Design and Production Showcase
Class of 2026
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2026
Lúa Azancot Garcia She / Her
Lúa Azancot García is a scenic designer born in Madrid, Spain who moved to Miami and then Boston in her later life. She will graduate from Emerson College in Summer of 2026, with a BFA in Theater Design/ Technology concentrating in Scenic design and some costume design. In addition, she gained experience with scenic construction while working at the scenic shop during her time at Emerson.
For Inquiries please email: luaazancot@gmail.com
Some of her credits include Emerson stage credits: Edward Tulane (Asst. Scenic Designer). Limber (Asst. Props Lead) Julius Caesar (Props Lead). When Death Crashes A Dinner Party (Scenic Designer).
Emerson College Credits: Overbridge High and the club for aspiring magicians with a flair for the Dramatic (Scenic Designer -Bluejay), Thanksgiving play (Scenic Designer), Release me (Production designer) Other: How to make friends and kill them (Scenic Designer - BCA).
For more updates and designs please follow @the.art.gremlin
Zee Cowan They/He Zee Cowan is a draper and wardrobe supervisor from Dublin, Ohio and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, set to graduate from Emerson College in fall of 2026. Zee has draped and first-handed for Emerson Stage and various other student organizations such as Rareworks, emShakes, and MTS. Specializing in working with fantasy garments using fabrics like polyester chiffon to bring the renderings for dance pieces to life using paper patterning, draping on mannequins, and digital draping softwares like CLO-3d.
Nüwa in Fairyland
Head Over Heels
Zee has built for Anna Ten Eyck for several shows, such as Emerson Stage’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and emShakes’ Nüwa in Fairyland . Zee is also an avid assistant designer, working on Emerson Stage’s devised piece I Love XXX (cha cha cha) with Athena Parkman. Zee has wardrobe supervised for Macbeth (emShakes), No Exit (emShakes), and Imogen Says Nothing (Emerson Stage). Graduate of The International School of Amsterdam Class of 2023.
Imogen Says Nothing
Spelling Bee
Instagram: @zahavaleah Website: zeecowan.com
Matt Dandino He/They
Matt Dandino (Production Electrician & EOS Programmer)
Credits: Late: A New Musical (BCA Plaza, Production Electrician), Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out (Hammerstein Ballroom, Electrician/Spot Op), College Light Opera Company 2024 Season (Electrician/Carpenter), Forestburgh Playhouse 2023 Season (Assistant Electrician), Emerson College: ...Spelling Bee (Lighting Designer/Programmer), The 44th Annual EVVY Awards (Production Electrician), Head Over Heels (Programmer), I Love XXX (Lighting Designer/Programmer), My Dearest Apologies (Lighting Designer/Production Electrician), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Production Electrician), Heathers (Production Electrician/Programmer).
Website: mattdandino.com
MJ Fox
MJ Fox is excited to be graduating Emerson College as a Scenic Designer and Props Artisan, with a BFA in Theatre Design in production. MJ has a passion for developing non-traditional environments, taking inspiration from nature and deconstruction to create detailed and intricate storytelling spaces, for traditional and contemporary productions. Scenic Designer and Props Artisan
Credits: (Scenic Design) Omeeds Tapestries, A People, Shrek, Radium Girls, The Great Ignored, RENT, Over The River and Through The Woods, Pooh’s Corner, Sweeney Todd, (Props Lead), Signing in the Rain, Little Women, Million Dollar Quartet, The Emperors New Clothes, Forever Plaid, Rumplestiltskin, Emerson College: The Great God Pan (Scenic Design), Amour (Scenic Design), Digging Up Dessa (Props Lead), Little Women (Asst. Scenic Design), Bat Boy (Asst. Props Lead), The Loyals (Asst. Scenic Design
Website: MJfoxdesign.com
Emery Frost She/Her Emery Frost is an emerging video designer specializing in new, developmental, and devised works. Her practice is rooted in the compositional techniques of experimental video art. Adjacent to design, Emery also enjoys writing and devising theatre. She loves when the generation of stories and multimedia design intersect and hence elevate the final product.
Projection Design credits: Emerson Stage’s The Great God Pan and I Love XXX ; Mercutio Troupe’s Jamie has a Bomb and The Effect ; BlueWorks’ The Omniscient Bus ; BlueJay Theater Collective’s SLUT : The Play ; MTS and MTAG’s EFA Cabaret 2024; Andy’s Summer Playhouse’s Battle of the Books and FATED . Assistant Projections Designer credit: The Moderate at Central Square Theatre. Emery’s video art has also been featured at the Boston Museum of Science’s WAVEFORMS. BFA Theatre Design and Technology, concentration in Projection Design.
Instagram: @emeryfrost.design Website: emeryfrost.cargo.site
Heidi Keithahn She/Her
An MA based dresser and costume technician. She is also a recent Emerson College grad (‘26) who has worked at Wheelock Family Theatre: The Spongebob Musical, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Prom, Annie . Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Henry VI Part 1, Measure for Measure . Chuang Stage: Nüwa in Fairyland .
Heidi.Keithahn@gmail.com hwardrobe.weebly.com Head over Heels, A Doll’s House . She enjoys embroidering, beading, basket weaving, latchhooking, and other innovative craft projects. Additional 3 years work in Emerson’s Costume Shop and Emstage wardrobe select credits including: Sweet Charity, The Great God Pan, Amour, POTUS, Batboy: the Musical . Emstage assistant design credits:
Eri Lackey She/They I’m Eri, a lighting designer and
scenic/props artist from Maryland. I've been involved in the arts my entire life, but really made a commitment to Theatre in high school. From pit orchestra to acting to painting, I've seen almost every side of theatre. All of these different experiences have allowed me to shape my design and communication styles to be inclusive of many different genres and forms of this complex art. Since starting my studies at Emerson, I’ve dreamed of eventually being able to travel the world through theatre, being able to make art influenced by the world around me. Select Lighting Designs at Emerson include: Sweet Charity, POTUS, 5 Times in 1 Night, Sweeney Todd , and more!
Catalina M. Mayoral She/Her Catalina is a Live Audio Engineer/Technician and Sound Designer based in Boston and Los Angeles. Her work is rooted in live music and live engineering, and she is interested in the intersection of mixing, live sound, and large-scale audio environments. She focuses both on the creative and technical aspects of sound, with an emphasis on authenticity, clarity, and the overall listening experience. She is currently pursuing her BFA in Design/Technology (Fall’26) at Emerson College, and she is a student member of TSDCA, USITT, and AES.
Emerson Stage Credits: The Great God Pan (Sound Design), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Assistant Sound Design), and Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship Production: Red Wolf (Asst. Sound Design), Her technical credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (A1), Amour (A1), I Love XXX (Associate Production Sound Engineer), and POTUS (Assistant Production Sound Engineer).
Website: catalina-m-mayoral.com Instagram: @Mae.Catalina
Oscar McQuilkin He/They/She Oscar McQuilkin is a multidisciplinary creator, specializing in scenic carpentry and prop design. Based in the East Coast, he is completing his BFA in Technology & Design at Emerson College (Class of ‘26). Oscar McQuilkin specializes in multimedium carpentry with a focus in wood and steel fabrication. They also have experience with scenic painting and technical directing. He hopes to continue pursuing carpentry and stagehand work for a variety of live performances.
His regional credits include being Assistant Prop Designer for A Christmas Carol and As You Like It for the 2025 season of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Their Emerson Stage credits include Sweet Charity (Lead Welder), Digging Up Dessa (Technical Director), Confederates (Assistant Technical Director), as well as being a carpenter with the Emerson Stage Scene Shop for three seasons.
Sophie O’Quest Any Pronouns Sophie is a Costume Designer, Cosplayer, and Writer from San Luis Obispo, CA. She draws a lot of inspiration from her favorite shows, movies, and music and loves exploring how clothing can tell a character’s story. Her work tends to be focused in dark yet colorful, grunge-y, magical realism with a heavy focus on the smaller details that show off a character’s personality.
Emerson Stage credits: Paris (Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor), 16 Winters, Or The Bear’s Tale (Wardrobe Supervisor), Second Star to the Right (Assistant Costume Designer), Red Wolf (Costume Designer), When Death Crashes a Dinner Party (Costume Designer)
Website: sophieoquest.squarespace.com
Alexa Peterson-Ismail
She/They
Alexa’s costume craftsmanship can be seen in, “The Spitfire Grill” (Wardrobe Crew), “Secret in the Wings” (Assistant Costume Designer), “Little Women” (Assistant Costume Designer), “Batboy” (Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor), “The Impracticality of Modern Day Mastodons” (Wardrobe Supervisor), “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” (Costume Designer), “Great God Pan” (Costume Designer), Emerson Costume Shop Fall 2023 - May 2026, A Wrinkle in Time (Asst. Costume Designer), Kidding Around, Dog Sees God (Costume Designer), BlueJay Theater Collective. Film: “Hazbin” (Superhero Costume Designer & Stitcher), “When Summer Ends” (Co-Costume Designer). Alexa is proud of the work she has put forth.
Anton Santiago
They/he
Anton is a Sound and Scenic Designer from Los Angeles, now based in Boston. They take inspiration from music and art history and have a passion for classic works. Anton is a lifelong musician, their current instrument of choice being the trombone. They are a composer, writing mostly conceptual pieces for horns and woodwinds. While studying at Emerson College, they have also directed, focusing their work on discussions of gender identity. They have an artistic interest in horror, specifically body horror and how perception differs from reality. antonsantiago.com
Emerson Stage Credits: Julius Caesar (Sound Designer), Red Wolf (Scenic Designer), Newfest Short Works’ Terminal Lucidity (Director), …Edward Tulane (ATD), …Modern Day Mastodons (Asst. Props), How We Got On (Assistant Scenic Designer), …The Great Comet of 1812 (ATD), Mary Sweet Mary (ATD) Emerson College Credits: Mercutio Troupe’s 10 Out of 12 (Sound Designer), emShakes’ The Inheritance Part 1 (Sound Designer), BlueJay Theater Collective’s Rabbit Hole (Sound Designer), emShakes’ Hamlet (Director)
Lorenzo Sosa Lopez They/She
Lorenzo Sosa Lopez is a sound designer, composer, audio engineer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Boston, MA. As a proud Mexican-American theatre artist, she has a deep passion for stories by contemporary playwrights which examine the world we inhabit and challenge the biases with which our world is constructed.
Select design credits include Sweet Charity, When Death Crashes a Dinner Party, I Love XXX, Imogen Says Nothing (Emerson Stage), GUTS (Moonbox Productions), The Effect (Mercutio Troupe), Macbeth (emShakes Theatre Company). Select engineering credits include Julius Caesar, …Putnam County Spelling Bee, …The Great Comet of 1812 (Production Sound, Emerson Stage), Head Over Heels (A1, Emerson Stage), The Spitfire Grill (A2, Emerson Stage), LATE: A New Musical (A1, Love Sadie Musicals and Moonbox Productions), UnCommon Corner (Audio Technician). Lorenzo also regularly freelances for companies like Ansera, 4Wall, and Olmstead Sound.
Chiron Speidel They/them
Chiron is a lighting and costume designer from Boston, Massachusetts and Concord, New Hampshire. They are graduating from Emerson college with a BFA in Design and Technology with a concentration in lighting and costumes. They draw inspiration from their favorite historical periods whether it be clothing or art works. They have made period accurate clothing from the Victorian era.They find that their work with crafts helps them use color in design. They enjoy exploring a range of lighting techniques to convey the emotion of the story.
Julius Caesar (Lighting Designer), Red Wolf (Lighting Designer), Second Star to the Right (Asst. Costume Designer), Sweet Charity (Associate Costume Designer)
Stel Stein
They/Them Stel is a Lighting Designer and artist from Philadelphia, PA. Their work has a distinct whimsical and experimental style, drawing inspiration from animation, illustration, and natural phenomena. They are especially interested in musical theatre, opera, and theatre for youth. Their favorite gel is R384 Midnight Blue and their favorite gobo is R77154 Star Cluster.
Emerson Stage credits: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Lighting Designer), Little Women (Asst. Lighting Designer), Digging Up Dessa (Production Electrician), Head Over Heels (Lead Electrician), Second Star to the Right (Lead Electrician), The Secret in the Wings (Asst. Lead Electrician) Emerson College design credits: ERA Awards 2026 (Student Engagement & Leadership), Assassins (Musical Theatre Society), 10 Out of 12 and The Trail to Oregon! (Mercutio Troupe), Hamlet and The Metamorphosis (emShakes), Nine Lives: Murder in Citytown and Kitty Litter (Independent). Resident Lighting Designer at Plymouth Performing Arts Center Musical Theater Camps 2024/2025.
Instagram: @stel.stein.ld Website: stelsteinldx.weebly.com
Anna Ten Eyck
They/Them
Anna is a costume designer based on the East Coast. Their primary focus is in-depth character creation and they especially enjoy collaborating with actors to bring their understanding of the character into the show’s visual aesthetic. Anna is also passionate about costume crafts, especially maskmaking, and tends to take a hands-on approach to the fabrication of their designs.
Credits: Emerson Stage credits: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Costume Designer); The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Costume Designer); Head Over Heels (Asst. Costume Designer); Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812 (Asst. Costume Designer). Emerson College Theatre costume design credits: Musical Theatre Society’s Assassins ; emShakes Theatre Company’s Nüwa in Fairyland , No Exit , Hamlet , Metamorphosis , and Lord of the Flies ; RareWorks Theatre Company’s Five Times in One Night ; Kidding Around’s June, July, August . Website: aftendesign.com
Georgianne Ten Eyck She/they
Georgianne is a recent graduate of Emerson College's Design and Technology program, concentrating in Costume Construction and Production as well as Props Making, getting her start as a cosplayer and making her way to working as a Draper and Crafts person in the costume shop as well as working in the prop shop on campus.
Taking a unique approach to costume construction by focusing on thrift flipping and upcycling, transforming existing garments into costumes and fashion pieces and reconstructing ordinary materials into props. Her passions expand to working as a stylist as well as production design and construction for photoshoots, film, music videos and more!
georgianneteneyck.com portfolio~
Ryan Tse He/Him
Ryan Tse is a Light Designer and Electrician from San Jose. CA with extensive experience in theatrical and dance productions. He loves using light as his medium of art to express his creative vision for each production that he is a part of. He is a very visual person, using inspiration from different shows, video games, and animation style to help express his artistic vision.
Emerson Stage credits: Great God Pan (Lighting Designer) Digging Up Dessa (Company Manager); Spelling Bee (Asst. Company Manager); Limber: a Love Story (Lighting Designer); POTUS (Production Electrician); ...Edward Tulane (Production Sound Engineer); Second Star to the Right (Asst. Sound Designer); 16 Winters (Asst. Lighting Designer); Bonnets (Asst. Lead Electrician); How We Got On (Asst. Production Sound Engineer); NewFest Short Works (Production Assistant); Mary, Sweet Mary (Asst. Lead Electrician); The Spitfire Grill (Production Assistant). Emerson College credits: Mercutio Troupe’s Thanksgiving Play (Lighting Designer), Emshakes’ The Inheritance: Part One (Lighting Designer), Kidding Around’s Barry and the Bear (Lighting Designer) and Almost, Maine (Lighting Designer).
Nina Marie Turovskiy NINA MARIE TUROVSKIY is excited to be graduating from Emerson College with a degree in Theater Design and Technology. An East Coast-based designer and illustrator, She specializes in costume design for musical theater, with design experience in ballet and
dance that informs her approach to movement and visual storytelling.
Select Emerson Stage credits include: Sweet Charity (Costume Designer); Julius Caesar (Asst. Director); Head Over Heels (Draper); Amour (Costume Designer); Imogen Says Nothing (Draper); 16 Winters (Asst. Director); How We Got On (Asst. Costume Designer). Select film credits include: Gianna Cavarozzi’s Sweet Tooth (Costume Designer); Chay Buchholz- Guerrero’s Sweet Nothings (Costume Designer); Morgan Hafke’s Potato Heads (Costume Designer).
Instagram: @ninaturovskiy Website: turovskiy.com
Lindsey Wettstein
She/They
Lindsey Wettstein (She/They) is a scenic designer based out of NY and Boston graduating from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre Design/Technology in May. Lindsey’s recent credits include Emerson Stage credits: Mary Sweet Mary (Asst. Scenic Designer), Bat Boy The Musical (Asst. Scenic Designer), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Scenic Painter), POTUS (Scenic Designer), I Love XXX (Asst. Props Lead). The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Props Lead). Emerson College Credits: Mercutio Troupe’s Jamie Has A Bomb (Scenic Designer), Emshakes’ Macbeth (Co-Scenic Designer), ERA Awards 2025 (Scenic Designer), EVVYs 44 (Co-Scenic Designer). She also has interests in props making and the world of haunted houses.
Instagram: @lwettstein.design Website: https://lwettsteindesign.my.canva.site/
Pamela White She/Her Pamela White is an emerging theatre director, administrator, and playwright particularly interested in bringing new life to the stage, whether that be by shaking up the classics or producing new work. She strongly believes that theatre has a responsibility to foster compassion, communication, and community. Pam has primarily worked as an assistant director — recent credits include: Something Rotten! (Lyric Stage Boston); When Death Crashes a Dinner Party (Emerson College); Caligula (British American Drama Academy); The Inheritance: Part 1 (emShakes Theatre Co.). Pam looks forward to graduating in December 2026 with her BFA in Theatre from Emerson College.
Pam has primarily worked as an Assistant Director: Something Rotten! (Lyric Stage Boston); When Death Crashes a Dinner Party (Emerson College); Caligula (British American Drama Academy); The Inheritance: Part 1 (emShakes Theatre Co.); Sunflowers (Bethlehem Central High School); Puffs (Bethlehem Central High School). For more, check out www.pamelavwhite.com
Website: pamelavwhite.com
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