About

Kate Noll is an award winning scenic and costume designer based in Northern California. Her passion is opera and she has recently been fortunate in designing opera sets for Heartbeat Opera, Juilliard Conservatory, Yale Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, Loft Opera, Bard Conservatory, Yale Baroque Opera Project, and the New York Philharmonic. In addition to opera, she loves theater, having designed for Playwrights Horizons, Red Bull Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Barrington Stage Company, Marin Theater Company, Theater Squared, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, August Strindberg Rep, The Amoralists, Ars Nova, New School for Drama, Yale Cabaret, Yale School of Drama, Peabody Essex Museum, and the Ricochet Collective. Her design for Wet Brain won her both an OBIE and a Lucille Lortel Award. She was a finalist for the Opera America Director/Designer Showcase for her design of Lizzie Borden, and  has been nominated for a Connecticut Critics Circle Choice Award (Accidental Death of an Anarchist), an Innovative Theater Award (Gordy Crashes), and a Henry Hewes Design Award (Orange Julius).  She has had the pleasure of collaborating with inimitable directors such as Dustin Wills, Gilbert Blin, Jessica Holt, Louisa Proske, Christopher Bayes, Doug Fitch, Sherri Eden Barber, Nicole Delaney, Andreas Hager, Chongren Fan, Alison Moritz, Giselle Ty, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Dorothy Danner, and Margot Bordelon.

Kate attended the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in Painting and Illustration. While at RISD, she attended the European Honors Program in Rome. After college, she lived in Amsterdam for two years as a studio artist. Since then, she worked in New York designing scenery for over 15 years. In addition to designing for theater and opera, she does production design for tv and film and prop styling for commercial and editorial print campaigns. Kate has an MFA in Scenic Design from the Yale School of Drama.

Representation

Noah Ezell | MMA

(212) 221-0400 315 West 39th St.
Suite 607
New York, NY 10018

noah@michaelmooreagency.com

Studio

kate.a.noll@gmail.com