NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers
2007-2009 Recipients
Camille Assaf is a costume and scenic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent work includes Don Giovanni, at the Théâtre Municipal de Castres (France), Moving Theater's It's my party, at the Greenwich Music festival, and A number at Theaterworks (Hartford, CT). She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Jessica Ford is a freelance costume and scenic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent costume designs include A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare and Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts and The Underpants at Two River Theatre Company (Redbank, NJ). Recent scenic design includes The Santaland Diaries at the Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven, CT). Ms. Ford graduated from Yale School of Drama in 2004.
Irina Kruzhilina is a bi-coastal costume designer for theatre, opera and film whose work has been seen internationally. Currently she is working with Mabou Mines on their new production Song for New York. Her recent projects include: Don Juan in Prague for the National Theatre of Czech Republic and the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Offenbach at the Fisher Center at Bard; Merchant of Venice at Milwaukee Shakespeare Company; Sideways stories for Westside School for the New Acting Theatre Company in NYC. Ms. Kruzhilina is a resident designer of Filament Theatre Company and also designs for fashion and music video.
Mimi Lien is a New York-based scenic designer for theatre, dance, and opera. Her work has been seen in New York at The Joyce Theatre, The Flea Theater, and Dance Theatre Workshop, and at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. Recent designs include The Bald Soprano at the Shakespeare Theater of NJ, The Life of Galileo at the Wilma Theater, Carmina Burana at the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Love Unpunished with Pig Iron Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA). She is the winner of the 2005 Barrymore Award for "Outstanding Set Design." Ms. Lien received her MFA from New York University, and BA in Architecture from Yale University.
Anka Lupes is a scenic and costume designer based in New York, NY. Recent design credits include Barber of Seville at the Bristol Old Vic, U.K.; multi-media opera Dear Land/Zolle for the International Contemporary Ensemble ; A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival ; costumes for Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company in NYC. Currently, she is designing Fashion 47 for the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis; Another Country by James Baldwin, in N.Y. ; and the jazz opera Mr. Mystery, The return of Sun Ra on Planet Earth, to be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in February 2008. Ms. Lupes is a graduate of NYC's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was awarded the Dean's Fellowship 2000-2003.
Jamie McElhinney is New York-based sound and video designer. His work has been heard at the HERE Arts Center, New York Theater Workshop, The Ontological Hysteric, PS122, St. Ann's Warehouse, and the Culture Project in NYC. He has recently done designs with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Banana Bag and Bodice, and is a founding member of the group of performing visual artists called TENT. He mixes at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola inside Jazz @ Lincoln Center in New York City, was the head of audio for the inaugural season of the RECAT theater inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and was the Technical Manger for the international tour of Super Vision by the Builder's Association. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
David Newell is a New York-based scenic and costume designer for theatre and opera. He recently collaborated on the development of the playminor godsat Lincoln Center Theater's Directors Lab and designed sets and costumes for the play's premiere at the Summer Play Festival (New York, NY).Other recent set designs include;La Clemenza di Titofor Opera Boston,All This Intimacy for Second Stage Theatre (New York, NY) and the double bill of La Portrait de Manon/La Voix Humainefor Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY. Mr. Newell is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch Schoolof the Arts.