Apples in Winter by Jennifer Fawcett
Directed by Kirstin Franklin
Featuring Roxanne Fay
Urbanite Theatre, Sarasota FL
Production Team: Brendan Ragan (Artistic Director), Summer Dawn Wallace (Artistic Director), Amanda LaForge (Production Manager), Daniel Kelly (Artistic Associate), Mel Klenk (Stage Manager), Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Jo Averill-Snell (Lighting Designer), Mak Booher (Properties Master), Dee Sullivan (Costume Designer), Rew Tippin (Sound Designer) Rick Cannon (Scenic Charge).
Photo credit: Dylan Jon Wade Cox
“Fay’s fine performance has a perfect setting in the industrial kitchen designed by Chad Eric Bergman, who makes the small playing space seem bigger than usual, even with the large utility sink and oven and metal prep counters, resting against the grease- and rust-stained walls.” Herald-Tribune
“Chad Eric Bergman, you are a genius.” Broadway World
Bad Girls: The Stylists by Astrid Saalbach
Directed by Breahan Eve Pautsch
Akvavit Theatre at The Strawdog Theatre
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Lily Walls (Costume Designer), David Goodman-Edberg (Lighting Designer), Nigel Harsch (Sound Designer), Hillarie Shockley (Props Designer), Rick Gilbert and Victor Bayona (Violence/Intimacy Designer) Keith Ryan (Hair/Wig Designer), Lindsay Tornquist (Asst. Director), Harrison Ornelis (Technical Director) and Hannah Harper-Smith (Stage Manager).
Photo Credit: Karl Soderstrom
Blue Planet, Andri Snær Magnason
Akvavit Theatre at DCASE Storefront Theater
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Jim Moore (Technical Director), John Kelly (Lighting Designer), Kim Morris (Costume Designer), Adam MacAleavey (Puppet Designer), Will Huff (Sound Designer).
Recommended (3 stars), Chicago Tribune, Recommended, Chicago Reader
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They Died Where They Lied, Sofia Fredén
Akvavit Theatre at the Den Theatre
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Michael Sater (Lighting Designer), Christina Marcantonio (Costume Designer)
Photo Credit: Mark Litwicki
The Frozen on the Square (1982), by Lucas Svensson
Akvavit Theatre at the Den Theatre
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Maggie Fullilove-Nugent (Lighting Designer), Christina Marcantonio (Costume Designer).
Photo Credit: Mark Litwicki
Ghosts & Zombies, by Henrik Ibsen & Gustav Tegby
Akvavit Theatre at The Strawdog Theatre
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer and Translator), David Edberg-Goodman (Lighting Designer), Rachel Sypniewski (Costume Designer), Nigel Harsch (Sound Designer).
Photo Credit: Karl Soderstrom
“As usual, Akvavit’s cast and design team are top-notch.” Chicago Reader
Gjenganer: Three Plays by Jon Fosse
A Summer's Day, Autumn Dream, Winter
Akvavit Theatre at DCASE Storefront Theater
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Kyle Korynta (Translator) Jim Moore (Technical Director), Kristina Carr (Costume Designer), Jared Moore (Lighting Designer), Nigel Harsch (Sound Designer).
Recommended, Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, Chicago Theater Beat
“Chad Eric Bergman's set -- a sweeping wooden wall suggesting a fjord-- transforms the Storefront space with distinctive flair. Mix it with Chicago's recent frosty gray skies and you might just think you're in Norway.” Chicago Sun-Times
Hand in Hand, by Sofia Fredén
Directed by Breahan Eve Pautsch
Akvavit Theatre at the Den Theatre
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer and Translator), Emma Deane (Lighting Designer), Nigel Harsch (Sound Designer), R&D Choreography (Violence/Intimacy Designers)
“crafty design” –Chicago Reader
Hitler on the Roof, by Rhea Leman
Akvavit Theatre at The Strawdog Theatre and Theatre on the Lake
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Emma Deane (Lighting Designer), Letitia Guillaud (Prop Designer), Nigel Harsch (Sound Designer).
Photo Credit: Karl Soderstrom
Kokkola, by Leea Klemola
Akvavit Theatre at the Rivendell Theatre
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Design), Maggie Fullilove-Nugent (Lighting Design), Sarah Nelson (Scenic Design and Prop Design), Kristina Carr (Costume Design), Nigel Harsch (Sound Design) and Nina Saalinen (Translator).
Photo Credit: Maggie Fullilove-Nugent
“ingenious design” –Chicago Reader
Mishap, by By Bjarni Jónsson
Akvavit Theatre at the Side Project
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Maggie Fullilove-Nugent (Lighting Designer), Christina Marcantonio (Costume Designer).
Photo Credit: Maggie Fullilove-Nugent
Highly Recommended (4 stars) and Critic’s Pick, Time Out Chicago
Nothing of Me, by Arne Lygre
Akvavit Theatre at The Signal Theatre
Production Team: Chad Eric Bergman (Scenic Designer), Christina Marcantonio (Costume Designer), Emma Deane (Lighting Designer), Nigel Harsch (Sound Designer).
“elegantly designed.” Chicago Reader
Photo Credit: Emily Schwartz
