Our mentees have gone on to some of the top theaters and graduate school programs in the country, including:
Shakespeare Theatre, Long Wharf Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Spoleto Festival, Williamstown Theater Festival, Classic Stage Company, Atlantic Theater Company. Target Margin, 3LD
Yale School of Drama, NYU Tisch School of Stage and Film, California School of the Arts
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WINGSPACE 2019/2020 MENTEES:
Annie Garrett-Larsen
Annie Garrett-Larsen is a New York based lighting designer. She spent the 2017-18 season as the Lighting Apprentice at Cleveland Play House and holds a BA from Bard College. Select design credits include: The Seagull (Cleveland Play House), Virgin (Ars Nova), Spring Awakening (Secret Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New York Shakespeare Exchange), CRACKED (Theatre at 14th St. Y), Sexy Laundry (The Peterborough Players), Hi, Are You Single? (Cleveland Play House), and How to Eat the Thing that Eats You (Dixon Place). Annie is thrilled to be a Wingspace Mentee for the 2019-20 season! anniegarrett-larsen.com
Carsen Joenk
Carsen Joenk is a director, sound designer, and Brooklyn-based Chicagoan. She is a sucker for ensemble-driven, devised work and intrigued by American morality. A staunch supporter of trash, glitter, and pop music, Carsen embraces stylized theatricality as a means of entertainment, conversation, and dissidence. Carsen is the co-artistic director of Rat Queen Theatre Company, a member of the 2018 NAMT Directing Observership Class, and a 2018-2019 resident artist at Access Theatre. Directing credits include Judy Doomed Us All (Ice Factory / New Ohio), Unboxing (Dixon Place), The Bench (Secret Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Women’s Naked Shakespeare), and multiple projects with Rat Queen. Short plays/readings with La MaMa ETC, Art House Productions, Fresh Ground Pepper, and Exquisite Corpse Co. As a sound designer, she has been an assistant/associate at Clubbed Thumb, The New Group, Long Wharf Theatre, and Juilliard. She is a regular designer with New Light Theater Project, Hedgepig Ensemble, and Spicy Witch Productions. www.carsen-jewell-joenk.com
Christopher Darbassie
Christopher Darbassie is a Trinidadian American interdisciplinary artist. A recent Pace University grad, Chris hopes to utilize sound design as a framework to building new worlds through the emphasis of the psychological and cultural undertones of a production. (Select Credits): Neptune (The Brooklyn Museum), The Hole (New Ohio Theater), Neptune (Dixon Place), Alt-Black (Soho Rep), Two Star Motel (ShapeShifter Lab). Internships: Lincoln Center, The Movement Theatre Company, New Light Theatre Project, Access Theatre, and Bushwick Starr. Check out Chris’s work at www.DarbassieDesign.com
Kamil James
Kamil James is a Bronx born – Brooklyn bred set designer. He recently graduated from Purchase College with a B.F.A. degree in Theatre Design / Technology. His most recent credit includes a trio of one-act Operas consisting of Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi and Raphaël Lucas’ Confession for the Purchase College Conservatory of Music. Select credits include: Earthquakes In London, Working, the Musical, The Aliens, and The Maids for the Purchase Repertory Theatre company. Kamil interned with New York-based set & costume designer, Clint Ramos in 2017 and is currently assisting NY-based set designer, Kristen Robinson at Lincoln Center (June 2019). He is a teaching assistant for the International Center of Photography and during his free time, he enjoys photography and going to live-music concerts. He is excited to be a part of the 2019-2020 Wingspace Mentorship program! www.kamiljames.com
Stefania Bulbarella
Stefania Bulbarella is an Argentine Director and Projection Designer based in Brooklyn. Projection Design: Field Awakening (Signature/Paradise Factory), Azul Otra Vez (BRIC), The Revolution (National Sawdust), B1tcon (Reading- LATEA), Move Towards the Light (German school-touring production). Director: The Sound in the Throat (The Glassbox), Thebes Land (New School for Drama), Venus (Sitio 0), The Man in the Window (Old Lady of Pompeii theatre- Italytime), Ese Animal que Soy a Veces (Reading- LATEA) Associate director: Nanas (LATEA), Field Awakening (Paradise Factory). Assistant Director: Dike -workshop (NYTW), Nanas ( IATI), La Négrophilia (Vineyard Theatre), Somos New York (The United Palace Theatre), Las Mariposas (Clyde and Helen Wu Auditorium). Producer of Latea Reading Series. Studies: BFA in Directing and Creative Technologies at The New School - College of Performing Arts, School of Drama, two year conservatory at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. www.stefaniabulbarella.com
Thomas Ariniello
A new resident of NYC; Thomas is an aspiring costume designer, playwright, and drag queen; currently he co-writes for ReunionBlog.net and most recently, was the Marketing Intern for Molière in the Park and a PA for Denizens Theatre Company's production of Marisol. At Santa Clara University, he designed costumes for Claire Calalo's dance piece in Images 2018,a devised work for Charisma 2018,and worked as a design assistant under Naomi J. Arnst for Legally Blonde; developed two plays, Instinct and Have I Got a Deal For You and a devised work for Charisma 2018; and performed as Ellard Simms in The Foreigner, directed by Aldo Billingslea.
Wingspace 2018-2019 Mentees:
Gregory Casparian / Projection Design
Liz Schweitzer / Lighting Design
M.E. Guadalupe Rubi / Costume Design
Margaret Montagna / Sound Design
Miranda Haymon / Directing
Sam Schanwald / Scenic Design
Wingspace 2017/2018 Mentees:
Caroline Eng Sound Design
Kate Ducey Projection and Lighting Design
Lily Riopelle Directing
Phuong Nguyen Costume Design
Riva Fairhall Scenic and Lighting Design
Ry Burke Lighting Design
Emmanuel Delgado Lighting Design (Intern)
Wingspace 2016/2017 Mentees:
Becky Heisler Lighting Design
Emmie Finckel Set Design
Ian McClain Projection Design
Justin Propper Sound Design
Melissa Ng Costume Design
Wingspace 2015/2016 Mentees:
Jennifer Fok Lighting Design
Kalyani Priyadarsan Scenic Design
Elisabeth Svenningsen Scenic Design