Tisch Design for Stage & Film

Enjoy this great photo of Rachel Myers (incoming faculty member in Film Design), award winning costume designer and alumnus Mark Bridges and members of the class of 2023: Mona Mekkawi, Zoe Allen, Lindsey Eifert and Ryan Marsh at Design Showcase West at UCLA. We are so glad you had a great time!

Congratulations to costume designer and recent graduate, Celeste Jenngings '23, for being selected as a 2023/2024 season 2050 Artistic Fellow by the New York Theatre Workshop! Find out more here: https://tisch.nyu.edu/design/news/nytw2050

Design Show 2023 opens today! Come see these designers' incredible work in person starting at 2pm EST. Congratulations Class of 2023! We couldn't be prouder!

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Class of 2023 spotlight: today we feature Marissa Todd!

Marissa is a multidisciplinary designer based in New York City. With roots grounded in design for stage and live performance, Marissa mixes the mediums of stage and film to provide a visual dialogue in support of the actors and director's vision. Each process includes deep exploration into materials that create an environment, this in turn allows for a rumination of truth and authenticity stunningly unique to each collaboration. www.marissatodd.com

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today we feature Mona Mekkawi

Mona Mekkawi is an Egyptian production designer and filmmaker currently based in New York City. Her work has gained recognition internationally, being featured in renowned film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival. Notably, one of Mona's recent documentaries, "Oversight," which she designed, received three Emmy Awards, solidifying her position as one of the first Egyptian women to achieve such recognition. Mona's passion lies in creating immersive and authentic worlds for her stories, drawing inspiration from her diverse cultural background and personal experiences. She has a keen interest in merging history with the future, exploring themes of time, progress, and societal evolution. Additionally, Mona has a deep appreciation for the power of storytelling in exploring the complexities of the human condition and highlighting universal experiences that connect people across different backgrounds and locations.
www.monamekkawi.com

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today we feature Amanda Roberge

Amanda Roberge is a New York based costume designer. Originally from North Carolina, she spent much of her younger years exploring barefoot in the woods. Therefore, Amanda finds great joy in infusing her work with inspiration from nature and delights in sharing her secondarily passion for gardening with anyone who will talk with her about plants. Amanda originally came to theater by way of performance and draws from her on-stage background to highlight and transform the human body. She loves working with actors to create characters and is most energized when she is collaborating with fellow artists in pursuit of telling the story.
amandaroberge.com

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today
we feature Natasha Marie Rotondaro

Natasha Marie Rotondaro is a Canadian Lighting Designer based out of New York City and Toronto. She uses light to build worlds and tell stories within them. She loves collaborating, and aims to explore light through theatre, dance, or other art forms where light can sculpt space. Natasha is excited to continue working in New York City post-graduation, and hopes to find herself working internationally throughout the course of her career. 

natasharotondaro.com

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today
we feature Taylor Friel! (HAPPPY BIRTHDAY) 🍰

Taylor is a scenic designer originally from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Growing up in the spectacle and theatricality of Sin City instilled in Taylor an adoration for scenically rich environments, as well as a constant craving for storytelling. She is interested in interrogating femininity and the human condition through our relationship to horror cinema and the experience of growing up in the anonymity of online spaces. The deeply personal nature of the design process is something Taylor holds close to her heart, as she strives to offer a piece of her soul to each project, creating a collage of the self throughout her work.

Outside of scenic design, Taylor loves photography, her little gray cat Alvin, and is looking forward to starting an herb and flower garden.

Taylorfrieldesign.com

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today
we feature Kristen Paige!

Kristen Paige is a lighting designer, daydreamer, abstract painter, and contemporary performance maker living and working in NYC. She’s been making up stories for as long as she can remember, hungry to escape into a fantasy of the everyday world. Her work hopes to create authentic environments that explore the relationship of light, texture, transportation, and moving bodies.
Kristen graduated from Muhlenberg College with a B.A. in Theater; a liberal arts program that allowed her to learn a little bit about a lot of things. She is a previous Resident Lighting Designer for the Second Avenue Dance Company and has designed dance pieces at the West End Theatre and New York Live Arts.
The best kinds of stories envelop you in a world of their own.
www.kristenpaige.work

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Class of 2023 spotlight: today we feature Nicolas Hen!

Nicolas is a production designer born in France and raised in the United States. He is interested in all things film and art. He loves the classics, enjoys painting and drawing, and spends his spare time in nature. He does this because he likes beauty and emotion and wants to help create these.


www.nicolashen.me

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today we feature Celeste Jennings

Celeste Jennings is a costume designer and playwright. Her dream projects evoke the past, present, and future and remind Black women that they are loved, that they’re soft, powerful, capable of resting, deserving of liberation, and that they are everything- that they always have been. Most recently, her play ‘Bov Water was produced at Northern Stage, and she developed her play, Contentious Woman, with PlayCo. Selected work includes Citrus (produced at Northern Stage), and Processing. Lately she collaborated with JAG in a designer workshop for Urinetown and worked as an assistant designer on The Notebook. She’s grateful to her community of friends, family, and mentors for encouraging and uplifting her work and is grateful for the journey ahead of learning and growing as a human being and artist. https://www.celestejenndesigns.com/

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Josh Oberlander is a designer and artist, focusing on theater, opera, and dance. Originally from Georgia, he's been involved in the theater since the third grade, and theatrical artifice, performance, and storytelling have been his main ways of mediating between the world and himself since. As a q***r artist, he's especially interested in how identity is formed and then destabilized at the intersection of inherited narratives, performativity and class warfare. He believes theater today should exist somewhere between journalism and philosophy: it is through intellectual, ethical, emotional and poetic rigor that theater can affect meaningful change. He holds a B.A. in Theater Studies and English and Creative Writing from Emory University in Atlanta.
joshoberlander.com

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today we feature Garvin Hastings

Garvin Hastings is a Costume Designer from Nashville, Tennessee, who's based in New York City. Holding a B.F.A. from Syracuse University in Costume Design with a Minor in Medieval and Renaissance History, Garvin has spent the last three years at NYU Tisch, in pursuit of telling deeper, visual stories. They like to embrace any chance to incorporate their love for all things historical into their designs, and explore new ways to interpret and be inspired by the past.

Garvin feels most fulfilled during team collaboration with other creative minds, specifically, engaging with stories and storytellers. Outside of design, they enjoy exploring New York, listening to audio books, and reading history.

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today we feature Ryan Marsh!

Ryan Marsh is a lighting and sound designer based in New York City. With a passion for collaboration, Ryan thrives in the creative process of working with other designers, musicians, and performers to create unforgettable experiences for audiences. One of Ryan's defining traits as a designer is his use of call and response in his work. He understands the importance of responding to the various design disciplines, the music, and the action taking place on stage. At the same time, Ryan loves when he can incorporate bold design choices that are not only impactful to the audience, but also cleverly propel stories forward.

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Class of 2023 Spotlight: Today we feature Siena Zoë Allen

Siena Zoë Allen is a New York City based costume designer whose work is centered around reinvention and adaptation. She is most fulfilled carving out new lives for stories both classic and obscure, and reimagining them in worlds seductive and consequential. Themes common in her work are dreaming, memory, and future: spaces unique to all that can be designed uniquely every time. With an investment in sustainable practice, she believes design is born out of what you see and how you make it. Zoë is one of this year's Princess Grace Award Winners () and recipient of the Pierre Cardin Theater Honor.
www.sienazoeallen.com

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As we count down to the opening of Design Show 2023, we are thrilled to introduce you to each member of the Class of 2023. Keep your eye out, as every day we will spotlight one of the incredible set, costume, lighting and film designers! Visit the link in our bio for more information.

Alumni Preview: Friday, May 12th
Design Show Opening: Saturday, May 13th

Design Department Chair, Justin Townsend and faculty members Susan Hilferty and Allen Lee Hughes celebrate the opening of NYU's African Grove Theatre, at the John A. Paulson Center at 181 Mercer Street. Link in bio for more info.

The has named Tisch Design as one of the top 10 Costume Design Schools in the country! Read the full article at the link in our bio.

Congratulations to Design Department alumni Reza Behjat, Stacey Derosier, Marsha Ginsberg, Qween Jean, David Bengali, Cha See, Kimie Nishikawa and Rodrigo Munoz on winning Obie Awards for their outstanding work!

Our third year film designers visiting set with production designer Curt Beech!

We’re celebrating our Third Year Production of QUEENS, written by Martyna Majok and directed by Tea Alagić

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Sound Design by Fitz Patton

Happy opening to the cast and crew of Airline Highway written by Lisa D'Amour and directed by Pamela Berlin.

Set Design by: Colleen Murray '22
Costume Design by: Sienne Zoë Allen
Lighting Design by: Kristen Paige