Lisa Choules--costume design

Ms. Choules began her career at Ballet West where she spent five years performing a variety of ballets from classical to contemporary.  Her principal roles include the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and Odette in Act II of Swan Lake.  Ms. Choules' other affiliations include L.A. Classical Ballet, Utah Ballet, Utah Regional Ballet and Kansas City Ballet.  Some of her favorite roles include Emily Dickinson in The Chariot, the Sylph in La Sylphide Pas de Deux, All the Way from Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, Mary Wigman's Hexentanz and Alonzo King’s Handel Trio. But her favorite role is being the mother to her daughters, Hannah and Zoe.  Ms. Choules is an accomplished costume designer, and has designed and executed costumes for the Kansas City Ballet and Quixotic Performance Fusion.

Nate Fors--costume and set design

While primarily a painter, Fors has entertained a great variety of media, from drawing and painting to public sculpture, installation, digital prints and video.  Reinvention and materials are critical to his methods.  Fors is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Charlotte Street Fund Award, an Avenue of the Arts Foundation Award and a Missouri Visual Artists Biennial Fellowship.  He has shown extensively in the Kansas City area as well as in Los Angeles and New York.  His solo exhibition venues include the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.  Art in America, in their Annual 2001-2002 Guide, cited his Avenue of the Arts installation, toss, as one of the 23 best public art installations in the United States during the year 2000.  In May 2004 Fors completed and installed lllooppi, a permanent outdoor sculpture commissioned by the city of Leawood, Kansas.  His paintings are in the collections of the the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kemper Museum of Art and the Spencer Museum at the University of Kansas as well as numerous corporate and private collections.

Charles Stonewall--photography

Charles Stonewall was born in Easton,Pennsylvania. Following high school graduation, Stonewall enrolled in the Antonelli School of Professional Photography in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He developed and expanded his skills through practical employment as well as through special projects and exhibitions over the succeeding years. Then, stepping out in faith, Charles moved to Kansas City, Missouri to pursue further opportunities, return to school and obtain his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute, and begin planning a new phase of artistic expression that included theatre, dance and social justice themes. He is a 2008 M.A. Candidate in Studio Art at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.  His thesis presentation will be on Thursday, April 10, 5-8p.m. at the Gallery of Art, which is located in the Fine Arts Building on the UMKC campus at 5015 Holmes, Kansas City, MO.

Mica Thomas--lighting design

Mica Thomas attended the Masters program in Lighting Design at Penn State University and received his BFA in Theater from Southern Oregon University. Mica first came to Kansas City in 2004 to Design lights for the Kansas City Ballet’s summer show series in Crested Butte, Colorado. He did the same in 2005 and has since moved to Kansas City. While in Kansas City Mica’s credits include: working on the Kansas City Ballet’s Spring and Fall productions in 2006, Designing the Lighting for the 2006 Priests of Palace Ball, put on by the Jackson County Historical Society, Mica designed the lights for the Quixotic's production of Elemantra in 2006, and has also worked on numerous other projects in the KC area.