Recent Off-Broadway credits include: Futurity for Soho Rep and Ars Nova, Good Person of Szechwan at The Public Theater, The Tempest for The Public Theater at the Delacorte, and As You Like It for The Acting Company at The New Victory and Lincoln Center. Regionally, Matt has designed at Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Spoleto Festival, Arden Theatre Company, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Matt is a long-time collaborator with Blanka Zizka and The Wilma Theater. Recent design work at the Wilma includes Romeo and Juliet, Kill Move Paradise, Pasage, Adapt!, Constellations, When The Rain Stops Falling, The Christians, An Octoroon, The Hard Problem, Hamlet, and Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq. Matt holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. He is a 2014 Pew Fellow in the Arts, as well as 2015 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Matt is the Associate Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-Winning theatre company, New Paradise Laboratories; and Assistant Professor of Design in the Department of Theater at Swarthmore College. mattsaunders.net. mattsaunders.net
Dance Nation
by Clare Barron
Directed by Margot Bordelon
Meet the Artists
Cast
Taysha Marie Canales •
Sofia
Kimberly Chatterjee •
Connie
Keith J. Conallen •
Dance Teacher Pat
Kimberly S. Fairbanks •
Maeve
Suli Holum •
Ashlee
Justin Jain •
Luke
Campbell O Hare •
Amina
Brett Ashley Robinson •
Zuzu
Julianna Zinkel •
Vanessa/The Moms
Production Team
Clare Barron •
playwright
Margot Bordelon •
director
Matt Saunders •
Set Designer
Maria Shaplin •
Lighting Designer
Amanda Gladu •
Costume Designer
Elizabeth Atkinson •
Sound Designer
Eli Lynn •
Intimacy Choreographer + Fight Choreographer
Patreshettarlini Adams •
Resident Stage Manager