CHEYANNE TAYLOR WILLIAMS
· 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
1Past touring: Carolina Performing Arts, Chapel Hill (2023)2Past touring: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2022), REDCAT, Los Angeles (2022)
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