Designers
in alphabetical order by last name within categories of design
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The list of women and transgender designers listed here were collected from the Works by Women Database.
Set/ScenicAnn 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 LightingRoya 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 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 SoundEmily 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 |
CostumeBetsy 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) PropertiesAudrey 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/VideoHelena 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 GraphicPaula Kelly - 100 Saints You Should Know
PuppetCandice Burridge - Birds of Fire
Emily DeCola - Luz Tanya Khordoc - Devil and the Deep Jeanette (Oi-Suk) Yew - Red Flamboyant Movement/ChoreographyAndrea 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 |
