Shea Messinger (Technical Director) is a designer, builder and storyteller. They graduated from Bennington College in Vermont, where they produced and designed a puppet adaptation of WATERSHIP DOWN, and wrote and designed WHEN THE SUN FALLS. Since coming to Chicago they have designed and built sets for Windy City Performs’ SHREK: THE MUSICAL, Quest theatre ensemble’s I LOVE YOU’RE PERFECT NOW CHANGE and Theatre Evolve’s TWELFTH NIGHT, painted Rivendell’s ALIAS GRACE and Fleetwood-Jordain’s CROWNS, technical directed several shows at Windy City Performs, and Piven’s A HOME ON THE LAKE. More than anything, they believe in the power of stories.