CHEYANNE TAYLOR WILLIAMS
· Production Manager | Scenic Designer | Theater Artist ·
· 626-710-6294 · cheyannetaylorwilliams@gmail.com ·
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· Production Manager | Scenic Designer | Theater Artist ·
· 626-710-6294 · cheyannetaylorwilliams@gmail.com ·
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SCENIC DESIGN
2025 In the Space Between, choreographed by Victoria Lynn Awkward, Arrow Street Arts, Boston, MA
SLAMDANCE:garage, directed by Ian Andrew Askew, The Bushwick Starr, NYC
2024 HIGHWAY 1, U.S.A, directed by Kaneza Schaal, LA Opera, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Until Other Times, Ian Andrew Askew, JACK, NYC
Sorry John Henry (workshop), directed by Ian Andrew Askew, Hubbard Hall, Cambridge, NY
2022 Touching The Stove Coil, performed by Camila Ortiz, The Performing Garage, NYC+
2021 SLAMDANCE garage (workshop), directed by Ian Andrew Askew, The Performing Garage, NYC+
Is It Supposed To Last?, written by William Burke, The Play Company, NYC
TECHNICAL DIRECTION
2023 OMAR, directed by Kaneza Schaal, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, MA1
KLII, directed by Kaneza Schaal, Chelsea Factory, NYC2
2022 Just for (you), choreographed by Kiara Benn, The Performing Garage, NYC+
2021 Ala Eadha, Kamal Nassif, The Performing Garage, NYC+
SLAMDANCE garage (workshop), Ian Andrew Askew, The Performing Garage, NYC+
2019 Cartography, Kaneza Schaal, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.3
Jack &, Kaneza Schaal, New York Live Arts, NYC4
PROPS DESIGN
2019 Marjana and the Forty Thieves, directed by David Herskowitz, Target Margin Theater, NYC
2018 Big Green Theater, directed by Jem Pickard, The Bushwick Starr, NYC
Pay No Attention to the Girl, directed by David Herskowitz, Target Margin Theater, NYC
Cute Activist, directed by Morgan Greene, The Bushwick Starr, NYC
2017 {my lingerie play}, directed by Diana Oh, Rattlestick Theater, NYC
PERFORMANCE
2024 HIGHWAY 1, U.S.A (The Hare), directed by Kaneza Schaal, LA Opera, Los Angeles, California
2019 And the Whole World Quakes (Woman #2), written by Guy Régis Jr., French Cultural Council, NYC
2018 up your aesthetic (Penthesilea), Original Work, D.C. Fringe, Washington, DC
2017 GO FORTH (Performer #4), directed by Kaneza Schaal, CAC New Orleans
The Fear Project (Fear), directed by Ruby Lanet & Rose Beth Johnson Brown, Wesleyan University, CT
2016 Slaughterhouse V (ensemble), directed by Miranda Haymon, Wesleyan University, CT
Frank (ensemble), directed by Ruby Lanet & Rose Beth Johnson Brown, Wesleyan University, CT
2015 In The Heights (ensemble), directed by Claudia Nascimento, Wesleyan University, CT
2014 The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Pace Creagan), Helen Handelman, Wesleyan University, CT
Metamorphoses (Woman #4), Susannah Clark, Wesleyan University, CT
ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGN
2019 Marjana and the Forty Thieves, Target Margin Theater, design. Carolyn Mraz
Mondo Tragic, National Black Theater, design. Emmie Finckel
2018 Pay No Attention to the Girl, Target Margin Theater, design. Carolyn Mraz
EDUCATION
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT May 2017
Bachelor of Arts, Major: Theatre
SITI Company Summer Intensive, Saratoga, NY Summer 2016
Software: Vectorworks, QLab, Isadora, Dante, Google Suite, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
3Past touring: New Victory Theater, New York (2020); NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE (2020);
4Past touring (2017-2018): Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; REDCAT, Los Angeles; BAM, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland; On the Boards, Seattle; Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio
+part of the Towards a New Collectivity program