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Jonathan Bixby, Designer

NY Stage: Urinetown, Street Corner Symphony (Broadway); Hello Dolly! 1995 Broadway Revival; Strike up The Band (City Center, Encores!); The Country Club (2000 Drama Desk Nomination), The Torch- Bearers, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, As Bees in Honey Drown, June Moon, Kingdom of Earth; As Thousands Cheer, "hope" is the thing with feathers (Drama Dept.); The Cocoanuts (American Place Theater); Sheba (The Jewish Rep.); Advice From A Caterpillar (Lucille Lortel); The Skin or Our Teeth, Man is Man, The Three Sisters, Galileo, Life is a Dream and The Importance of being Earnest (both at Jean Cocteau Repertory).

Regional: Rhinoceros (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), Merton of the Movies (Geffen Playhouse); Lives of the Saints (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Sayonara (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award); The Illusion, Light Up The Sky (Merrimack Rep.); June Moon (McCarter Theater); Man of LaMancha and Oklahoma! (Birmingham Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire and Caucasian Chalk Circle (Bloomsberg Theatre Ensemble). U.S. Tours: Cirque Ingenieux; The Sound of Music; Brigadoon; The Wiz; Evita; My Fair Lady; Jesus Christ Superstar; West Side Story; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. International Productions: Tango Passion (Munich and Europe); The King and I (West End, USA, Japan); Hello, Dolly (Paris Premiere).

Film: Angel Passing (Sundance Festival), Eventual Wife. TV: "One Life To Live"; "All My Children" (1990 Emmy Award). Jonathan is a founding member of Drama Dept.

Jonathan Bixby, 41, passed away on Sunday April 29, 2001 from complications from colon cancer. A founding member of Drama Dept., Jonathan designed costumes for eight of our first eleven productions. He created many of these designs with his colleague, Greg Gale, who will continue the business they started 15 years ago. Jonathan's work with us went far beyond his creations for our stage; his contributions will always be a part of who we are, what we do and, most importantly, how we work.

Before his death, Jonathan stressed the importance to all people of having a colonoscopy. He asked that the public encourage insurance companies to reform their policy on colonoscopies. They must be mandatory at the age of 35 instead of 50. Colon cancer has become epidemic most in men and women between the ages of 34 and 44.

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