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B.F.A. Theatre Production & Design Alumni

Featured Alumni
Becca Duhaime '07
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Becca Duhaime '07 | Associate Production Manager at La Jolla Playhouse

Mike Wyant '02
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Mike Wyant '02 | Senior Consultant, Fisher Dachs Associates | Previous: Director of Production, Long Wharf Theatre

David L. Arsenault '10
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David L. Arsenault '10 | Scenic Designer at many theatres off-broadway, regionally, and internationally. Associate Scenic Designer for several Broadway productions including THE COLOR PURPLE (2015), HILLARY AND CLINTON (2019), and KING CHARLES III (2015).

Jennifer Fok '13
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Jennifer Fok '13 | Lighting Designer - Long Wharf Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Beth Morrison Projects, Lincoln Center Education, Flint Repertory Theatre, Detroit Public Theatre, The Know Theater Of Cincinnati, New Rep Theatre, Gibney Dance, HERE Arts Center, Portland Stage, The New School For Drama, Bates Dance Festival, NCPA Beijing, Ars Nova, Luna Stage, Theatre At Monmouth.

Johanna Pan ‘13
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Johanna Pan ‘13 | Theatreworks Singapore, (un) becoming, Scenic and Costume Designer, Wild Rice! / Where Are You? (Singapore), Scenic and Costume Designer

E-hui Woo (she/her) '15
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E-hui Woo (she/her) '15 | Independent Lighting Designer in Singapore and DMV area | Singapore: The Theatre Practice, Singapore Repertory Theatre, W!ld Rice, Toy Factory Productions, The Finger Players, The Arts Fission Company | DMV: Arts on the Horizon, Adventure Theatre MTC, Pointless Theatre Company, Nu Sass Productions, Mosaic Theater Company, Ally Theatre Company, 4615 Theatre Company, The Welders, Theatre Prometheus

Jen Caprio '99
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Jen Caprio '99 - Costume Designer | Broadway: Falsettos (2017), The 25th Annual Putnam, County Spelling Bee, Nerds  | Off-Broadway: Little Miss Sunshine | Television: Sesame Street | Won a 2020 Daytime Emmy award for my work on Sesame Street

 

Kara Harmon '05
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Kara Harmon '05 - Costume Designer | Associate Costume Designer for Broadway | Designer for Off-Broadway & Regional Theatres | Asst Costume Designer for Television

 

Sergio Villegas '01
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Sergio Villegas '01 | Scenic Designer: Teatro Milan in Mexico City

Maxwell T. Robbin '14
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Maxwell T. Robbin '14 | Senior Designer/Project Manager @ SJ Lighting, Inc.

Alexander Woodward '09
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Alexander Woodward '09 | Scenic Designer: Williamstown Theatre Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre | Design Assistant: Ming Cho Lee, Santo Loquasto, Alexander Dodge

 

Kathryn Vega '11
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Kathryn Vega '11 | Art Director/Prop Stylist - Clients Include: Sleep No More, The Signature Theater, Bruno Mars, Nike, MTV, Nickelodeon, Beyoncé, The Public Theater, Worlds Away Productions Ltd.

Jillian Marie Walker '09
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Jillian Marie Walker '09 | Standby A1 Broadway: Disney’s Frozen, Come From Away | Sound Mixing Mentor: The Heschel High School

Randy Wong-Westbrooke (they/them) '16
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Randy Wong-Westbrooke (they/them) '16 | Scenic Designer/Production Designer: San Francisco Bay Area. Oregon Shakespeare Festival F.A.I.R. Alumni and 2016 USITT Gateway Mentee. 2024 MFA Candidate UCLA. rwwestbrooke.com

Solomon Weisbard '06
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Solomon Weisbard '06 | Lighting Designer: Portland Playhouse, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Arden Theatre Company | Assistant Lighting Designer:  August Wilson’s Jitney (Broadway)

Aaron Porter '12
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Aaron Porter '12 - Lighting Designer | Off-Broadway & Regional Theatres | Associate Lighting Designer - Broadway: Arthur Miller’s The Price, Waitress, The Cherry Orchard

Tyler Perry '12
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Tyler Perry '12 | Assistant Lighting Designer: Miss Saigon (Broadway 2017), Beautiful  (National Tour), Cinderella (National Tour) | Set Designer: Watch What Happens Live @ Bravocon (Chesapeake Bay Emmy Awards)

Joe DiFonzo '09
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Joe DiFonzo '09 | IATSE Local ONE Stagehand - Hadestown @ Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre, The Metropolitan Opera @ Lincoln Center Theatre

Joanna Staub '94
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Joanna Staub '94 - BS Electronic Music, Sound Design & Audio Engineering | Sound Designer: Goodman Theatre, Seattle REP, Alliance Theatre | Broadway Associate Sound Designer: August: Osage County, The Color Purple, Angels In America, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Eric Mitchell '17
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Eric Mitchell '17 | Animal Handler: Broadway - The Ferryman | Assistant Designer, Electrician, Programmer: Los Angeles, Geffen Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre | Little Voice (Apple TV+, getting released next week) - Animal Coordinator & Trainer

Shivanna Sooknanan '18
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Shivanna Sooknanan '18 - Props fabrication/ Designer: Saks 5th Ave. Disney Frozen | Tiffany and Co. 5th: Holiday Windows 2019 | Hudson Bay and Co.: Holiday Windows 2019 | Bergdorf Goodman: Holiday Windows 2019  | Home Depot: Holiday Windows 2019 | Neiman Marcus: Holiday In store Display 2019 | Assistant Costume Designer: Off Broadway shows | Wardrobe: Julliard School | Costume Designer: Summer stock | Assistant Costume Shop Manager: Summer stock | Scenic Designer: Off Broadway | Assistant Scenic Designer: Summer stock 

Sophie Delaney 20'
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Sophie Delaney 20'  | Spray Finisher at Wayne Towle Master Finishing and Restoration

Daniel Allen ‘18
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Daniel Allen ‘18 | Resident Scenic Designer at Cocoa Village Playhouse (Broadway on Brevard) | Set Designs at FUSE productions, New London Barn Playhouse, TheatreLab, 5th Wall Theater | Off-Broadway and Regional Associate/Assistant designer for Lawrence E. Moten III | Assistant on Off-Broadway and Regional productions for Arnulfo Maldonado, Lee Savage, Meredith Ries, Adam Rigg, Wilson Chin, and Ryan Howell | Assistant/ Associate work seen at 2nd Stage, Long Warf, Signature Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Woolly Mammoth, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theater of DC, New York City Center ENCORES! | Main-stage Lead Scenic at Williamstown Theater Festival 2018, Scenic Artist on “Pips Island” with Infinite Scenic, Over hire Scenic Artist at The Public Theater.

Maxine Etchison '15
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 Maxine Etchison '15 | Key Costumer TV and Film: Black Lightning, The Boys, Doom Patrol, Green Lantern, Stargirl, Superman & Lois, Titans.

Anastasia Pridlides '01
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Anastasia Pridlides '01 | Alexander Technique Teacher

Michelle Roy ‘11
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Michelle Roy ‘11 | I earned my MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduating class of ‘15 and have worked in TV/Film ever since. I am currently the Assistant Costume Designer on season 3 of POSE (FX) and most recently credited as an Assistant Costume Designer on THE BLACKLIST (NBC), THE GOOD FIGHT (CBS), THE AFFAIR (SHOWTIME).

Ashlynne Abraham '15
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Ashlynne Abraham '15 | Be More Chill, Broadway- Daywork, Stitcher, Swing | The Lightning Thief, Broadway- Dresser | Moulin Rouge, Broadway- Stitcher, Daywork, Swing | Company, Broadway- Stitcher, Swing | Mrs. Doubtfire, Broadway- Stitcher

Pesci '99
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pesci '99 | Technical Director/Production Carpenter: NETworks Presentations, http://www.networkstours.com/. Head of Automation: Mat Franco Magic Las Vegas 2015-2021. Production Carpenter: To Kill a Mockingbird 1st National Tour, The Prom 1st National Tour, WAITRESS 1st National Tour, A Bronx Tale 1st National Tour, RENT Broadway Tour, Blue Man Group Tour, Charlie & The Choc. Factory Tour. Head Carpenter Blue Man Group Las Vegas. Lead Carpenter: LOVE Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas. Head Carpenter Phantom of the Opera Tour, Dirty Dancing Tour, RENT Tour, Seussical Tour, My Fair Lady Tour, Fosse Tour, West Side Story Taiwan Tour, Evita Taiwan Tour.

Emilio Zurita '13
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Emilio Zurita '13 | Emilio is currently a set and lighting designer based in Mexico City. 

His most recent projects include editing and designing "Lotería rusa: Chéjov en cachitos" a play based on Chekhov's most famous plays designed to be streamed online. In the last few years he worked on the design for new Mexican plays like "El juego: o la revancha perpetua" by Héctor Flores Komatsu (and adapted from the Mayan creation narrative of The Popol Vuh), "Sueños" by Allan Poumian and "No Ser Sino Parecer" by Sergio Galindo. He also designed an award winning production of "Hello Dolly!" and adapted the design of international productions of the musicals "Young Frankenstein", "Sugar", and "Ghost". 

Emilio is currently working in the set and lighting design of Mexico's premiere production of Paula Vogel's "Indecent" directed by Anya Saffir, the Mexican premiere production of "An Iliad" by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson, and an international co-production of "Algo Pasó", a new play by Thomas Köck that will open in Stuttgart's Kammertheater and produced by Staatstheater Stuttgart.

Emilio is currently teaching Set design and History of set design at CENTRO Universidad in Mexico City and participating in various programs by the Prague Quadrennial and OISTAT through El Colegio Mexicano de Diseño Escénico.

Ken Bruns '02
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Ken Bruns '02 | Sr. Director of Product Management at Lumenpulse Lighting

Thom Upton '11
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Thom Upton '11 | Local 2, Journeyman. Job Lead, Chicago Scenic Studios

Riw Rakkulchon '15
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Riw Rakkulchon '15 | Adjunct Lecture Brooklyn College, Associate Designer: Riccardo Hernandez, Wilson Chin

Dave Chessman '97
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Dave Chessman '97 | Freelance Audio - ChessCo Productions. Working with a variety of Entertainment, Broadcast, Sports and Corporate clients.

Megan Parker '18
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Megan Parker '18 | Scenic & Exhibition Associate Designer, IronBloom Productions - Fiber Artist

Adam Huggard '98
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Adam Huggard '98 | Designing performance spaces and theatrical equipment for new and renovated buildings with Stages Consultants.

Anna Grigo '15
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Anna Grigo '15 | Anna Grigo '15 | Scenic & Costume Designer for theatre, opera, film, and the visual arts. | Scenic Design Assistant: Riccardo Hernandez, Anna Louizos, and Michael Carnahan. | Yale School of Drama '22 MFA Scenic Design Candidate.

Tyler Roach '99
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Tyler Roach '99 | President at Eclipse Creativity Inc. Lighting Designer for live events and television

Jeanne (JJ) Hu '12
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Jeanne (JJ) Hu '12 | Local One Stagehand Props. Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jagged Little Pill, American Buffalo, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Manhattan Theatre Club

Tyler Elich '02
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Tyler Elich '02 | Partner and Principal - Lightswitch. Lighting designer for esports, concerts, corporate events and broadcast.

Ryan McAlpine '07
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Ryan McAlpine '07 | I work for the performer flying company 'Flying by Foy' as a Rigger and Flying Director. I have worked as a Flying Director on touring, Broadway, and international shows such as The Lion King, Billy Elliot, Honeymoon in Vegas, Cats, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. 

Serge Gountas '02
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 Serge Gountas '02 | Current: Head of Automation and Electrics, Showman Fabricators, Previous: Technical Director Williamstown Theatre Festival

Sean Haggerty '12
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Sean Haggerty '12 | Sr. Production Technician, Duke University, Durham NC

Derek Brashears '02
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Derek Brashears '02 | Theatre Educator - Current- Director of Theatre, Resident Designer and Technical Director- The Hotchkiss School. 
Former- Off Broadway Production Manager, Freelance Technician

Paul Gallo '74
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Paul Gallo '74 | Designed the lighting for over 52 Broadway productions. Has had the privilege of working with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Renée Zellweger, Liam Neeson, Paul Rudd, Cynthia Nixon, Laura Linney, Ben Stiller, Victor Garber, Christopher Plummer, Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Taylor. Has 8 Tony nominations, 10 Drama Desk nominations and 2 Obie Awards

Chris Lee '90
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Chris Lee '90 | Chris has lit over 300 shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional Theatre, London’s West End, Tokyo, film, opera, television, cruise ships, theme parks, and Las Vegas spectacles.

Sam Houlihan '22
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Sam Houlihan '22 | 

Broadway Producing Credits:
Producer, Our Town 2024-2025
Co-Producer, Merrily We Roll Along 2023-2024
Co-Producer, Gutenberg! The Musical! 2023-2024

Off-West End Producing Credits:
The Frogs, 2025

Other work:
Former Assistant at Stone Productions on Wicked, Kimberly Akimbo, and TopDog UnderDog
Production Coordinator at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

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