Rebeca Garro: A Place of Power for Silenced Voices.
Skene Staff
Mexican artistic director Rebeca Garro reflects on theatre as a
PROFILES.
Performance is made by people whose names you may not know yet. PROFILES is built on the belief that those names matter: that the scenic designer, the choreographer, the emerging director working in a city you have never visited is part of the same global conversation as the artists who fill the marquees. These profiles span disciplines, generations, and continents. Below, you will find them organized into Threads: curated conversations assembled by our editors and by the featured artists themselves, each one asking what these artists, together, make visible. The connections between artists are as revealing as the artists alone. All of them have something worth hearing.
Mexican artistic director Rebeca Garro reflects on theatre as a
Scenic designer Seth Howard discusses immersive environments, collaboration, and taking
Edella Oroz Westerfield brings imagination, cultural reflection, and vibrant detail
Martín Acuña blends creative strategy and storytelling as a performing arts marketer and host of the Broadway podcast Backstage Talk.
Editorial team
There is a particular energy to work made at the beginning of a practice. Before the reputation, before the career settles into its recognizable shape, there is just the work itself: unguarded, searching, and often more honest for it. The artists gathered here are at that moment. Pay attention.
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This conversation brings together artists whose work centers movement as a primary mode of expression, composition, and thought. These profiles reflect a deep attention to the body as a site of meaning, where motion carries memory, intention, and connection across dance and performance.
This conversation brings together artists whose work engages memory, identity, and inherited cultural narratives. These profiles examine how personal and collective histories shape creative practice across performance and design.
Kendall Bas is a Filipino scenographer whose work on La
Meet emerging lighting designer Alex J. Alegría, whose journey from
Scenic designer Dahlia Al-Habieli shares her global journey, design philosophy,
Brazilian costume designer Angelica Martins transforms fabric into poetry, blending circus artistry with heartfelt storytelling.
Feghali’s approach to art is both rigorous and intuitive. He sees creativity as a craft to be sharpened, a process rooted in
This conversation brings together artists whose work operates at the intersection of performance, form, and technology. These profiles explore how digital tools, systems, and processes reshape artistic language without displacing human intent.
Composer Jaimie Pangan on discipline, indie storytelling, and creating music that connects emotionally across film and games.
Heymechanic! reflects on technology, human motion, and digital memory in a revealing Skene interview exploring performance and design.
Lighting designer Zach Young fuses tech and storytelling in dance-driven works like Levitations, activated by choreographer Alyssa Johnson.
Projection designer Camilla Tassi fuses music, tech, and story to create immersive, collaborative performance design.
A conversation bringing together actors, directors and artists whose work touches the audicence. These profiles reflect a deep attention to the spoken word, and the body with, intention, and connection across performance.
Lighting and scenic designer Patricia Gutiérrez Arriaga on theatre, spirituality, minimalism, and
Sound designer Calin Topa explores immersive audio, memory, and space across theater,
Scenographer Sonia Flores blends sacred geometry, research, and sincerity to craft immersive,
Explore Anthony Sertel Dean’s immersive sound worlds—where play, protest, and deep connection
Costume artist Valentina Muñoz blends theatre, art, and playful innovation—crafting bold designs
Haydee Zelideth reflects on storytelling, design, and the power of live theater
Scenographer
Before an actor speaks, before the audience settles, before the first scene begins, the world of a production already exists. It exists in the quality of light falling across a surface, in the texture of a costume against a body, in the sound that fills a space before anyone has said a word. The designers gathered here work in that territory: the sensory architecture of performance, the decisions that shape how a production feels before it is understood.
Costume, lighting, sound. Three disciplines in constant conversation, each operating through different materials and different languages, all engaged in the same fundamental act: creating an experience rather than simply designing it. The choices they make are felt before they are analyzed, absorbed before they are named. The audience may not notice. But all of it is shaping what they carry with them when they leave.
Editorial team
What does it mean to make something together? The artists gathered here all work across the boundaries of their disciplines, finding that the most interesting creative decisions happen not in isolation but in exchange. These profiles trace the contours of collaboration as a sustained practice: designers who build worlds with directors, performers who reshape the work through their presence, makers whose process depends entirely on the people around them. Some of these collaborations are formal. Others are philosophical. All of them suggest that the work of performance is never made by one person alone, and that the most honest thing any artist can say is who they made it with.
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Scenic designer Clarisse Monde transforms discarded materials into striking visual worlds—shaped by identity, care, and sustainability.
Nia Safarr Banks is a costume designer whose work translates character and inner life
Lighting designer Richard Bryant explores the balance between grace and power, empathy and light,
Camille Deering blends emotion, research, and resilience to design costumes that tell deeper, more
PROFILES appear within curated editorial conversations and rotate over time. Not all published PROFILES are featured. PROFILES are commissioned or invited as part of Skene’s editorial program.
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