Gail Stewart Beach, costume designer
Gail Stewart Beach, costume designer, received an MFA in design from the University of Hawaii in 1977, after which she returned to Baltimore to work with the Maryland Ballet Company, then later as a freelance costume designer in the dance community. She designed for Washington Ballet, Dance Kaleidoscope, Ballet West (Phoenix, Arizona), the Folger Shakespeare Library, and a variety of the area's modern dance choreographers. She has been the resident costume designer for Catholic University's Hartke Theatre for 15 years and regularly designs for the UMBC Dance department, Phoenix Dance Company, and Doug Hamby Dance.

Steve Bradley, media artist
Steve Bradley is a media artist who since 1998 has been curating art@radio, a net.radio broadcast of sound art and experimental music. Bradley explores the boundaries of urban and suburbia culture through collecting debris, sound and image from the consumed and littered landscape. In June 2000, he exhibited Radio Trans-vestige in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and maintains a collaborative web site, artgarbage.com and active member of NOMADS, nomadnet.org. He is an assistant professor in visual arts at the UMBC where he teaches foundations, digital media and sound in the visual arts department.

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Catherine Eliot, lighting designer
Catherine Eliot, MA, CMA, is a lighting designer for dance in the D.C. metropolitan area. She is also a movement therapist and dance teacher.

Tony Farquhar, mechanical engineer
Tony Farquhar, head of the team that developed dancing robot Maurice Tombé, is assistant professor of mechnical engineering at UMBC. He is interested in the mechanics of living and life-like structures. Farquhar began his engineering career as an industrial designer of precision mechanisms and medical devices. He is currently supervising three undergraduate students working on the dance project in support of his research on unconventional robot manipulators for underground tunneling and humanitarian de-mining. Farquhar is also supervising several students working with him to study the mechanical effects of wind on living wheat plants; this is aimed at helping wheat breeders increase the productivity of the world's top food crop.

Tom Goldstein, percussionist
Tom Goldstein is head of the percussion department at UMBC. As a New York City freelance percussionist for over 20 years, Goldstein performed extensively with symphony orchestras, chamber groups, Broadway shows, and in nightclubs. Especially active in contemporary music, he has performed dozens of solo and chamber works, many of which were written expressly for him. He also has published articles in Percussive Notes Magazine. Goldstein has recorded on Vanguard, Polydor, Opus One, O.O. Discs, CD Tech, Capstone and CRI.

Deborah Gorski, video artist
Deborah Gorski, video artist, holds a BS in mass communications with a concentration in film from Towson University. She is a graduate assistant and master of fine arts candidate in imaging and digital arts at UMBC's Department of Visual Arts.

Timothy Nohe, artist
Timothy Nohe is an artist engaging traditional and electronic media in public life and public places. His recent work has been realized in site-specific sound and video installations, scores for dance and performance, Internet publications, and hypertext poetry. Nohe serves as a board member, designer, and composer for Fluid Movement, a Baltimore-based performance art group that juxtaposes complex subject matter with delightful and unexpected mediums. Nohe is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at UMBC, and has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the University of California San Diego.

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Scott Pender, composer
Scott Pender holds degrees in philosophy from Georgetown University of music composition from Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Jean Eichelberger Ivey. In 1985, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in the United Kingdom with Gavin Bryars. He is the recipient of a 1991 Grants-in-Aid Individual Fellowship in Music Composition from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In addition to a MacDowell Colony residency, he has received honors from ASCAP, BMI, the Southeastern Composer's League, the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and others. He has been active as a composer and performer in the Washington-Baltimore area for the past ten years.

Elena Zlotescu, designer
Elena Zlotescu is an Associate Artist of The Maryland Stage Company, where she has designed sets and/or costumes for twelve MSC productions, and has been a member of the UMBC Theatre faculty since 1984. A native of Romania, Ms. Zlotescu, designed costumes and sets for the National Theatre I.L., Caragiale in Bucharest and other theatres throughout the country, before emigrating to the United States. Ms. Zlotescu taught costume design and stage make-up at George Mason University, and designed sets and costumes for several productions at Catholic University. She has been honored with several national awards for outstanding set and costume design from the American College Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has designed sets, costumes, and/or make-up for over 120 professional and university productions. She has an M.F.A. in set and costume design from the Institute of Fine Arts Nicolae Grigorescu in Bucharest, Romania.