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P I 717.5996494

E I alexrockey@gmail.com 

W I alexrockeydesign.com

Alex Rockey (he/him) is a Scenic and Costume Designer born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is a queer designer who loves being in the room and having the ability to work collaboratively as the Scenic Designer, Costume Designer, both, Assistant, Associate, etc. etc. He has worked on Musicals, Operas, Plays, and more. Some credits include "...but you could've held my hand" (UT Austin, Scenic Design), "Proving Up" (Butler Opera Center, Scenic Design), Assisting and Costume Designing for "Fall for Dance" (UT Austin), being a Stitcher at Maine State Music Theatre, a Scenery Apprentice at The Santa Fe Opera, and is going back to the opera this summer as a Costume Administrative Apprentice. He relishes in making theatre an escape and a place to heal, grow, and experience. His thesis is on SB12 and performance as protest. For this, he produced, hosted, and designed a sold-out Drag Show protest on UT campus.

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P I 814.852.9258

E I andrebrandao.arq@gmail.com

W I brandaoandre.com

André Brandão de Castro, a Brazilian architect and set designer, is currently a third-year M.F.A. candidate in Scenic Design at Penn State University. He earned his BArch degree from FUMEC University in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2014. At Penn State, he received the Manfull Award for outstanding academic achievement and designed two main stage shows for the School of Theatre season: 'Cabaret' and 'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.' With extensive experience in cultural, residential, and commercial architecture, André has honed his skills as a versatile designer, having created captivating scenic environments for various artistic disciplines, including dance, exhibitions, and urban interventions.

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P I 812.205.6062

E I austinkscenic@gmail.com

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Austin Kuhn is a scenic designer who hails from Southern Indiana. After receiving their BS in Theatre Studies at the University of Evansville, they went on to study scenic design at the University of Connecticut, and will receive their MFA in 2024. Through this rigorous training, Austin has crafted a design process centered on understanding two key questions: “why this play?” and “why now?” 

Austin’s passion for model making and the power of storytelling extends beyond their work and into their love of tabletop roleplaying games. What started as a passing interest grew into a hobby that fuels their creativity.

Their design credits include The Wolves, Violet, Everybody, Metamorphoses, and War of the Worlds 2023: A Servant of Two Networks. After their time serving as a scenic artist at UConn, they will be returning to the Cape Playhouse for their second summer as a scenic artist for its 2024 season.

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P I 323.404.0707

E I pitt.benny@gmail.com

W I bennypitt.com

Benny Pitt is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist who creates spaces that facilitate unexpected, layered, and thought-provoking storytelling. With a background in directing, he believes that generous, rigorous collaboration is the key to creating meaningful and memorable work. Benny is drawn to the immediate, artificial nature of live performance, he seeks to make spaces that exploit theatricality.  

As a designer, he has worked at The Tank, CalArts, Movement Research, Dixon Place, Playwrights Downtown, NYU Tisch, Hunter College, and on commercial projects for Absolut Vodka and Stanley Steemer. As an assistant, he has worked with Chris Barreca, Frank Oliva, Efren Delgadillo Jr., Deb O, and Ásta Bennie Hostetter. 

Benny holds an MFA in Experience Design and Production from CalArts and a BFA in Theatre from NYU Tisch.

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P I 516.317.5554

E I brianbernhard3@gmail.com

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Brian Bernhard is a set designer and theater artist from Long Island, NY. From bold reimaginings of classics, to visualizing conceptions of new works, Brian brings his unique flair for dramaturgy, research, and storytelling into all he does. Using his backgrounds in theatrical performance and mechanical engineering to drive his design work, he focuses heavily on a design’s function—both practically, and dramatically. Analyzing the world through the philosophies of Clowning and Queerness, Brian seeks to tackle big questions by discovering the intimate and honest questions at their cores, and working through their answers on stage with a spirit of curiosity, generosity, humor, and enthusiasm. 

Selected Credits: The House of Blue Leaves (NYU Grad Acting); Suicide Forest (Assoc. Set Designer, Ma Yi & Bushwick Starr); Eureka Day (Props Design, Colt Coeur)

Education: MFA, Design for Stage and Film, NYU Tisch; BA, Theatre Arts, BE, Mechanical engineering, SUNY Stony Brook University

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P I 310.801.5580

E I janehamor@gmail.com

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Jane Hamor is originally from Los Angeles and recently received an MFA in Scenic Design with a specialization in Integrated Media from CalArts. As a trained dancer, Jane brings her knowledge of choreography and movement into her designs to create kinetic spaces that fuse the audience, performer, and architecture into an amalgamated experience. Jane enjoys designing for various performance mediums; including theater, film, dance, and site-specific installation. Select credits include: UCSB School of Dance, CalArts Dance, Theater, and Music schools, The Loft Ensemble, Heidi Duckler Dance Festival, Hypernormalization, and USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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P I 646.243.5175

E I junranshidesign@gmail.com

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Junran “Charlotte” Shi (she/her) is a set and production designer based in New York. With the background of Architecture, she is using space, structure and materials as powerful tools for storytelling on stage. Themes commonly seen in her works are nature, humanity and culture. M.F.A. NYU Tisch, Design for Stage and Film.

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P I 408.616.0462

E I mk.michellejoo@gmail.com

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Michelle Minkuing Joo is a scenic and production designer born in Korea and raised in Shanghai and California. With a strong sense of how environments shape identity, Michelle weaves together diverse perspectives to craft compelling narratives.

Michelle is currently completing an MFA in entertainment design at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of the 2023 Cecile B. DeMille grant in Production Design. Michelle’s most recent art department credits include Hulu’s Into the Dark seasons 1 & 2, and Amazon’s Welcome to Blumhouse series. Her short films have been selected at festivals such as Stage 32, LA Film Festival, and Slamdance DIG. In addition to her design credits, Michelle is a skilled 3d artist, working seamlessly between Maya, Rhino and Unreal Engine.

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P I 832.515.6544

E I peyton5656@gmail.com

W I peytontavares.com

Peyton Tavares is an artist located in Boston Massachusetts. She is currently working towards her MFA in Scenic Design, at Boston University. She achieved her BA in Theatre Arts with a double concentration in Scenic Design and Directing from Marymount Manhattan College.  

Peyton is very passionate about creating art that reflects who she is as a person and highlighting voices that are not always showcased. Peyton’s work has primarily been focused on creating space for women to safely tell their stories and trying to build a better community for underrepresented voices to be heard. She has a passion for new works and plays currently in development!

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P I 510.439.8820

E I wongwestdesigns@gmail.com

W I wongwestdesigns.com

Randy Wong-Westbrooke (they/them) is an award-nominated scenic designer originally from Berkeley, California. Driven by their mixed-Chinese, trans, and non-binary identities, they seek opportunities to work with diverse creative teams to tell radical, provocative, and intersectional stories that question and celebrate our collective histories. They have designed sets for Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire Theater, Ferocious Lotus, American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. Program, TheatreFIRST, SF Playhouse’s Sandbox, New Conservatory Theater Company, as well as many other new and independent projects. Their additional credits include production designer for the short film The Truer History of the Chan Family, music videos for Oakland-based music group Tune-Yards, and they have designed installations and murals for the lobbies of the Lighthouse Immersive Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition across the country. They have been part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival's F.A.I.R. Program and a mentee in the USITT Gateway Program. B.F.A. Ithaca College. M.F.A. UCLA. wongwestdesigns.com

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P I 518.488.8020

E I rhmishler@gmail.com

W I raphaelmishler.com

Raphael Mishler (he/him) creates visuals for live performance and has designed scenery for Winterworks, Dixon Place, ANTfest, HERE Arts Center, Amerinda, The Fires (upcoming Soho Rep), Is It Thursday Yet? (assoc.), Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce (assoc.) 24 Decade History of Popular Music (tour assoc.) and numerous shows at UCSD and NYU. Puppet design credits include The Amateurs (Vineyard), Collective Rage…(MCC), and Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes nom). Raphael previously worked as a props designer for new plays where highlights included the world premieres of What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway), 24 Decade…(Pomegranate Arts, St. Ann’s Warehouse and International tour), Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Pipeline (Lincoln Center), The Box (The Foundry) and Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb). He is a founding member of Brooklyn-based cultural organizing hub Building Stories, and is an affiliate artist with Clubbed Thumb.

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P I 321.230.4707

E I stephenmcyr@gmail.com

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Stephen M. Cyr is a designer, technologist, and storyteller. Currently interested in finding the ritual in theatrical projects, and theatre that mediates daily life. An avid researcher and excavator of liminal space, creating work that exists in the in-between, Stephen runs towards stories that question the nature of reality, are full of empathy, and conjure a feeling of being alive with surprising little moments of transformation and magic. And musicals.

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P I 603.867.4212

E I joycezhuosihe@gmail.com

W I joycehedesign.com

Zhuosi (Joyce) He is a Chinese set and production designer currently based in New York. Joyce obtained her BA in Film Studies and Architectural Studies from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA in set design at NYU Tisch. Her set design works span both contemporary and classical text in theater, opera and dance, and her production design works premier at film festivals around the world. She loves exploring the connection between characters and their environment, and how interaction of human bodies within the theatrical space unveil the emotional truth of the text. Selected theater credits include: The Moors (NYU Grad Acting); Two Takes: The Peony Pavilion (LMCC @ Frederick Loewe Theatre); The Walt Whitmans of Fort Greene Park (American Opera Project); En Domstol/En Anderson (NYU Grad Acting); Northbound Train (Columbia University). Selected film credits include: False Start, Terminal, Bedtime Story (NYU Grad Film).

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E I info@marianneauvinetgould.com

W I marianneauvinetgould​​.com

Marianne Auvinet Gould is a half English, half French production designer from south east London. Prior to moving to NYC to pursue her MFA she worked as a designer for films and events in the UK for 5 years. Films that she has designed have been featured on the BBC, The Guardian, Nowness and Dazed Digital. She has worked with commercial clients such as COS, Corteiz and Salomon.

Career highlights so far have included designing Tina Pasotra’s BAFTA Cymru nominated short ‘I Choose’ and Dorothy Allen-Pickard’s documentary short ‘Material Bodies’ which won ‘Best Artist Film’ at the My Hero IFF and ‘Best Short’ at the Reel to Real IFF, alongside screening at 27 film festivals worldwide. She has also worked in the art department on shows such as Prime’s ‘10 Percent’ & Apple TV’s ‘Bad Sisters’. 

Awards & Affiliations: 2022 BAFTA Newcomer, BAFTA Connect Member, 2024 ‘Craft Award in Production Design’, First Run Festival.

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P I 934.414.1088

E I vgg2016@nyu.edu

W I Coming Soon

Vinita Gatne is an artist, researcher and designer who is interested in creating spaces that traverse anecdotal and ephemeral stories which are otherwise disregarded in conventional recording practices.

Vinita studied architecture in Mumbai which steered her to work with communities focusing on impacts of capitalism and climate change on agriculture and fisheries. In 2016, she was awarded collaborative seed funding from the Wellcome Trust which explores the relationship between medicine and community lead charitable organizations in colonial Bombay. Alongside her research practice, Vinita works with installation art in an attempt to break away from linear storytelling practices.

Vinita received an MA degree from Dutch Art Institute where she developed her thesis that brings forth knowledges performed by emancipatory subaltern feminist groups by the way of protest songs and speeches in India.

Some of the films she has worked on include ‘Micro Resistances’ by Marwa Arsanios & ‘One Emerging From A Point of View’ by Wu Tsang.

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P I  404.451.8293

E I jheanellec@outlook.com

W I jchristasiacreations.myportfolio.com/

Hailing from the vibrant intersection of Jamaican, Cuban, and American cultures, Jheanelle Miller proudly identifies as a multidisciplinary visual storyteller. Regardless of the medium—be it designing, writing, or capturing moments through a camera lens—her work is imbued with the unbridled spirit of imagination, each piece a testament to her innate storytelling prowess. With a solid foundation in architecture, having earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Miami, she now embarks on an ambitious journey towards establishing herself as a production designer and writer. Her aim is to craft narratives that transcend borders and cultures, leaving an indelible mark on the cinematic landscape. In her creative pursuit, she is driven not only by personal passion but also by a profound desire to represent her culture authentically and to be a beacon of inspiration for other young Black women aspiring to make their mark in the creative realm.