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Alex J. Alegria: Seeking New BIPoC Voices and Plays

Meet emerging lighting designer Alex J. Alegría, whose journey from backstage to bold storytelling is one to watch...

Alyssa Dillard: Showing Up in Sound and Stillness

Artist Alyssa Dillard builds intimate, imaginative works through sound, story, and stillness across theatre, performance, and installation...

From the Tonys to the Protests: Ovation to Outrage.

What this year’s Tony Awards couldn’t show you: the growing gap between Broadway celebration and national protest...

Elba Emicente Sánchez: Through Light and Heritage.

Meet Elba Emicente Sánchez, a rising Mexican lighting designer using culture and collaboration to shape bold, cross-border stage stories...

Jamie Shriner: A Voice for the Joyfully Awkward

Musical comedian Jamie Shriner turns awkward youth into bold, hilarious storytelling that redefines joy, queerness, and comedy itself...

Emilio Torres Morales: A Sound Yet Unheard.

Composer Emilio Torres Morales turns hidden emotion into sound, asking bold questions through music that challenges and connects...

Alex Rockey: Weaving Queer Identity and Joy.

Designer Alex Rockey blends queer identity, scenic and costume storytelling to craft joyful, emotional worlds on and off the stage...

Sol Kellan: The Savage Poetry of Flowers.

Costume designer Sol Kellan blends memory, myth, and fantasy in wearable art—from Día de Muertos parades to intimate acts of personal transformation...

Mexico at WSD2025: National Design with Global Impact.

Mexico’s designers lead at World Stage Design 2025 with bold, poetic work exploring identity, ecology, and memory on a global stage...

Mahatma Ordaz: Where Theatre and Nature Meet.

Explore the creative journey of Mahatma Ordaz, a Mexican scenographer and theatre researcher, and her inspiring approach to design and lighting...

Dahlia Al-Habieli: Collaboration as a First Language

Scenic designer Dahlia Al-Habieli shares her global journey, design philosophy, and how teaching shaped her creative process and impact...

Body, Full of Time: The Sacred in the Synthetic. 

Explore how Body, Full of Time fused dance, digital media, and scenic design to explore humanity in a tech-driven world. Designed by Estefanía Pérez-Vera...

Matthew Smith: From Margins to Masterpieces.

Matthew Smith shares his journey from doodling in class to becoming a rising costume designer shaping theatre with style and skill...

Maranda DeBusk: The Art of Collaborative Transformation.

Lighting and media designer Maranda DeBusk redefines stagecraft through curiosity, collaboration, and community—spotlighting connection and transformation...

Unlimited Time: A Reflection on Design and Creative Return.

A reflection on designing The Last Five Years and how revisiting art intertwines past, present, and future in the theatre-making process...

Outraged Hearts Reclaims Tennessee Williams with a Women-Centered Lens

A bold reimagining of Tennessee Williams’ early works by The Fire Weeds, centering women and emotional truth. Only through May 30!..

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