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Jorge Arroyo (he/him)
Lighting Designer Boston, MA Jorge is a freelance Lighting Designer based in Boston and New York. His work has been seen at venues such as The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, The Public Theater, The Huntington Avenue Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, La Mama, Weston Playhouse, TheatreSquared and others. He has previously served as the Resident Lighting Designer for Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater, Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, and Luna Stage. He has created designs for over 50 shows at both the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center for artists such as Alicia Keys, Gabriel Iglesias, the Wayans Brothers, the Chieftains, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Paquito D'Rivera, Phoebe Snow, Stanley Jordan, Kenny Garrett, Jackie Mason, and others. He has also worked with choreographer Stacey Tookey, three-time Emmy nominee for her choreography on FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance, on her production of Moments Defined in both New York and California. In 2004 he was selected by Lighting Dimensions Magazine for feature in an article on "designers to watch" and has co-authored the last three versions of the Lightwright manual and tutorial. Jorge received his MFA from New York University and is currently an Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at Boston University and is a member of USA Local 829. www.jorgearroyo.com |
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Marcella Barbeau (she/her)
Lighting Designer; Lighting Supervisor - The Atlanta Opera New York, NY Marcella Barbeau is a New York City based lighting designer. Currently, she serves as the lighting supervisor for The Atlanta Opera. Marcella earned her Masters of Fine Arts at Boston University in lighting design and continues to design across the US. She has had the opportunity to work with designers at The English National Opera, National Theatre Mannheim, National Theatre München, Cincinnati Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, ACT Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Huntington Theatre Company. As a Chinese American designer, Marcella actively seeks to collaborate with and amplify the voices of fellow BIPOC artists of all intersectionalities. www.barbeaudesign.com |
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Valérie Thérèse Bart (she/her)
Costume Designer, Scenic Designer Yonkers, NY Valérie Thérèse Bart is a proud self-proclaimed “Franco-VietnAmericaine.” Born in France to Vietnamese refugee parents, she and her family eventually made their way to the US. Costume, and sometimes scenic, designer for theatre, opera and dabbling a bit in film/TV, she sees this as the perfect way into storytelling—through characters with what they are wearing and why, and the environment they find themselves in. It makes one delve into the psychology and the thought process behind choices. Good designers approach a script as a director and actor would by asking the questions of who/what/when/where/how and why. And it makes complete sense to her that this can combines all of her favorite things: storytelling (comics/RPG books), clothing/expression (fashion design), movement/choreography (dance), mood/theme/score (music). Valérie hopes to create work that is collaborative, open-minded and truly diverse because she comes from multi-ethnic/multi-cultural backgrounds and sees the world as such. It is now more important than ever to have an all-inclusive way of telling stories and dismantle the systems that have created gatekeeping. For so long BIPOC bodies and voices have either been used to advance white supremacy, pigeon-holed and segregated from mainstream, or cast aside and ignored. She firmly believes that the work we do is human representation at its core and if we are all storytellers, then we should do so in a respectable and empathetic manner. She earned her BA from University of California in Los Angeles, her MFA from The Yale School of Drama, is a member of IATSE United Scenic Artists Local 829, as well as Wingspace Theatrical Design. Valérie currently resides in New York with her loving husband Rick, their baby Étienne, and their awesome black cat, HoBart. valeriebart.com |
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Anshuman Bhatia (he/him)
Lighting Designer, Scenic Designer New York, NY Anshuman Bhatia (Scenic and Lighting Design) His design’s for Opera, Theater, and Dance have been seen at Santa Fe Opera, Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, Dublin’s Civic Theater, The McKitrrick Hotel, Soho Rep, The Public, The Atlantic, Arena Stage in Washington D.C., The Park Avenue Armory, Bard Music Festival, WP Theater, The Juilliard School, Madison Opera, Kentucky Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Classic Stage Company, HERE Arts Center, LoftOpera, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Keen Company, Pacific Symphony, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Virginia Arts Festival, Rattlestick Theater, The Sheen Center, Troy’s EMPAC. M.F.A. NYU. www.bhatiadesign.com |
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Rachael N. Blackwell (she/her)
Lighting Designer Hampton, VA BA in Theatre Arts from Alabama State University, MFA from CCM- University of Cincinnati, 2020 recipient of Gilbert Hemsley Lighting Internship and the Judy Dearing Lighting Design Competition (presented by the Black Theatre Network); career aspirations: resident lighting designer of a black internationally touring dance company! bnrlight@gmail.com |
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Amith Chandrashaker (he/him)
Lighting Designer Brooklyn, NY Amith Chandrashaker (Lighting Design); Wives (Playwrights Horizons), A Human Being, Of A Sort (Williamstown), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Boesman and Lena (The Signature), Blue Ridge (The Atlantic), Cardinal (2ST), Twelfth Night (The Public), Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA), Fire in Dreamland (The Public), Her Requiem (LCT3), Time’s Journey… (PlayCo.), [PORTO] (The Bushwick Starr/ The Women’s Project), Seven Spots on the Sun (HH Nom., Rattlestick), Quiet, Comfort (Hoi Polloi). Opera: The Flying Dutchman (Houston Grand Opera), Falstaff (Opera Omaha) The Scarlet Letter (Opera Colorado), Abduction from the Seraglio (Atlanta Opera). Dance: Premieres by Alexander Ekman, Aszure Barton, Kate Weare, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris, Aalto Ballettt Theatre Essen, Staatstheater Nürnberg, The National Dance Company of Wales, and The Royal New Zealand Ballet. 2019 Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Award Winner. www.amithld.com |
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Wilson Chin (he/him)
Scenic Designer New York, NY I have designed sets for Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company (Dora Award winner), Wolftrap Opera, Central City Opera and Avery Fisher Hall. I have also designed extensively on and off Broadway for plays and musicals. www.wilsonchin.com |
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Sara Ryung Clement (she/her)
Costume Designer, Scenic Designer Los Angeles, CA Off-Broadway: Somebody's Daughter (Second Stage Uptown); Fruiting Bodies (Ma-Yi Theatre). Regional credits include the Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Folger Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Mixed Blood, TheatreWorks, Center Stage Baltimore, Boston Court, Perseverance Theatre, East West Players, Cornerstone Theater Company, A Noise Within, Yale Repertory Theatre, and others. Set design faculty at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and is a recipient of the Donald and Zorca Oenslager Fellowship in Design. MFA, Yale School of Drama; AB Princeton University. sararyungclement.com |
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Ari Fulton (she/her)
Costume Designer New York, NY “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical”, Miami New Drama, Miami FL “Nigerian Prince” Netflix, Lagos, Nigeria “Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical” George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ “Pipeline” Indiana Rep. Annapolis, Indiana “Skeleton Crew” The Huntington Theater, Boston, MA www.arifulton.com |
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Kara Harmon (she/her)
Costume Designer Brooklyn, NY Kara Harmon is a Costume Designer based out of New York City. Off Broadway credits include: Dot (Vineyard Theatre) and Lockdown (Rattlestick). Select Regional credits include: Eclipsed (Milwaukee Rep), Steel Magnolias and Guys and Dolls (Guthrie Theatre), The Wiz! Helen Hayes Costume Design Award (Ford’s Theatre), The Purists, The Niceties and A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington Theatre), Nina Simone: Four Women (Arena Stage), The Color Purple (Portland Center Stage), Barbecue: NAACP Outstanding Costume Design Award (Geffen Playhouse), Much Ado and The Comedy of Errors (OSF), The Rape of Lucretia (Wolftrap) and world premieres: Goodnight, Tyler and Angry…Gorgeous (Alliance Theatre). Her assistant costume design credits for television include "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon), “Daredevil” (Netflix) and “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO). Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.KaraHarmonDesign.com |
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Jessica Jahn (she/her)
Costume Designer Brooklyn, NY A graduate of Rutgers University, with degrees in both Dance and Psychology, Jessica Jahn danced professionally in NYC before beginning a career in design. She has had the opportunity to work with directors such as Tommy Kail, Francesca Zambello, and Diane Paulus, as well as writers/composers Charles Fuller, Norah Ephron, and Tracy K. Smith. Jessica collaborated on one of the earliest performances of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER, directed by Tina Landau. She designed BLUE, written by Tazewell Thompson and composed by Jeanine Tesori, winner of the MCANA Award for Best New Opera, and worked with Jessica Blank, Eric Jensen and Steve Earle on The Public’s premiere of COAL COUNTRY. She was awarded both the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk for her design of Charles Busch’s THE CONFESSION OF LILY DARE. Currently, she is a member of the steering committees of Opera America’s WON (Women’s Opera Network) and ALAANA Opera Network (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American), and also serves as the advisor to the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Task Force at the Glimmerglass Festival. Jessica is also an Adjunct Costume Design Professor with Brandeis University’s Theatre Arts Dept. www.jessicajahn.com |
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Hahnji Jang (their/theirs; she/her)
Costume Designer New York, New York Korean American Costume Designer and Activist. I focus on ethical and sustainable costume design with a conscious effort to direct spending towards businesses of color. My background ranges from large Broadway musicals to new and translated plays. hahnjijang.com |
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Takeshi Kata (he/him)
Scenic Designer Los Angeles, CA Takeshi Kata is a theatrical set designer based in Los Angeles, CA. He has designed over 200 theatrical productions including plays, musicals, opera and dance. Recent Projects include Derren Brown: Secret (Broadway), Billy Budd (Central City Opera), Bug (Steppenwolf), Angels in America (Berkeley Rep), Office Hour (Public Theatre), Man From Nebraska (Second Stage), Cambodian Rock Band, Until the Flood and Quixote Nuevo in many theatres across the U.S. Takeshi has won an Obie award and has been nominated for Drama Desk, Ovation, San Francisco Critics Circle, TBA and Barrymore awards. He is an Associate Professor at University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts. https://takeshi-kata.squarespace.com |
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Hana S. Kim (she/her)
Projection Designer, Scenic Designer Los Angeles, CA Hana Kim is an award winning projection and set designer with experiences in film and graphic design. Her design works have been seen across the country including Public Theater in NY, A.C.T in SF, SF Symphony, LA Opera, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Opera Colorado and South Coast Rep. Video Art installations have been shown at the Annenberg Space of Photography in LA and Baryshnikov Arts Center in NY. She is a recipient of Princess Grace Award in Theater Design, Richard Sherwood Awards from CTG, Kinetic Lighting Award for distinguished achievement in theatrical design from LA Drama Critics Circle, and a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Her designs won Helen Hayes Award, Stage Raw Awards, StageSceneLA Awards and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards. Her designs also received multiple nominations from Ovation Awards and Theater Bay Area Awards. Recent projects include Magdalene at Prototype NY, Sweet Land with the Industry Opera in LA, Emerging Voices Concert with Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and On the Other Side with Marike Splint. www.hananow.com |
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Phil Kong (he/him)
Lighting Designer, Projection Designer, Scenic Designer, Creative Direction, Live Streaming, Lighting Programming, Project Management - Kong Design Inc. New York, NY I am a Chinese American lighting designer, scenic designer, video designer, lighting programmer, and creative director for live entertainment and live events. I am currently based in Hamburg, Germany and work throughout the US and Europe. Selected Works: Lighting designer: The Album Leaf - 2019 In A Safe Place Tour (Production Design) Letters from Zora (Pasadena Playhouse); Lotte Das Musical (world premiere, Wetzlarer Festspiele); Is It Real? (world premiere, Hamburger Bahnhof - Production Design); Love and Information (Main Street Theatre); Shakespeare in Love, A New Brain, Men on Boats, The Woman in Black, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, Failure: a Love Story, Jerusalem, Next to Normal (Cape Rep Theatre); Iyom (The Workshop Theater); Value Systems, Pop Rocks (LA Contemporary Dance Company); Prague Shakespeare Company; Deutsches Schauspielhaus; Hamburger Sprechwerk; Opera Stabile. Associate/assistant lighting designer: Cambodian Rock Band, Kinky Boots, Rocky Das Musical (world premiere, Hamburg); Peter and the Starcatcher (second national tour); The Geffen Playhouse; Pasadena Playhouse; Mark Taper Forum; Baltimore Center Stage; La Jolla Playhouse; The Public Theater; Playwrights Horizons; McCarter Theatre Center. Events: The Onion, National CineMedia, NFL Legends. Associate lighting designer: Disney's D23, Google's Project Air. Other: Associate designer: Outside Lands and Bonnaroo music festivals; Tomorrowland Stage, Golden Fairytale Fanfare (Shanghai Disney Resort); The Album Leaf, Between Waves tour. Art director: Khalid, Teen Choice Awards 2018; Foster the People, Sacred Hearts Club tour. kongdesigninc.com |
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Junghyun Georgia Lee (she/her)
Costume Designer, Scenic Designer New York, NY Junghyun Georgia Lee is Korean born, New York based scenic and costume designer. Currently designing for theaters across the US, her works are focused on new work developments and designs for performances on stage and various spaces. Member of USA 829 and New Neighborhood. junghyungeorgialeedesign.com |
Photo credit: Emma Pratte
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Mimi Lien (she/her)
Scenic Designer Brooklyn, NY Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera based in New York City. Arriving at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. In 2017, Mimi won the Tony Award for her design of Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812. In 2015, she was named a MacArthur Fellow, and is the first stage designer ever to achieve this distinction. Mimi is a co-founder of JACK, a performance/art space in Brooklyn. Selected work includes Die Zauberflöte (Staatsoper Berlin), Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway), Taylor Mac’s A 24 Decade History of Popular Music (St. Ann’s Warehouse & international tour), and Black Mountain Songs (BAM). Her theatre designs have been presented at Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, Soho Rep, The Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Berkeley Rep, A.R.T., Mark Taper Forum, Wilma Theater, Longwharf Theatre, Goodman Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Alliance Theatre, Playmakers Rep, and Virginia Opera, among others. She is the recipient of the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity at Lincoln Center Theater, a Bessie Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award, LA Drama Critics Circle Award, and an OBIE Award for sustained excellence. Mimi received a B.A. in Architecture from Yale University (1997) and an M.F.A. in Stage Design from New York University (2003). www.mimilien.com |
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Jason Lynch (he/him)
Lighting Designer, Technical/Production Administrator Chicago, Illinois Jason Lynch is a Chicago-based lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, and other live performance art. He is also the recipient of the 2019 Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award which recognizes emerging theatrical designers within the Chicago area and is honored to have his recent work on an immersive 360° production of THE WILD PARTY at the Denver Center featured in American Theatre Magazine. Credits include: FANNIE (upcoming), SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY, LOTTERY DAY, HOW TO CATCH CREATION (asst.) and AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (asst.) (Goodman Theatre); CHOIR BOY (upcoming), GUARDS AT THE TAJ (assoc.) (Steppenwolf); HAIRSPRAY, BLACK ODYSSEY (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); FEEDING BEATRICE (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, A DOLL’S HOUSE, THE WILD PARTY, DRAG ON (Denver Center); CLUE (upcoming), SKELETON CREW (Alley Theatre); WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN (upcoming), FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN (Dallas Theater Center). Jason is a proud member of The Association of Lighting Designers and alumnus of The Santa Fe Opera. @jasonlynch.design www.jasondlynch.com |
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Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams (she/her)
Scenic Designer New York, NY Mikiko's design work has been seen Off Broadway at the Primary Stages, Working Theater, Epic Theater Ensemble, INTAR Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the National Asian American Theatre Company. Within the US regional theatres at Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage, Barkley Repertory Theatre, the Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Playmakers Repertory Company, ACT Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Public Theatre’s Under the Raider Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Cornerstone Theater Company, Boston Lyric Opera among others. In Japan her work has been seen at the Umeda Arts Theatre, Nissay Theatre, Nissay Opera, Nikikai Opera, Suntory Hall, Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall and Biwako Hall. She also designed recent US National Tour of Dirty Dancing and a new Kungfu musical Dragon Spring, Phoenix Rise at the Shed. As an associate scenic designer, her credits includes, Broadway: My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, The Bridges of Madison County, Golden Boy, That Championship Season, Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Next Fall, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. National tour: The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bridges of Madison County, The Light in the Piazza and Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific. Westend: South Pacific, The King and I, and upcoming My Fair Lady. US, UK and World tour: The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, Bridges of Madison County, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, and My Fair Lady. Broadway credits: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/mikiko-suzuki-macadams-483614 https://www.mikikosmacadams.com |
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Arnulfo Maldonado (he/him)
Costume Designer, Scenic Designer New York, NY Arnulfo Maldonado is a New York City based set and costume designer. Arnulfo is a recipient of a Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award and a multiple Henry Hewes Design nominee. He recently received the 2020 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Set Design, as well as a Special Citation Obie as part of the Creative Team of the Pulitzer Prize winning A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson. Notable design credits include the aforementioned world premiere of Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons), as well as: Clare Barron's Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls, Or; The African Mean Girls Play (MCC Theater), Jaclyn Backhaus' Men On Boats (Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons), and Donja R. Love’s Sugar In Our Wounds (Manhattan Theater Club, Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Scenic Design recipient). In addition he has also designed the New York premieres of Christopher Chen's Caught (The Play Company)/Passage (Soho Rep) and George Brant's Grounded (Page 73). U.S. premieres include Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck (Woolly Mammoth/Public Theater) and debbie tucker green's generations (Soho Rep). Arnulfo designed the regional premieres of Paula Vogel's Indecent (Guthrie Theater), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon (Berkeley Rep), and Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton (Philadelphia Theatre Company). In 2017 he designed the international world tour for The Magnetic Fields in support of their album 50 Song Memoir. www.arnulfomaldonado.com |
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Sherrice Mojgani (she/her)
Lighting Designer Manassas, VA Sherrice Mojgani is a Washington D.C. based theatrical lighting designer. She has designed for Arena Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, and San Diego Repertory Theatre. In 2019 Mrs. Mojgani’s design for Into the Woods at Barrington Stage won a Berkshire Theatre Critics Circle Award . Mrs. Mojgani is a member of United Scenic Artist 829 . Mrs. Mojgani is an assistant professor in the School of Theatre at George Mason University. Originally from Orange County California, Mrs Mojgani holds a BA in Theatre Arts from UC Santa Cruz, and an MFA in Lighting Design from UC San Diego. smojgani.com |
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Harry Nadal (he/him)
Costume Designer New York, NY Harry Nadal is a NYC based Costume Designer, originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. In early 2020 he designed costumes for the world premier of Freedom Ride at Chicago Opera Theater, and was featured in the February 2020 issue of Opera News Magazine. His work has been seen in Lincoln Center Institute, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Atlantic Theater Co., PRTT/Pregones, Arena Stage (Washington DC), UrbanArias (Arlington, VA.), Baltimore Center Stage and TheaterWorks (Hartford), among others. Notable collaborations with significant directors and choreographers, have shaped and defined a career spanning more than twenty years. Harry holds an MFA from Tisch/NYU. http://www.harrynadal.com |
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Nikia Nelson (she/her)
Costume Designer New York, NY I am a freelance stylist, costume designer & fashion / photo editor. I am capable working with a various budgets & am versatile in styling, costume design & wardrobe for film, television, editorials, commercials, industrials & theater. I have an extensive knowledge of different periods of costume & art direction as well as film, fashion, photography & art. Specialties: Styling, Design, wardrobe, fIlm & television production, fashion & costume history, Photo Production. I can work locally in the NYC & Philadelphia metropolitan regions. NikiaNelson.com IMDB: www.imdb.com/name/nm1182042/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikia-nelson-1948ba4/ |
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Tom Ontiveros (he/him)
Lighting Designer, Projection Designer Mt. Baldy, CA Tom Ontiveros (Lighting & Visual Design) designs with light and projection for live performance. He consistently contributes to productions affecting themes of social justice, diversity, and equity for underrepresented communities. He has received numerous awards and nominations for his work in Los Angeles, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Credits include designs at Phoenix Symphony, Bass Symphony Hall, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Native Voices, East West Players, Denver Center, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Magic Theatre and the La Jolla Playhouse. His work has also been presented at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hungarian National Theatre, Phoenix Symphony, Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center, and L.A. Opera. Tom’s lighting and projection design for Pure Native was scheduled to be presented at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian but postponed due to COVID 19. Awards include Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Ovation! nomination), The Exonerated (Lucille Lortel & Drama Desk Awards), My Barking Dog (L.A. Drama Critics Choice Award) The House in Scarsdale (L.A. Drama Critics Choice Award nomination), Shiv (Best Projection, StageRaw Awards nomination), Completeness (Ovation! nomination). Tom earned his MFA in Design from UC San Diego and he has held positions as Assistant Professor of Design at Chico State University and the University of Southern California. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Design at the University of La Verne. https://cargocollective.com/tomontiveros |
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Tanya Orellana (she/her)
Scenic Designer Los Angeles, CA Tanya Orellana designs performance spaces for Theatre and Opera. Originally from San Francisco, she has been a core member of the award winning ensemble Campo Santo since 2008, participating in their intimate new work process, conceptualizing and designing sets alongside the writing process. Her collaborations includes The Industry’s Sweet Land, a world premiere opera, directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger. The world premiere of The Heath, by Lauren Gunderson directed by Sean Daniels at Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Lowell, MA), the Mexican premiere of Angels in America directed by Martín Acosta at Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (Mexico City), Native Gardens, directed by Rebecca Rivas at TheatreSquared (Arkansas), SAPO by Culture Clash at The Getty Villa, Casa de Spirits directed by Roger Guenveur Smith at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum (San Francisco, CA). Tanya received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts (2017) and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. Her work on Angels in America was presented in the US Emerging Designers Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial 2019. She is an organizing member La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Design Network. www.tanyaorellana.com |
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Adam Rigg (their/theirs)
Costume Designer, Scenic Designer New York, NY Porous Enigmatic Organic Universal Flexible Change on a dime adaptability Activated emptiness imagination Open and vast Allow for distance between singers greek Prescent Adam Rigg is a New York based set and costume designer. Adam is a Princess Grace Award winner, a two time American Theater Wing Henry Hewes Design Award nominee, a Connecticut Critics Circle Award nominee, and a multiple Ovation Award nominee. The were a recipient of the Donald Oenslager Fellowship in 2012 and the Pierre Cardin Fellowship in 2015. Credits include recent and upcoming credits include LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Philadelphia, Norwegian National, Kennedy Center, Opera Omaha, Prototype Festival/Beth Morrison Projects, Theater An Der Wien, Cincinnati Symphony, and Teatro Municipal, Brazil. Adam has been a resident Artist with their performance collective, I Am A Boys Choir, at the Public Theater (Devised Theater Working Group) and Mabou Mines. BA University of California; Los Angeles. MFA Yale School of Drama. adamriggdesign.com |
Photo credit: Carey MacArthur
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Ashley Soliman (she/her)
Costume Designer, Visual Artist, Illustrator, Graphic Designer Astoria/Queens, NY Ashley Soliman is a visual artist, costume designer, and sometimes pastry person. Drawing upon a variety of sources to create expressive imagery and objects, her creative practices are anchored by the language of color and the physical manifestation of inner worlds. She considers collaboration and interdisciplinary cross pollination essential to her artistic process. Ashley's keen eye and versatile skills enable her to make the most out of whatever resources she has. She enjoys the world and character building that comes with designing for theatrical and operatic works. She looks forward to whatever the next project may bring, whether it be repertory, avant garde, or something else entirely! A first generation Chinese American, Ashley was born and raised in Chino Hills, California. She resides in Astoria with one husband and two cats. www.terribleboogie.com |
Photo credit: Maria Baranova-Suzuki
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Carlos J. Soto (he/him)
Costume Designer, Scenic Designer, Stage Director Bronx, NY Carlos Soto is a director, designer and performer based in New York City. Associate direction and design: Solange’s Nothing to Prove / Nothing to Say (Venice Biennial); Witness! (Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg / Sydney Opera House); When I Get Home (film and concert tour); Metatronia (Metatron’s Cube), Hammer Museum, LA; Scales (Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX). Sets and/or Costumes: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, director Zack Winokur (Santa Fe Opera); The Black Clown with Davóne Tines, directed by Zack Winokur (ART, Mostly Mozart Festival); Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) by director Bryce Dessner, librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle, director Kaneza Schaal, Roomful of Teeth (BAM, Holland Festival, Kennedy Center, UMS).The Mile-Long Opera, by Anne Carson, Claudia Rankine, David Lang, Ragnar Kjartarsson, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. With Robert Wilson (as designer and performer): Adam’s Passion, Der Messias (Salzburg Festival), Einstein on the Beach, Garrincha, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, and Oedipus Rex. Upcoming: Perle Noire, Julia Bullock, Claudia Rankine, Tyshawn Sorey, director Peter Sellars (Théâtre du Châtelet) and a new work by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer. epicnothing.org |
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Thaddeus Strassberger (he/him)
Scenic Designer, Stage Director New York, NY Thaddeus Strassberger is a native of Oklahoma and a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He earned a degree in Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City; he received a Fulbright Fellowship to complete the Corso di Specializzazione per Scenografi Realizzatori at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 2001. His German studies at the Goethe Institut were funded in part by Amerinda. In 2005, he won the European Opera Prize which helped launch his career in abroad. Since the he has created over 65 new productions in the USA, Europe, Russia and China, which have been seen at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Theater an der Wien, Bolshoi Theater, NCPA Beijing, Den Norske Opera, Danish National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Opera Ireland, LA Opera, Washington National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Bard Summerscape New York, Ekaterinburg State Opera, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Augsburg, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, L’Opera de Montreal, and many others. www.tstrassberger.com www.instagram.com/tstrassberger |
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Saawan Tiwari (their/theirs, he/him)
Costume Designer New York, NY Saawan Tiwari is a young costume designer currently based in New York City having recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Theatre Design and Production. Previous projects include Yerma, Bare the Pop Opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, Wolves, and Shel: the Historically Fictionalized Musical. Saawan has also assisted on many productions, including La Boheme, West Side Story, Alcina, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. saawandesigns.wixsite.com/home |
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Danielle Louise Truss (their/theirs, she/her)
Costume Designer, Wardrobe, Costume Shop Manager Grand Rapids, Michigan I studied Tailoring, Fashion and Textiles in my hometown of London and have worked in Ballet since moving to America 6 years ago, I have worked mainly as a Costume Designer in Ballet under Annabelle Ochoa-Lopez's choreography (Dangerous Liaisons (Grand Rapids Ballet), Shibuya Blues (Tulsa Ballet) Linea Recta (Ballet Hispanico), Vendetta (Les Grands Ballets des Canadiens), Little Prince & Bonzi (BalletX) as well as designing pieces for Dani Rowe, Penny Saunders and Edward Liang. I worked as Shop Manager for Grand Rapids Ballet for 2 seasons and have worked Wardrobe on all the shows during this time. |
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Alejo Vietti (he/him)
Costume Designer New York, NY Alejo Vietti is a proud Argentine that immigrated to the U.S. 22 years ago. Alejo has designed costumes for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Donesk Opera (Ukraine), and Santa Barbara Opera. Has also designed in New York for companies including Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Radio City Rockettes, NYC Center Encores!, Atlantic Theatre Company, Primary Stages, The Irish Rep, MCC, and Ensemble Studio Theatre among others. Has extensively worked on Broadway, Off Broadway and regionally. Some of his NY credits include Beautiful, The Carole King Musical - also national tour, West End (Olivier Award nomination), and Australia, Japan and UK tours - Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, Allegiance (Drama Desk nomination), Smokey Joe’s Café, and Evita to name a few. Other credits include works for Colorado Ballet and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Regionally, Alejo has designed shows for The Alley Theatre (over 25 productions), Goodspeed Musicals, the Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and The Old Globe. He is the recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejo-vietti-847b516/ |
Photo credit: Jeffrey Lee
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Christina Watanabe (she/her)
Lighting Designer New York, NY Christina is an award-winning New York City based designer for theatre, dance, music, and events. Recent: Where We Stand (WP Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Virginia Stage Company), As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Marie Antoinette (Brown/Trinity Rep), pathetic (Minor Theatre), The Wild Party (Post Theatre Company), Peer Gynt (Barnard), Heartbreak House (Gingold Theatrical Group), A Christmas Carol (FL Rep), Into the Woods (Charlottesville Opera), The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Weir, Fireflies, and Private Lives (White Heron Theatre Company), Scissoring (INTAR), Glory (Muhlenberg), Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Fairy Queen (Hofstra), Small World: a fantasia (59E59), Neighbors: A Fair Trade Agreement (INTAR), Daniel’s Husband (Primary Stages/Cherry Lane), I Will Look Forward To This Later (New Ohio). TV: Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State (CNN). Academia: NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (The Tempest, Macbeth, Violet) and Yale Dramatic Association (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Other design work includes cabaret, events, and Ralph Lauren’s Madison Avenue windows. Touring dance and music nationally and internationally. Lincoln Center Festival (2013, 2015-2017). Visiting Professor: NYU Tisch, University of Central Oklahoma. Guest speaker: The League of Professional Theatre Women “A Discussion: Designers and Directors”. USITT Gateway Mentor. MFA: NYU Tisch. Member USA 829. www.StarryEyedLighting.com |
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Sarah JHP Watkins (she/her)
Scenic Designer Chicago, IL Sarah is a freelance scenic designer and educator based in Chicago, IL. She has worked on over 200 productions varying from children's theatre, new works, devised theatre, musicals and operas. Her design work has been recognized regionally by the American College Theatre Festival Region III, nationally by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and internationally at the Prague Quadrennial exhibition held in the Czech Republic. Her photography work has been exhibited in New York City. www.sarah-jhp-watkins.com |
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Brandi White (she/her)
Wardrobe & Assistant Costume Designer St. Louis, MO I am a recent grad of The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, where I majored in Costume Construction, but my passions have led me to Wardrobe & Assistant Costume Designing. I have worked Wardrobe with several St. Louis Theatre’s such as Repertory Theatre St. Louis, The Muny, COCA, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. I’ve only been an Assistant Costume Designer once for a Webster Conservatory’s production of The Little Prince, but I wish to gain more Assistant Costume Design opportunities to work with other Costume Designers. https://brandijene.wixsite.com/brandiwhite |
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David Wright (he/him)
Sound Designer, Composer - Orisha Tales Repertory Radio Theatre Company New York, NY David D. Wright (SOUND DESIGNER ), is a nine time "VIV" AUDELCO Award winner for Excellence in Sound Design with one for Musical Direction. He is a multiple award winner of radio and film as well. David. takes this opportunity to thank Olodumare, Gbogbo Egun and Gbogbo Orisa for his success. |
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Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew (she/her)
Lighting Designer, Projection Designer, Puppetry, Devised work and collaboration New York, NY I am an award-winning lighting and projection designer for theatre, dance, opera, musical and music performances, installations and now digital performances. I aim to create a visual environment that is organically integrated into the landscape and language of the production. Furthermore, I have extensive experience working on new, original and ensemble productions. NY Times described them as “clever” and “inventive”. Of all the genres I have designed for, I really enjoy the challenges in designing for operas. Jennifer Tipton said, “lighting is music for the eyes” which I wholeheartedly agree particularly with opera where there is true interdependency between words, music and voice, and visuals in storytelling. Recent operas: White Snake Projects’ Alice in the Pandemic (digital premiere), The Industry’s Sweet Land (premiere and immersive), Kamala Sankaram’s Thumbprint (world premiere), HK Gruber's Gloria - A Pig Tale with Alan Gilbert and Doug Fitch, Schubert’s Fierrabras with Leon Botstein, Gotham Opera’s Orientale, Jonathan Dawe’s Cosi fan tutti, Peter Winkler’s Fox Fables with Rhoda Levine, Tarik O’Regan’s The Wanton Sublime and David Cote’s The Companion (both semi-stage premiere), Aaron Siegel’s Brother Brother (world premiere), Handel’s Alcina with Pocket Opera NY, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Isabel Milenski. Aside from designing, I am also a puppetry artist who have originated, designed, and directed contemporary puppetry performances. Most recent is Matthew Welch’s And Here We Are which is composed as shadow puppet opera. Puppetry is a holistic art form which really informs and speaks to my approach as both an artist and a designer. jeanetteyew.com vimeo.com/showcase/jeanetteyew |
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Yi Zhao (he/him)
Lighting Designer Berlin, Germany I am a China-born, France-raised, U.S.-educated lighting designer. I am currently based in Berlin, Germany, and work primarily in the U.S. and Europe, across opera, theater, music, and dance. Informed by a rigorous background in art photography and a passion for music, I often think of lighting design as four-dimensional composition: sculptural, pictorial, and musical at the same time; an all-encompassing vehicle for a communal event. My work is grounded in dramaturgy and driven by the occasion; it encompasses a wide range of forms and aesthetics developed through enduring collaborations. yi-zhao.com |
