco Opera), and The Cherry Orchard at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He often collaborates with Saint Joseph Ballet in Santa Ana, California.

Maira Kalman

(scenic design) was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than thirty years without formal training. Her work is a narrative journal of her life and all its absurdities. She has written and illustrated twelve children's books including Ooh-la-la- Max in Love, What Pete Ate, and Swami on Rye . She often illustrates for The New Yorker magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the NewYorkistan cover in 2001. Recent projects include The Elements of Style (illustrated), and a monthly on-line column entitled Principles of Uncertainty for The New York Times. She collaborated with Mark Morris in the Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera, Four Saints in Three Acts (2000).

Elizabeth Kurtzman

(costume design) was born in Manhattan. She began her career as a product and textile designer for several prestigious New York design houses after studying fashion at Parsons School of Design. She then added costume design and illustration to her list of vocations and designed numerous pieces for the Mark Morris Dance Group including Dancing Honeymoon, The Argument, Greek to Me and Four Saints in Three Acts. Kurtzman lives and works in New York City.

Adrianne Lobel

(scenic design) past projects for Mark Morris : Platèe (Royal Opera, London, Edinburgh and New York City Opera ); L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (La Monnaie-Brussels, BAM-NY); The Hard Nut (La Monnaie-Brussels, BAM-NY); Le Nozze di Figaro (Brussels); Orfeo ed Euridice (BAM-NY, US tour). Sets for Broadway: On the Town, directed by George C. Wolfe; Also The Diary of Anne Frank, Tony award-winning Passion, Twelve Dreams (Lincoln Center), all directed by James Lapine. European commissions include: Lady in The Dark (Royal National Theatre, London), Street Scene (Houston Grand Opera) both directed by Francesca Zambello. Projects for Peter Sellars: The Rake's Progress (Chatelet, Paris); Nixon in China (BAM-NY, Bobigny-Paris, Amsterdam); The Marriage of Figaro (Pepsico Summerfare-NY, Bobigny-Paris); Cosi Fan Tutte (Pepsico Summerfare-NY); The Magic Flute (Glyndebourne Festival, England); The Mikado (Chicago Lyric Opera). Honors: Lucille Lortel, Obie, Long Wharf's Murphy Award, Emmy and Jefferson Award and Drama Desk, Maharam, and Fanny nominations. Ms. Lobel teaches graduate set design at NYU and in 2004 produced and designed A Year with Frog and Toad, a musical based on the children's books by her father. Her most recent collaboration with MMDG is on the Purcell opera, King Arthur.

Isaac Mizrahi

(costume design) was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the High School of Performing Arts as an acting major and studied fashion at Parsons School of Design. In 1987, he opened his own clothing business and is a three time CFDA Designer of the Year award winner. In 1998 he closed the ready to wear company but still designs a shoe collection, a collection of coats and a collection of fine jewelry, and an exclusive line for Target stores. He has designed costumes for movies, theatre, dance and opera in collaboration with Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, Bill T. Jones and Mikhail Baryshnikov. In 1995, Mizrahi was the subject of the highly acclaimed documentary Unzipped, directed by Douglas Keeve which won the 1995 Audience Award for Documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival. Distributed by Miramax Films, the film was screened internationally at the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals and opened nationally on August 4, 1995. In 1996, he and Douglas Keeve received a special CFDA Award for bringing the fashion world to cinema. In 1997, he wrote a series of comic books entitled The Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel (published by Simon & Schuster), now in development as a major motion picture with Dreamworks (SKG). He appeared off-Broadway in his one man show entitled Les Mizrahi which was produced by the Drama Department. In fall 2005 the Isaac show debuted on Style Network. He previously had a show on the Oxygen Network. Mr. Mizrahi's interests lie in the entertainment industry as well as in fashion and he dreams one day of merging the two fields, functioning as the first entertainer/designer. He is currently working on Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera for Mark Morris.

Allen Moyer

(scenic design) most recently designed the Broadway productions of Grey Gardens, The Constant Wife, Twelve Angry Men, In My Life, Reckless, The Man Who Had All the Luck, and A Thousand Clowns. Off-Broadway he has designed Douglas Carter Beane’s Little Dog Laughed, Lobby Hero, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Mr. Marmalade, The Dazzle, This is Our Youth, Well, As Bees in Honey Drown, and John Guare’s A Few Stout Individuals (directed by Michael Greif). His opera work includes productions for San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe, Glimmerglass, Houston Grand, and Scottish Opera. His previous work with Mark Morris includes Sylvia, for the San Francisco Ballet, Orfeo ed Euridice for the Metropolitan Opera, and Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare.

Martin Pakledinaz

(costume design) has designed costumes for theater, opera, and dance. He has collaborated with Mark Morris on works for the Mark Morris Dance Group, San Francisco Ballet, and Boston Ballet, and worked with the New York City Ballet, including Christopher Wheeldon’s recent The Nightingale and The Rose. Mr. Pakledinaz’s New York credits include Gypsy, starring Patti Lupone and directed by Arthur Laurents; The Pirate Queen; The Pajama Game (Tony Award nomination); The Trip to Bountiful; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Wonderful Town; The Wild Party; A Year with Frog and Toad; Kiss Me, Kate; Golden Child; The Diary of Anne Frank; Waste; and The Life. His work in opera includes Rodelinda for the Metropolitan Opera; Tristan und Isolde for the Paris Opera/Bastille, directed by Peter Sellars with video installations by Bill Viola; as well as two other world premiere works directed by Sellars, L’Amour de Loin and Adriana Mater, composed by Kaija Saariaho with librettos by Amin Maalouf.

Upcoming projects include Grease on Broadway and Iphigénie en Tauride, a co-production of the Seattle and Metropolitan Operas.

He has been awarded two Tony Awards and the Obie, Drama Desk, and Lucille Lortel awards, among others.

Katherine M. Patterson

(costume design) designed the costumes for several MMDG works including Foursome, Kolam, Something Lies Beyond the Scene, Rock of Ages, Marble Halls, Cargo, and Candleflowerdance. She has also designed for the José Limón Company, Singapore Dance Theater, Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, Ice Theater of New York, and American Ballet Theater Studio Company, among others. Her work has been seen at The New York State Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Joyce Theater, Whitney Museum at Altria, Harvard Dance Center, Jacob's Pillow, Saint Mark's Church, and Dance Theater Workshop. Patterson has a B.F.A. from Cooper Union.

Nicole Pearce

(lighting design) With Mark Morris: All Fours, Rock of Ages, From Old Seville, Candleflowerdance, Cargo, and Up and Down for the Boston Ballet. Other dance credits include: Swan Lake and The Little Mermaid _(Ballet Memphis); _Carmina Burana (Ballet Theatre of Maryland); Choreographers and Composers (The Juilliard School); And Hold the Line with choreographer Alexander Proia (Symphony Space). Theatre credits include: The Sugar Syndrome (Williamstown Theatre Festival). New York credits include: Trial by Water (Ma Yi Theatre Company); Memoire _(LABrynth Theatre Company); _Mimesophobia and Wet (SPF); 16 Wounded and 99 histories (Cherry Lane alternative); Sakharam Binder (The Play Company); Blood in the Sink; The Secret Garden; Jump Rope; An Unseen Energy Swallows Space (The Kitchen); Judith; five productions with the Juilliard School Drama Division.