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Women Designers
in alphabetical order by last name within categories of design

Below are all the women* writers that have worked on the productions that we have seen or listed.

Set/Scenic

Ann Bartek -  I Married Wyatt Earp

April Bartlett -  Meg's New Friend, Shake the Earth

Ann Beyersdorfer - Red Flamboyant  
  
Tijana Bjelajac -  The Power of Birds 

Suzanne Bocanegra - Let Us Now Praise Susan Sondheim

Jessica Brettle (Production design) -  Federer versus Murray

Miriam Buether -  Love and Information

Andromache Chalfant -  Edgewise   

Bunny Christie - Henry IV
  
Vicki R. Davis -  Wife to James Whelan, Temporal Powers, Rutherford and Son, Katie Roche

Es Devlin -  Machinal (Roundabout)

Sarah Edkins - In Bed with Roy Cohn
  
Kristin Ellert (Set, Production, Video design)

Elli Engstrom - In Flight

Jen Price Fick -  Once Upon a Time in New Jersey

Robin Frohardt -  The Pigeoning

Meganne George -  Hamlet, Mother of God!, This Will All Be Yours, The Brightness of Heaven, She Calls Me Firefly

Marsha Ginsberg -  Lascivious Something, Jackie 

Anne Allen Goelz - Trail of Crumbs    

Zhanna Gurvich -  Ladies in Retirement, Chaos Theory

Mary Hamrick - Night of the Living

Rachel Hauck -  Creature, To The Bone 

Caite Hevner (Kemp) -  Rift

Taryn Humphrey -  Swell  

Starlet Jacobs -  I know What Boys Want

Sylviane Jacobsen -  The Vigil or The Guilded Cradle 
 
Laura Jellinick -  Honey Brown Eyes, Small Mouth Sounds, Buzzer 

Christine Jones - Let the Right One In (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Jian Jung - Ludic Proxy

Adrienne Kapalko -  All Through The Night

Anna Kiraly -  Dog and Wolf

Maxine Willi Klein -  Prophecy   

Beth Lake - The Dreamer Examines His Pillow

Ashil Lee - Elephants and Other Worldly Dilemmas

Julia C. Lee -  Belleville

Mimi Lien -  The Zero Hour, Born Bad, Milk Like Sugar, An Octoroon (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015), John    

Sheryl Liu -  Fishing For Wives, Sayonara  

Rebecca Lord-Surratt - Happily After Ever

Anna Louizos - The Substance of Fire

Ashley Mills - Rapunzel in the Wild West

Andreea Mincic -  Three Pianos, Sontag Reborn 
 
Lucretia Moroni -  Tosca e le Altre Due 

Laura Moss - Gruesome Playground Injuries    

Kate Noll - Gordy Crashes   

Julia Noulin-Mérat - The Dreamer Examines His Pillow

Ellen Nabarro - Henry IV

Deb O (Set, Environment and Costume design) -  (+)30NYC: new plays imagining the next new york

Alexandra Panzer - Hand Foot Fizzle Face

Kina Park -  Stray

Jessica L. Parks -  The Housewives of Mannheim

Sarah Pearline (Scenic and Projection Design) -  The Hidden Sky

Lucy Read -  Three Women

Kristen Robinson - Motherstruck

Amy Rubin - How to Live on Earth

Samantha Schaffer - Brothers

Joanie Schlafer- Elephants and Other Worldly Dilemmas

Melissa Shakun -  Airswimming

Alisa Simonel-Keegan - Devil and the Deep

Narelle Sissons -  Smudge

Ashlee Springer - Hold On To Your Butts

Kris Stone -  Sleeping Rough 

Amy Sutton - The Bad German

Cat Tate Starmer - Magdalen

Christina Tang - Plath.
 
Gretchen Van Lente (Director & Designer) - Leakey's Ladies

Brittany Vasta -  Final Analysis, My Purple Wig

Abby Walsh - Delirium's Daughters

Sara C. Walsh - Primal Play

Maureen Weiss -  Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto

Marion Williams -  London Wall

Jo Winiarski -  The Glass House

Peiyi Wong - Hey Jude

Sandy Yaklin - Lickspittles, Buttonholers, & Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens

Hallie Zieselman - Vinegar Tom

Lighting

Roya Abab -  Mamma Roma

Kate Ashton -  Another Part of the Forest, Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto 

Katy Atwell - Trail of Crumbs, Lucky Chick

Jessica M. Burgess -  Airswimming

Isabella F. Byrd -  Once Upon a Time in New Jersey

Lois Catanzaro - Magic Trick

Adrienne Carlile - Devil and the Deep

Chuan-Chi Chan -  Good Egg 

Ji-Youn Chang - Ugly Lies the Bone

Jane Cox -  Machinal (Roundabout), Dinner With Friends, The Mystery of Love and Sex 
 
Dianna Duecker -  Miss Lulu Bett 

​Cecilia Durbin - Every Good Girl Deserves Fun
 
Beverly Emmons -  Stick Fly 

Mary Louise Geiger - Forever    

Rachel Gilmore -  Human Fruit Bowl, Machinal  

Emily Goforth - Hold On To Your Butts

Sara Gosses - Secession 2015

Jessica Greenberg -  All Through The Night   

Olivia Harris -  The Vigil or The Guided Cradle

Alana Jacoby - Delirium's Daughters

Chiara Johnson - The C*nt

Sarah Johnston - A Capella The Musical

Jessica M. Kasprisin - Devil and the Deep

Natasha Katz - The Iceman Cometh

Pamela Kupper -  The Glass House

Sarah Lang - The Weird Tree

Joyce Liao -  7 Sins in 60 Minutes, Mother of God!, Final Analysis

Avery Lincoln - Baby Hubris

Casey McLain -  Geppetto, Alone in Triptych
  
Chelsie McPhilimy - In Flight

Laura Mroczkowski -  Sontag: Reborn

Jill Nagle -  The Housewives of Mannheim

Patricia M. Nichols -  A Splintered Soul

Nicole Pearce -  The Lady With All The Answers, Wife to James Whelan, Edgewise, Rutherford and Son, Mary Broome, Katie Roche, London Wall, A Delicate Ship    

Traci Klainer Polimeni -  How To Be A Good Italian Daughter, The Most Deserving, This Will All Be Yours

Joan Racho-Jansen -  Danton's Death Take 1  

Kia Rogers -  Dog Act, Sans Merci, Jane the Plain,
Soldier X, Sistas

Barbara Samuels - Primal Play, I Will Look Forward to This Later

Darielle Shandler - R Culture

Mimi Jordan Sherin - Nice Fish

Jen Schriever - Eclipsed, Who's Your Baghdaddy

Mary Ellen Stebbins -  My Purple Wig 
 
Heather Sparling -  The Pigeoning

Deb Sullivan -  Or,

Cat Tate Starmer - Magdalen

Masha Tsimring - Hand Foot Fizzle Face, The Bachelors

Jennifer Varbalow - Romeo & Juliet

Cynthia von Buhler - Speakeasy Dollhouse

Christina Watanabe - Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Servant of Two Masters

Carolyn Wong -  Meg's New Friend 

Sandy Yaklin - Office Politics

Marie Yokoyama - Sayonara

Jeanette (Oi-Suk) Yew -  Swell, Ludic Proxy

Morgan Zipf-Meister - Lickspittles, Buttonholers, & Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens

Sound

Amy Altadonna -  Sir Patient Fancy 
 
Emily Auciello -  Final Analysis

Kortney Barber -  Airswimming 

Vera Beren -  Alone in Triptych

Janie Bullard- Every Good Girl Deserves Fun

Johnna Doty - New Country

Jill BC Du Boff -  Sleeping Rough, Final Analysis, The Substance of Fire, To The Bone, the Heidi Chronicles, Of Good Stock 

Katherine A. Buechner -  Good Egg 

Janie Bullard -  Sans Merci, Realists, Jane the Plain, This Will All Be Yours, Salvage, The Servant of Two Masters, Magdalen

Kelsey Didion - Hold On To Your Butts

Ien Denio - Deliverance (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015), Summertime
 
Katie Down -  Creature 

Aubrey Dube - Vinegar Tom

Keegan Fraley - Eleven Reflections on September

Leah Gelpe - Card & Gift, JUDY

Anna Grossman - R Culture, The Perfect Wife, Mourning Sun

Palmer Hefferan - A Delicate Ship

Elisheba Ittoop -  The Architect of Becoming, Underland, MotherStruck, The Bachelors

Beth Lake - Doruntine, Let It Come Down
    
Joy Linscheid -  Birds of Fire, Island Girls

Ellen Mandel (Sound & Composer) -  Rutherford and Son 

Iris McElroy - In Flight

Jessica Paz - Ugly Lies the Bone

Jane Shaw - Men On Boats

Elizabeth Rhodes -  Or, Dog Act 
 
Jane Shaw -  Wife to James Whelan, A Little Journey, Rutherford and Son, Love Goes to Press, Mary Broome, Katie Roche, Jackie, London Wall 
 
Jillian Marie Walker -  Caroline, or Change

Serena Wong - Gordy Crashes  
 
Jeanne Wu - Final Analysis

Costume

Betsy Adkins Johnson - Elephants and Other Worldly Dilemmas

Deborah Andrews - Henry IV

Dede Ayite - Fried Chicken and Latkes, Ugly Lies the Bone

Kima Baffour - Summertime

Heather Baumbach - New Country

Tricia Barsamian - Sistas

Carla Bellisio - Luz

Anna Belous‎‎ - Doruntine

Rebecca Bernstein - Stray

Janell Berté - A Cappella The Musical

Lea Bertucci - Hand Foot Fizzle Face

Emily Blumenauer - Blood Red Roses

Suzanne Bocanegra - Let Us Now Praise Susan Sondheim

Amy C. Bradshaw -  Another Part of the Forest 

Becky Byers - Soldier X

Holly Cain - Trail of Crumbs

Corey Jane Cardoso - EVE    

Suzanne Chesney - Photograph 51

Caitlin Cisek - Let It Come Down

Amy Clark -  Apple Cove 

Brooke Cohen -  The Power of Birds, Catch the Butcher

Jessa-Raye Courts - Mourning Sun 

Jennette Cronk - Baby Hubris

Magdalena Dabrowska - The Other Mozart  

Lara de Bruijn - Happily Ever After  

Allison Dawe - Magic Trick
  
Katherine Akiko Day -  Good Egg 
 
Emily DeAngelis -  All Through The Night

Ellie D'Eustachio - Hell and High Water

Lara De Bruijn -  Dog Act 

Liene Dobraja - Imagining the Imaginary Invalid 
 
Patricia E. Doherty -  The Housewives of Mannheim 
 
Alixandra Gage Englund - Dog and Wolf

Carla Gant - Island Girls 

Meganne George -  This Will All Be Yours, The Brightness of Heaven, She Calls Me Firefly

Beth Goldenberg - Soldier X

Anna Grigo - Come Back Up

Izzy Fields - Delirium's Daughters

Cat Fisher -  Play Nice!, I Know What Boys Want 

Jenny Fisher - Every Good Girl Deserves Fun

Rebecca Freund - Hey Jude

Deanna R. Frieman -  Meg's New Friend, The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams 

Kate Fry - The Architect of Becoming, I Will Look Forward to This Later

Alice J. Garland - Birds of Fire

Lauren Gaston - The Dreamer Examines His Pillow

Anna Gerdes - Miss Lulu Bett

Kimberly Glennon - Chaos Theory

Soule Golden -  Caroline, or Change   
 
Jenny D. Green -  Final Analysis 

Tilly Grimes - Small Mouth Sounds
 
Dafna Grossman - Not By Bread Alone

Martha Hally -  Wife to James Whelan, A Little Journey, Mary Broome, Katie Roche, London Wall 
 
Susan Hilferty - Jackie

Sarah Holden - The Undeniable Sound of Right Now

Andrea Hood - Love and Information

Ashley Rose Horten -

Ásta Bennie Hostetter - Men On Boats, John

Summer Lee Jack -  The Storm, Eurydice's Dream, My Purple Wig, Who's Your Baghdad
 
Toni-Leslie James -  Milk Like Sugar 

Dori Jay - Gruesome Playground Injuries

Cookie Jordan - Eclipsed

Lisa Renee Jordan - Comida De Puta, Romeo & Juliet

Angela M. Kahler -  (+)30NYC: new plays imagining the next new york, Ladies in Retirement 

Traci Klainer - How To Be A Good Italian Daughter, The Most Deserving, ​and This Will All Be Yours

Pamela Kupper - The Glass House

Carmela Lane - Speakeasy Dollhouse

Andrea Lauer - Or,

Karen Ledger - In Bed with Roy Cohn

Stephanie Levin - Jane the Plain, Red Flamboyant, Gordy Crashes

Natalie Loveland - Lucky Chick

Kristina Makowski - Sir Patient Fancy

Jenny Mannis -  Edgewise   
 
Sydney Maresca -  Rift, The Zero Hour, 16 Words or Less, A Delicate Ship, The Bachelors 

Cynthia McDonald - Broken City: Harlem, Poor People

Ashley Mills - Rapunzel in the Wild West

Nicole V. Moody - The Servant of Two Masters

Laura Mroczkowski - Sontag:Reborn

LaToya Murray-Berry - Emmett, Down In My Heart
  
Audrey Nauman - 100 Saints You Should Know
 
Shelley Norton - As It Is In Heaven

Keiko Obremski - Sayonara

Jessica Pabst - There Are No More Big Secrets, Three Pianos, The Heidi Chronicles, Card & Gift, King Liz, JUDY

Alexandra Panzer - Hand Foot Fizzle Face
 
Charlotte Palmer-Lane - Rutherford and Son 
 
Sally Ann Parsons - Prophecy

Nicole Pearce - The Lady With All The Answers, Wife to James Whelan, Edgewise, Rutherford and Son, Mary Broome, Katie Roche, ​and London Wall

Carol Pelletier - Fishing For Wives, Sayonara

Marija Plavsic -  Realists 
 
Meryl Pressman -  The Vigil or The Guided Cradle; Lickspittles, Buttonholers, & Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens
 
Valerie Marcus Ramshur -  The Glass House, A Splintered Soul 
 
Jennifer Raskopf - Danton's Death Take 1

Lucy Read -  Three Women 

Emily Rebholz - The Substance of Fire, Nice Girl

Meredith Ries - Heartbreak

Holly Rihn -  The Vigil or The Guided Cradle; Lickspittles, Buttonholers, & Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens 

Alexandra Rozansky - The C*nt

Sidney Shannon -  The Hidden Sky, Once Upon a Time in New Jersey

Loren Shaw - Ludic Proxy

Normandy Sherwood - Iphigenia at Aulis

Moira Sine Clinton - Underland

Nell Simon - Plath.
 
Nicole Slaven - In Flight

Teresa Snider-Stein - Promising

M. Meriwether Snipes - Primal Play
  
Ilona Somogyi -  The Lying Game, Dinner With Friends, Nice Fish    

Theresa Squire -  Creature, Lascivious Something, To The Bone    

Jennifer Stimple Kamei - Medea & the Furies

Amy Sutton - The Bad German

Carolyn Toner - R Culture

Veneda Truesdale - As It Is In Heaven

Annie Ulrich - Vinegar Tom 

Andrea Varga -  Temporal Powers, Love Goes to Press, The Fatal Weakness (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015) 

Kay Voyce -  Horsedreams, Sleeping Rough, The Mystery of Love and Sex, Forever 
 
Nicole Wee - First Prize

Elizabeth Weisel - Night of the Living

Catherine Zuber (Costume, Props design) - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Gigi (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Properties

Audrey Attardo - Elephants and Other Worldly Dilemmas

Danielle Baskin -  Fishing For Wives 

Jamie Bressler -  Meg's New Friend 
 
Teralyn Bruketta -  Stray 

Jennifer Cooper - Underland    

Kristin Costa (Costume and Prop design) -  The Glass House

ToriAnne DiFilippo - Come Back Up

Patrice Escandon - Heartbreak

Caitlin Fergus -  Photograph 51 


Ashley Flowers - JUDY  

Deborah Gaouette -  Wife to James Whelan

​Jessical Jalal- The Bachelors

Shana McKay Burns - The Servant of Two Masters

Megan McQueeney - The C*nt

Judy Merrick - The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, Lickspittles, Buttonholers, & Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens

Shannon O'Brien - How to Live on Earth
 
Danielle Schultz -  (+)30NYC: new plays imagining the next new york 

Alisha Spielmann - Salvage

Ashlee Springer - Hold On To Your Butts

Catherine Zuber (Costume, Props design) - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Projection/Video

Helena Acosta - Golondrinas/Swallows

Lianne Arnold - How to Live on Earth

Annie Berman -  Final Analysis 

Violette Bule - Golondrinas/Swallows
 
Gemma Carrington -  Brief Encounters

Kristin Ellert  -  Restoration 

Katherine Freer - Fried Chicken and Latkes
  
Jan Hartley -  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Hell and High Water, Comida De Puta 

Anna Kiraly - Dog and Wolf   

Caite Hevner Kemp - Ugly Lies the Bone
 
Danielle Roos - Princess Cut

Kristen Smart -  100 Saints You Should Know

Jeanette (Oi-Suk) Yew - Ludic Proxy 

Graphic

Paula Kelly - 100 Saints You Should Know

Puppet

Candice Burridge  -  Birds of Fire

Emily DeCola - Luz

Tanya Khordoc - Devil and the Deep

Jeanette (Oi-Suk) Yew - Red Flamboyant

Movement/Choreography

Andrea Andresakis -  Final Analysis, My Purple Wig

Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie - The Servant of Two Masters

Tracy Bersley -  The Power of Birds 

Leslie Dockery - That Queer Blind Silence, A Cappella The Musical

Karen Fuhrman - Red Flamboyant

​Clove Galilee - Imagining the Imaginary Invalid

​Erica Gould - Mourning Sun

Lauren Lim Jackson - Sistas

Lisa Kopitsky - Red Flamboyant

Delysia La Chatte - Speakeasy Dollhouse

Marcela Lorca - Nice Fish

Sarita Lou - Devil and the Deep

Christine O'Grady -  Once Upon a Time in New Jersey

Janice Orlandi - The Other Mozart  

Rumi Oyama - Sayonara

Suni Reyes - Comida De Puta

Kendra Ross -  7 Sins in 60 Minutes

Anya Sapozhnikova - Speakeasy Dollhouse

Lee Sher -  The Miracle Worker

Misha Shields - Who's Your Baghdaddy?

Lisa Shriver - In Bed with Roy Cohn

Sonya Tayeh - Iphigenia at Aulis

Rebecca Warner - Hand Foot Fizzle Face

Kate Waters - Henry IV

Ann Yee - Henry IV

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