Production Team

Heather Basarab, (Lighting Designer) Recent designs include the beauty that was mine, through the middle, without stopping for Axis Dance Co.; The Shaker Chair and The Forest War with Shotgun players; Taming of the Shrew with The Cutting Ball; and Birdhouse Factory and Highwater Radio with the Pickle Circus. Additionally, Heather's work has been seen with Project Bandaloop, the Dorsch Gallery in Miami, LACMA, Thick Description, Campo Santo, Crowded Fire, STOMP, and the Magic Theatre. Heather's previous work with the JGPG includes production design for Drowsy, for which she received an Isadora Duncan Award, and 7 seasons as production manager; she is honored and excited to rejoin the company in this new capacity.

Jack Carpenter (Lighting Designer) Mr. Carpenter has designed lighting and scenery for Dance, Music, Theater, Museum Exhibits and Opera. Notable designs for Mr. Carpenter include Curlew River for Chanticleer, the world premiere of Angels In America, for the Eureka Theater Company, Walk Before Talk for Diablo Ballet, Arrival and Departure at the San Francisco International Airport, Ghost Architecture, and Invisible Wings for Zaccho Dance Theatre, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Beauty Queen of Leenane for Berkeley Repertory Theater, Sightings, and Thirsting for Oakland Ballet with a live musical performance by Zap Mama, Humansville, Grace, What the Body Knows, and Gender Heroes for Joe Goode Performance Group, Concerto Romantique for San Francisco Ballet, and MLADA for SF Symphony and the exhibit lighting for The Science Adventure Center, Bishop Museum, in Honolulu. He also directed and designed the performance by The Cypress String Quartet: Inspired By America. Mr. Carpenter has received four Bay Area Critics Circle Awards, and four Isadora Duncan Awards for lighting design and is currently the Production Manager for World Arts West, the producers of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.

Erik Flatmo (Scenic Design). This is Erik Flatmo's second project with Joe Goode Performance Group. His designs for the choreographer Trajal Harrell have appeared at Danspace and The Kitchen in New York City, and will return to Danspace in January 2007. His work in theatre encompasses many world premieres by young playwrights, including The Hopper Collection at The Magic Theatre this past fall. He has designed sets for A.C.T., The Civilians (New York City) and The Play Company (New York City). His work in opera includes designs for The Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara) and upcoming work with San Francisco Opera Center. Erik Flatmo holds design degrees from Columbia and Yale, and currently teaches set design at Stanford.

Austin Forbord (Video Designer) is a video artist, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was nominated for an Isadora Duncun Award for performance in 2001 and visual design in 2003. Austin has performed with a diverse group of San Francisco based companies including his own company Rapt, as well as AWD, Scott Wells & Dancers, On-Site Dance Co, Kunst-Stoff and Sara Shelton Mann/Contraband. He has created video backdrops for performances by Joe Goode Performance Group, Robert Moses' Kin, Sara Shelton Mann/Contraband, Stephen Pelton, Erling Wold, Liss Fain Dance, Kunst-Stoff and Motion-Lab. Rapt is also a film company, and Austin recently finished directing and editing dance films for Anna Halprin and Deborah Hull. Rapt is responsible for the critically acclaimed full length documentary, Artists in Exile: A Story of Modern Dance in San Francisco.

Wendy Sparks (costume design) has been designing costumes and clothing in the Bay Area since 1992. Her most recent design credits include Disaster Series and Marat/Sade for UC Berkeley as well as dances for The Joe Goode Performance Group and Levydance. Wendy has been a fashion designer for Planet Five Productions and is currently on staff as head costumer for the Department Of Theater and Dance and Performance Studies at the University Of California at Berkeley.

Dan Sweeney (Set Engineer) has been working in the San Francisco Bay Area as a technical director, scenic designer and scenic constructor for the last 20+ years and is pleased to be engineering and constructing for The Joe Goode Performance Group.