Jackob Hofmann is an Adjunct Professor of Acting and Director in the Theatre Program at Fairfield University, where he teaches, directs, and assists in other areas of theatre including dramaturgy and new play development. He has directed Off-Broadway productions for Abingdon Theatre (Engaging Shaw and Blame it on Beckett). His play, A Persistent Memory, was produced Off-Broadway at The Beckett Theatre, Theatre Row, by MBL Productions. Theatre Fairfield productions include: Rhinoceros, Avenue Q, Silent Sky, and Authenticity,  as well as other original plays in TF’s ongoing series Theatre In The Raw / The Lucille Lortel Festival of New Plays.

He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing from The University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is a proud member of SDC, Actor’s Equity, and SAG-AFTRA.

Dr. Marti LoMonaco is Professor and Resident Theatre Director―recent productions include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,  Anne Carson’s adaptation of Sophokles’s Antigone,  Rachel Crothers’s A Man’s World and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. She is the author of two books, most recently Summer Stock: An American Theatrical Phenomenon, editor of “Theatre Exhibitions,” volume 33 of Performing Arts Resources (Fall 2017), and since 2010, editor of “New England Theatre in Review” for New England Theatre Journal.  She curated Bravo! A Century of Theatre in Fairfield County, a theatre history exhibition for the Fairfield Museum and History Center, and has curated three performance series for the Quick Center for the Arts.  She teaches Directing, World Theatre courses, American Drama, American Women Playwrights, Acting, and graduate American Studies courses.  She is also a Kripalu Certified Yoga Instructor, which is part of actor training in many of her productions.  She holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from New York University.

Jessie Lizotte is a proud Theatre Fairfield alum from the class of 2018. She is a freelance scenic designer and general theatre technician based in Fairfield County, CT. Some past projects include Twelfth Night (Shakesperience Productions), Little Shop of Horrors (Fairfield Prep Players), and Mamma Mia (Norwalk Community College). She was resident scenic designer at Music Theatre of Connecticut for their 2019 and 2020 seasons, which included Ragtime, Steel Magnolias, Sylvia, Fully Committed, RFK,  and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.  Jessie is excited to return to Fairfield University to design The Thanksgiving Play. 

As Costumier for the Fairfield University Theatre Program, Julie designs and builds costumes for TF productions, manages the costume shop, and mentors student theatre artists and technicians. Her TF costume design credits include Silent Sky, The Taming of the Shrew, Dead Man’s Cellphone, The Arabian Nights,  and The Rocky Horror Show, among many others. She also collaborated with Shakesperience Productions in Waterbury, CT, costuming Shakespeare from Comedy of Errors to King Lear, as well as The Sword in the Stone  and Alice in Wonderland.  Before coming to Fairfield, Julie was an Assistant Professor of English at Westfield State College, the Assistant Costume Designer at Chicago’s The Goodman Theatre, and a freelance costume designer at Organic Theatre Company (Mere Mortals), Pyewackett Theatre (The Belle of Amherst), and Emerald City Children’s Theatre (The Wizard of Oz). She holds an MFA in Costume Design from Northwestern University, and a BA in Theatre and English Literature from the University of New Hampshire.

Lynne Chase (lighting designer) has lit over 200 productions nationwide. Highlights include Doubt (Portland Stage Company), As You Like It and Enchanted April (Pioneer Theatre), Light Up the Sky and La Bête (Two River Theatre) and Speed-the-Plow  and Over the Tavern (Merrimack Repertory Theatre.) She has spent 17 summers working in rotating repertory and counts among her favorite shows Pericles, King Lear, Hamlet and The Glass Menagerie (Theater at Monmouth.) She has worked extensively at Horse Cave Theatre and Penobscot Theatre Company (Art, Betrayal, The Crucible, and Skylight among others.) Memorable shows at Fairfield include Arabian Nights, Cabaret, Three Sisters, Romeo & Juliet, Dancing at Lughnasa, Avenue Q  and The Spitfire Grill. Lynne is a graduate of Cornell, Harvard and the Yale School of Drama and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829.  www.lynnechaselights.com  

Anne is the Technical Director and Production Manager for Theatre Fairfield.  She also teaches courses in Entertainment Technology, Prop Construction, and Lighting Design.

Lynne Porter is a theatre professor and the Resident Designer of Theatre Fairfield.  At Fairfield, Lynne has designed numerous productions such as Avenue Q, Stop Kiss, Rhinoceros, The Rocky Horror Show, She Stoops to Conquer, Lend Me a Tenor, and Waiting for Godot.  In addition to her work with Theatre Fairfield, Lynne has designed extensively with Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, where she is an Affiliated Artist of the Ensemble.  She has also designed for CT Lyric Opera, Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre, Horizon Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, and the Maine Shakespeare Festival, among others.  Lynne is also the Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare Ventures, a professional classical summer theatre, where she both directed and designed.  Over the past few years, Lynne has done extensive research on creativity and the design process, culminating in her book, Unmasking Theatre Design  which was recently published by Focal Press.  lynneporter.com