Rick LyonPuppet Conception and Design

Rick created all of the Avenue Q puppets, and originated the roles of Nicky/Trekkie/Bear in the original Broadway cast. Rick’s company, the Lyon Puppets, has constructed the puppets for Avenue Q Off-Broadway, on Broadway, for Las Vegas, London, the first American national tour, Mexico, Brazil and Australia - well over 200 puppets so far. Rick also consulted on and trained puppeteers for

productions of Avenue Q in Sweden, Finland and Mexico. Rick gratefully acknowledges the inspiration and encouragement of the late Jim Henson. Husband to Tonya Dixon, and first-time father to beautiful daughter Kennedy. www.lyonpuppets.com

Anna LouizosSet Designer

Besides the original production of Avenue Q, other Broadway credits include: Curtains, High Fidelity, Golda’s Balcony and Steel Magnolias. She has also designed the stage musical version of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, which has played in numerous US cities and continues to play annually, as well as premiering in the UK. Other designs she has originated are: Altar Boyz, In the

Heights, Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…Boom!, Franz Kafka’s The Castle and Winnie the Pooh and the Perfect Day (international tour including the UK). Some of her regional and Off-Broadway designs include: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Based on a Totally True Story, The Baker’s Wife, Much Ado About Nothing, The Underpants, The Foreigner, Me and My Girl, Beyond Therapy, The Pavilion, Children’s Letters to God and The Butter and Egg Man. Work as an art director includes: the film The Secret Lives of Dentists and HBO’s Sex and the City.

Mirena RadaCostume Designer

Mirena Rada is a versatile costume designer whose work spans theatre, film, circus, dance and special events. After receiving her MFA in Costume Design from New York University (where she subsequently taught), Mirena designed Off- and On-Broadway (including Tony Award-winning Best Musical Avenue Q and Big Apple Circus), earning her a 2004 TDF Young Master Award. Currently living in Los Angeles,

Mirena has been working primarily for Disney, designing for Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland’s California Adventure Park, as well as assisting on the film Enchanted. Besides the West End production of Avenue Q, Mirena designed the costumes for the recent UK tour of SpongeBob SquarePants, the Musical.

Howell BinkleyLighting Designer

Broadway: West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination) and Gypsy, both directed by Arthur Laurents; Guys and Dolls, In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination); Cry Baby, Xanadu, Love Musik, Bridge and Tunnel, Jersey Boys, Steel Magnolias, Avenue Q, Golda’s Balcony, Hollywood Arms, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sacrilege, Taking

Sides, How to Succeed..., High Society and Grease, Landscape of the Body, Sinatra at Radio City, Batboy - The Musical and Radiant Baby.Extensive regional and dance designs include: Parsons Dance (co-founder), the Joffrey Ballet (Billboards) and six musicals in repertory for the Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Celebration; five time Helen Hayes Award recipient; 1993 Laurence Olivier Award and Canadian Dora Award for Kiss of the Spider Woman; 2006 Henry Hewes Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Award-winner for Jersey Boys.

Terry Jardine For AutographSound Designer

Terry Jardine joined Autograph Sound as a designer in 1989 and was appointed Group Managing Director in 2000.Terry’s sound designs for Autograph include: many worldwide productions of Les Misérables, Cats (UK tour, Zurich, Antwerp and the European tour); the Canadian productions of The Music Man, Man of La Mancha and The Pajama Game; The Card in the UK and Moscow and Candide in Copenhagen. He also designed: the Canadian Opera Company production of Béatrice et Bénédict in Toronto; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for the RSC in Stratford and Sadler’s Wells; Follies and On Your Toes at the Royal Festival Hall; Peter Pan and The Pirates of Penzance at the Savoy Theatre and Guys and Dolls UK tour.In the West End he designed: She Loves Me, Romance Romance, Fame, Crazy for You, The Pajama Game, Stepping Out - The Musical, The Secret Garden, Grand Hotel (Donmar); Sinatra and Guys and Dolls for which he received a Olivier Best Sound Design nomination in 2006. He co-designed, with Nick Lidster, the Donmar production of Parade for which they were nominated for 2008 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design; they designed the UK tour of Sinatra; the English National Opera production of Candide; the Old Vic production of Cinderella; Imagine This, New London Theatre; Passion at the Donmar and Lend Me a Tenor in Plymouth. He recently co -designed with Avgoustos Psillas, the UK tour of Spamalot.