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2023 Design
Showcase
Presenting the David Geffen School of Drama
at Yale Design Showcase for the class of
2023.

WHERE WHEN
The Public Thursday,
Theater May 18
Studios 11AM–1PM
2PM–5PM
440
Lafayette St. Friday, May
19
New York, 11AM–1PM
NY 2PM–5PM

Space is limited. To ensure the safety and

comfort of all attendees please contact Kate
Begley Baker, Senior Administrative
Assistant to Design at [email protected]
or 203.432.1579 to secure a reservation.

All visitors must be vaccinated with a

booster and be able to show proof of
vaccination upon arrival.

Meet the Designers

DGSD Design Program - 2022

David Geffen School of Drama

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Aidan Griffiths
(Costume Design)

A graduate of David Geffen School of

Drama at Yale and University of North
Carolina School of the the Arts. Aidan
Griffiths has been working in the field of
Costumes for the last 13 years. As a
freelance Costume Designer and
Illustrator she has designed for theatre,
opera and dance. Her work has been seen
internationally with The Bang Group. Her
most recent credits are The ripple, the
wave that carried me home (Yale Rep)
Affinity (DGSD at Yale), Rite of Spring
(Schwarzman Center), Love Sick: The
Rock Opera (National Sawdust), There’s a
Strange Thing at the End of the Loop
(Yale Cabaret), Radiant Vermin (Yale
Cabaret). She has worked with directors
such as Gayle Taylor Upchurch, Carl
Forsman, Tamilla Woodard, Alex Keegan,
James Matthew Daniels, Christina
Franklin and Jacob Basri. She has
collaborated on dance pieces with David
Parker, Jeff Kazin, Emily Coates and
Lasso Coulibaly.

Cat Raynor
(Set Design)

Cat Raynor is a set and production

designer for stage and film from New
York, and a fourth-year MFA candidate in
set design at David Geffen School of
Drama. Recent design credits include
The Brightest Thing In The World (Yale
Repertory Theater), Brainsmash (59E59),
Affinity, Twelfth Night (David Geffen
School of Drama); Iris & Maggie, A Doll’s
House, Love Songs (Yale Cabaret); You
Don’t Have to Do Anything (IRT Theater),
and short films MAJOR and Good Taste.
Cat previously worked in the art
department of the The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel. She is a Yale Cabaret Advisory
Board member for the 2022-23 season
Yale Cabaret 55: Parachute. Cat holds a
B.A. in fine art from Kenyon College.

catraynor.com

Emmie Finckel
(Scenic Design)

Emmie Finckel (they/them) is a queer,

Asian-American scenic and properties
designer specializing in new work and
immersive design. Emmie is excited by
work rooted in community and
collaboration that prioritizes inclusivity
and challenges traditional uses of
theatrical space. Recent design credits
include the ripple, the wave, that carried
me home (Yale Repertory Theater),
Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater:
Mobile Unit), As You Like It (La Jolla
Playhouse), 53% Of (2nd Stage), In the
Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Playwright’s
Theatre), The Watering Hole (Signature
Theatre), Heart Strings (Atlantic Theater
Company), In the Penal Colony (NYTW
Next Door), Athena (JACK), Manning
(Yale School of Drama), Riot Antigone (La
MaMa), Mondo Tragic (National Black
Theater), Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie
(Props – Ars Nova), Folk Wandering
(Props – ART/NY), SHE: A Choreoplay,
And It Felt Like A Kiss... (HERE Arts),
Loudon Wainwright’s Surviving Twin
(Subculture NYC), Eurydice, The
Pillowman, Mr. Burns… (Wesleyan
University), Oklahoma!, The Armor Plays,
The Wolves, Rhinoceros, and The Wiz
(Fieldston School). Assistant/associate
design credits include productions with
David Korins (Hamilton, Dear Evan
Hansen) and Gabriel Evansohn (KPOP,
Empire Travel Agency). Emmie serves as
the Associate Creative Director of the
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, and
frequently works on music festivals and
other experiential events in collaboration
with Iron Bloom Creative Production.
Emmie holds a BA from Wesleyan
University and is currently on the faculty
of the Playwrights Horizons Theater
School. Member of Local USA 829 and
Woodshed Collective.

efinckel.com

Evdoxia Ragkou
(Sound Design)

Evdoxia Ragkou (she/her/hers) is a New

Haven-based sound artist and composer.
She is keenly interested in the nature of
sound, using it as her primary medium for
composition, and strongly believes in its
storytelling powers. She writes all sorts
of music and is oriented towards creative
ways to tell stories. She has worked in
venues such as Rattlestick Theater,
Playwrights Horizons, Yale Cabaret, and
Yale Repertory Theatre. She has also
written music for various dance projects
and short films. She also wears the hat of
a solo artist, and you can say that she is
overall a person of a sound mind.

Hannah Tran
(Projection Design)

Hannah Tran is a designer for

performance and media. With a passion
for new work, she has designed and been
a part of the development process for
productions such as K-I-S-S-I-N-G
(Huntington Theatre Company), The
Night Falls (BalletCollective), and
Regretfully, So The Birds Are (Ojai
Playwrights Conference). Her work has
been seen at the Guggenheim as part of
their Works and Process series and she
has collaborated with Pigment Design Lab
and the Broadway Advocacy Coalition.
Other design credits include Sound of
Music (Utah Shakespeare Festival),
Disenchanted , and She Kills Monsters:
Virtual Realms (Laguna Playhouse). In her
time at the David Geffen School of
Drama, Hannah has designed video for
Affinity , Bodas de Sangre , Macbeth , little
boy/littleman , Color Boy , and Furlough’s
Paradise .

hannah-tran.com

邱嘉皓 Jiahao (Neil) Qiu

(Lighting Design)

邱嘉皓 Jiahao (Neil) Qiu is a theatre

collaborator and lighting designer who
loves to work worldwide. He received his
B.F.A. in theatre production and design
from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. He moved back
to China from 2016 to 2019 as a
freelance lighting designer and theatre
worker. He is currently a fourth-year
M.F.A. lighting design candidate at David
Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where
his credits include She Kills Monsters ,
Romeo & Juliet , Measure for Measure ,
and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

neilqiu.com | @neilqiu_design

KIMKIM (Juhee Kim)

(Set Design)

KIMKIM (Juhee Kim) is a fourth-year

M.F.A candidate in set design at David
Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She
received her B.F.A. in painting from
Hongik University* in South Korea, where
she also worked as a set designer for TV
shows and events at CJ ENM*. Recent
credits include The Rape of Lucretia
directed by Candace Evans (Yale Opera);
UDO directed by Bobbin Ramsey (Yale
Cabaret); Romeo & Juliet directed by
Leyla Levi (DGSD); #4 written and
directed by Abigail C. Onwunali (Yale
Cabaret); Art directed by Carson White
(Yale Production); Brand promotion film
for Torre in collaboration with PASOO*.
Her interest in body and space led her to
also explore choreography, as seen in her
work on Over Easy (Yale Cabaret) and her
upcoming choreography for The Winter’s
Tale directed by Sammy Zeisel (DGSD).

kimkimscenic.com

Kyle J. Artone
(Costume Design)

Kyle designs costumes and sets for the

stage and screen. Select credits include:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale
Repertory Theatre), the father, the son,
and the holy spirit (Yale Summer
Cabaret), Gidion’s Knot (Ripple Effects
Artists, Theatre Row), Four Meddling
Kids and One Dumb Dog (Yale Cabaret),
Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical
(Virginia Repertory Theatre), Dr. Ride’s
American Beach House (Yale Cabaret),
Venus in Fur (Shafer Alliance Laboratory
Theatre), The Nightman Commeth
(Shafer Alliance Laboratory Theatre)
Little Shop of Horrors (Raymond Hodges
Theater), and Luther (Life Without Limbs
Production). Collaborators include:
Augustine Lorrie Alexandrite, Matthew
Elijah Webb, James Bundy, Alexandra
Maurice, Alexis Woodard, Rebeca Robles,
Sammy Ziesel, James Taylor, Esperanza
Rosales Balcárcel, Tyler Cruz, Ashley
Thomas, Kikau Alvaro, Kemar Jewel,
Phuong Nguyen, Hannah Chalman, Juhee
Kim, Neno Russell, Yale Cabaret.

In 2019, his designs for Little Shop of

Horrors were juried by decorated
costume designer Linda Cho, who
awarded him third place in the
Southeastern Theatre Conference Design
Competition. That same year he won the
SALTy Dog Award, Best Costume Design,
for Venus in Fur . In 2017, he received the
same award, making his debut as costume
designer for The Nightman Commeth
(Shafer Alliance Laboratory Theatre).
Kyle is originally from Richmond,
Virginia. He received his MFA in Design
from the David Geffen School of Drama
at Yale.

kyle-artone-portfolio.com

Miguel Urbino
(Scenic Design)

Miguel Urbino (he/him/his) is a queer,

first generation, Filipino-American,
designer for the stage, and is a fourth-
year M.F.A. Design candidate at David
Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Design
credits include: Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? (Yale Repertory Theatre); She
Kills Monsters (David Geffen School of
Drama), more more more , soft apples ,
The Van Gogh Café (Yale Cabaret); The
Motherf**ker with the Hat (T. Schreiber
Studios); The Widow of Tom’s Hill
(59E59). Associate Design credits
include: Cowboy Bob (Alley Theatre -
Diggle), A Soldier’s Play (North American
Tour - Derek McLane), The Tap Dance Kid
(NY City Center - Derek McLane).
Assistant Design credits include: The
Harder They Come (Public Theatre - Clint
Ramos and Diggle), Come Fall In Love:
The DDLJ Musical (La Jolla - Derek
McLane). Upcoming works include: The
Light In The Piazza (NY City Center), Mr.
Oatmeal (Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild
Project). Miguel is a proud member of
United Scenic Artists Local USA 829,
IATSE.

[email protected]

Marcelo Martínez García

(Scenic Design)

Marcelo Martínez García (he/him/él) is a

proud Mexican Scenic Designer and
Architect. His recent credits include
Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale
Repertory Theatre), Torera (Alley
Theater), Love’s Labor’s Lost and Bodas
de sangre (DGSD), BURNBABYBURN: An
American Dream (Yale Summer Cabaret),
L’Orfeo and La Doriclea (Yale Baroque
Opera), Dragaret ‘22, Radiant Vermin ,
Let’s Go To The Moon , and
littleboy/littleman (Yale Cabaret).
Marcelo holds a degree in Architecture
from ITESM MTY, a specialization in
Scenic Design from CENTRO CDMX and
is currently finishing his final year
pursuing an MFA in Theater Design at
DGSD.

marcelomg.com

Travis Chinick
(Costume Design)

Travis is a freelance Costume Designer,

Painter, and Illustrator based out of New
York City. He is a member of USA 829 and
IATSE Local 764. Recently, his work on
Fellow Travelers was selected for the
Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer
Prize by OPERA America led by Director
Ian Silverman. Additionally, Travis has
collaborated with Margot Bordelon,
Tatiana Pandiana, Paul McGill, Antoinette
DiPietropolo, Shannon Lewis, Chris
Pederson, Laura Braza, Ed Iskandar,
Jacob Basri and others. He has worked
with such companies as RWS
Entertainment Group, Davenport
Theatrical Enterprises, Broadway Cares
Equity Fights AIDS, Manhattan Theatre
Club, Yale Repertory Theatre, Atlantic
Theatre Company and other companies
across the country. On Broadway he was
the Assistant Costume Designer on the
2014 revival of Les Miserables and
worked for the Metropolitan Opera as a
Painter.

tchinick.com

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