Stephanie Kerley Schwartz
Scenic Designer
Stephanie Kerley Schwartz designs Scenery and Costume Designer for the theatre. Based in Los Angeles, her designs have been seen at The Mark Taper Forum, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Ford’s Theatre DC, Artist’s Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, The Geffen Theatre, and many others. She is Resident Designer for Rogue Machine Theatre. Her work has received multiple awards and nominations, including a career achievement award from The LA Drama Critics Circle and several Stage Raw, LA Weekly, LADCC, and two Best Production Awards from the NAACP. She attended the PQ Quadrennial in 2019 as a represented designer in the US exhibit, and as a speaker on eco-theatre practice.
In addition to her theatre design projects, she creates art works in many mediums, which have appeared in the Helms Projecting Possibilities project, Culver City Artwalk, and in galleries in Maine and private shows.
A native of Oklahoma and Kansas, by way of New York City before moving to Los Angeles, she has spent significant periods of time working or residing in Maine, Vermont, Portland Oregon, New Mexico and Washington DC.
Her short stories, prose poems and flash fiction have been published online and in The Santa Monica Review, and she holds reading privileges at The Huntington Library. She attended SUNY College at Purchase earning a BFA in Design for Theatre and lectured at UC Irvine.