CABARET
CABARET

Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles, and the Kit Kat Girls | Directed by Rebecca Frecknall | Designed by Tom Scutt • Lights by Isabella Byrd • www.kitkat.club • (photos by Marc Brenner)

Romeo & Juliet
Romeo & Juliet

Broadway 2024 - Circle in the Square
Starring Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor
Direction, Sam Gold • Movement, Sonya Tayeh • Music, Jack Antonoff
Designers • dots • Enver Chakartash • Isabella Byrd • Cody Spencer • Andew Diaz
Associate LD - Victoria Bain • Programmer - Kelley Shih

CABARET - Sally Bowles
CABARET - Sally Bowles

Broadway 2024 -- Gayle Rankin as Sally Bowles • Directed by Rebecca Frecknall • Designed by Tom Scutt • Lights by Isabella Byrd • www.kitkat.club • (photos by Marc Brenner)

SANCTUARY CITY
SANCTUARY CITY

written by Martyna Mayok, directed by Rebecca Frecknall
designs by Tom Scutt, Isabella Byrd, Mikaal Sulaiman
co-directed by Caitlin Sullivan 2021
featuring Sharlene Cruz, Jasai CHase-Owens, Austin Smith, Julian Elijah Martinez

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

Broadway 2024 -- Jeremy Strong, David Patrick Kelly, Caleb Eberhardt, Victoria Pedretti • Directed by Sam Gold • Adapted by Amy Herzog • Designs by dots, David Zinn, Isabella Byrd, Mikaal Sulaiman • (photos by Emilio Madrid)

MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

by Carson McCullers • directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch • set design: Laura Jellinek • lighting: Isabella Byrd • costumes: Clint Ramos • sound: Bray Poor | with Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mainstage 2018 (photo: Daniel Rader)

ENDGAME By Samuel Beckett
ENDGAME By Samuel Beckett

Gate Theatre, Dublin, Directed by Danya Taymor
Cast: Frankie Boyle, Robert Sheehan, Seán McGinley, and Gina Moxley. Designers: Set: Sabine Dargent - Clothes: Katie Davenport - Lights: Isabella Byrd - Sound: Denis Clohessy (Photos: Ros Kavanagh)

CABARET, West End
CABARET, West End

Cast: AmieeLou Wood, Callum Scott Howells + Sophie Maria Wojna, Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley, Madeline Brewer

PRIMARY TRUST - Roundabout, Pels Theatre
PRIMARY TRUST - Roundabout, Pels Theatre

written by Eboni Booth, directed by Knud Adams.
DESIGN | set • Marsha Ginsberg, clothes • Qween Jean, lighting • Isabella Byrd, sound • Mikaal Sulaiman.
Featuring | William Jackson Harper • April Mathis • Eric Berryman • Jay O. Sanders • Luke Wygodny.
PSM: Rachel Bauder, Assoc LD: Victoria Bain

SEASCAPE
SEASCAPE

by Edward Albee • Directed by Pam MacKinnon • Sets & Costumes by David Zinn • Lighting by Isabella Byrd • Sound by Brendan Aanes | for the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco (photo by ib)

EPIPHANY
EPIPHANY

by Brian Watkins, directed by Tyne Rafaeli
at Lincoln Center Theatre, Mitzi Newhouse Theater
designs by John Lee Beatty, Montana Levi Blanco, Isabella Byrd, Daniel Kluger, Cookie Jordan. Associate LD: Megan Dobryn.

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

by Will Arbery • directed by Danya Taymor • set by Laura Jellinek • clothes by Sarafina Bush • lighting by Isabella Byrd • sound by Justin Ellington • with PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS, Mainstage Fall 2019
photo: Joan Marcus
* proud to emphasize this design was unable to be captured in photographs *

Henry Hewes Desing Award, Lortel Award, Obie Award (Creative Team & Ensemble Special Citation), Outer Critics Circle Honoree,
Drama Desk nomination

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

* proud to emphasize this design was unable to be caputred in photographs *
photo: Sara Krulwich for the New York Times

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Member of the Wedding
Member of the Wedding

Roslyn Ruff as Berenice & Tavi Gevinson as Frankie

by Carson McCullers • directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch • set design: Laura Jellinek • lighting: Isabella Byrd • costumes: Clint Ramos • sound: Bray Poor | with Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mainstage 2018 (photo: Daniel Rader)

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 Choreography: Katie Langan Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd Marymount Manhattan College, 2018

Choreography: Katie Langan
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Marymount Manhattan College, 2018

IGNIS  FATUS
IGNIS FATUS

Choreography: Katie Langan
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Marymount Manhattan College, 2018

"DADDY": A Melodrama
"DADDY": A Melodrama

Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Danya Taymor
Set by Matthew Saunders
Costumes by Montana Levi Blanco
Lighting by Isabella Byrd
Sound and Music Composition by Lee Kinney
Original Vocal Score by Darius Smith and Brett Macias

Co-Produced by The New Group and The Vineyard Theatre, 20

"DADDY": A Melodrama
"DADDY": A Melodrama

Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Danya Taymor
Set by Matthew Saunders
Costumes by Montana Levi Blanco
Lighting by Isabella Byrd
Sound and Music Composition by Lee Kinney
Original Vocal Score by Darius Smith and Brett Macias

Co-Produced by The New Group and The Vineyard Theatre, 2019

"DADDY" A Melodrama
"DADDY" A Melodrama
SUCH THINGS AS VAMPIRES
SUCH THINGS AS VAMPIRES

People’s Light
Directed by Stuart Carden
Conceived and Created by Zak Berkman, Stuart Carden, Jessie Fisher, and Mary Tuomanen
Sets: Arnel Sancianco, Lights: Isabella Byrd, Costume: Melissa Ng, Sound: Lee Kinney

Barrymore Nomination for Best Lighting Design, 2019 Theater Philadelphia

LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

@ New York Theatre Workshop
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Sets: Riccardo Hernandez
Lights: Isabella Byrd
Costumes: Toni Leslie James
Properties: Noah Mease
Sound: Mikaal Sulaiman
Music by: Orion Stephanie Johnstone

All Seems Beautiful to Me— I Will…
OBIE AWARD, Lighting Design 2019

LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

@ New York Theatre Workshop
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Sets: Riccardo Hernandez
Lights: Isabella Byrd
Costumes: Toni Leslie James
Properties: Noah Mease
Sound: Mikaal Sulaiman
Music by: Orion Stephanie Johnstone

All Seems Beautiful to Me

LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

@ New York Theatre Workshop
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin

Cobbe’s Vision

Plano
Plano

ClubbedThumb Summerworks 2018
Written by Will Arbery
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Set by Daniel Zimmerman
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Clothes by Stephanie Levin
Sound by Mark Van Hare

Photos by Elke

"I'm in a play, no..."
"I'm in a play, no..."

PLANO, produced by Clubbed Thumb at the Connelly Theater
By Will Arbery
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Set: Daniel Zimmerman
Costumes: Stephanie Levin
Lights: Isabella Byrd
Sound: Tyler Kieffer

The Hello Girls
The Hello Girls

THE HELLO GIRLS
Music and lyrics by PETER MILLS
Book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
Directed by CARA REICHEL
Choreographed by CHRISTINE O'GRADY
Music directed by BEN MOSS
Set&Projection: LIANNE ARNOLD
Lights: ISABELLA BYRD
Costumes: WHITNEY LOCHER
Sound: KEVIN HEARD
photos: Richard Termine

The Thanksgiving Play
The Thanksgiving Play

Written by Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Scenic Design: Wilson Chin
Costume & Puppet Design: Tilly Grimes
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Sound Design: Mikaal Sulaiman

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THE SLOW ROOM
THE SLOW ROOM

Director: Annie Dorsen
Scenic Design: Marsha Ginsberg
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd and Cheyenne Sykes
Dramaturg: Tom Sellar
Costume Design: Robert Croghan
Sound Design: Ian Douglas-Moore
Producer: Natasha Katerinopoulos

Photo by Maria Baranova

at Performance Space New York

ARTNEY JACKSON
ARTNEY JACKSON

Williamstown Theatre Festival, Nikos Stage
By James Anthony Tyler
Directed by Laura Savia
Ray Anthony Thomas as Artney

Set: Arnulfo Maldonado
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Costumes: Emilio Sosa
Sound: Stowe Nelson

Photo by Daniel Rader

ORLANDO
ORLANDO

Fordham University
Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe

photos by Edward T. Morris

SEASCAPE
SEASCAPE
QUEEN FOR A DAY
QUEEN FOR A DAY

By Michael Ricigliano
Directed by John Gould Rubin
St. Clements Theatre

Set Design: Andreea Mincic
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Costume Design: Bobby Tilley
Sound Design: Leon Rothenberg
Photo by Russ Rowland

YOU ACROSS FROM ME
YOU ACROSS FROM ME

Mother's Blessing
directed by Jessica Fisch
by Dipika Guha

performed by the actors of the 2017–2018 Professional Training Company
Photo by Bill Brymer

GOD SAID THIS
GOD SAID THIS

by Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by Morgan Gould

2018 Humana Festival
photo by Jonathan Roberts

WE REMAIN PREPARED
WE REMAIN PREPARED

Satori Group + ARTBARN
Seattle, Washington @ The Georgetown Steam Plant

Directed by Caitlin Sullivan & Jess Smith
2016

 

SUNDOWN YELLOW MOON
SUNDOWN YELLOW MOON

ARS NOVA + WP THEATRE
By: Rachel Bonds, music by The Bengsons
Directed by Anne Kauffmann
McGinn Cazale Theatre

Set Design: Lauren Helpern
Co-Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd & Matt Frey
Costumes: Jessica Pabst
Sound: Leah Gelpe

Returning to Albert Joseph
Returning to Albert Joseph

Satori Group, at Williams College
by Spike Friedman
Director: Caitlin Sullivan
Sets: Cate McCrea
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Sound: Eben Hoffer
Costume: Greta Wilson

HAMLET, A VERSION
HAMLET, A VERSION

Written by Boris Akunin
translated by Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Directed by Irina Gachechiladze
ST. CLEMENTS THEATRE

Set Design: Cate McCrea
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Sound: Sam Kusnetz & Alana Jacoby

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CABARET
Romeo & Juliet
CABARET - Sally Bowles
SANCTUARY CITY
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
ENDGAME By Samuel Beckett
CABARET, West End
PRIMARY TRUST - Roundabout, Pels Theatre
SEASCAPE
EPIPHANY
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
Heroes4 Joan.jpg
Member of the Wedding
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 Choreography: Katie Langan Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd Marymount Manhattan College, 2018
IGNIS  FATUS
"DADDY": A Melodrama
"DADDY": A Melodrama
"DADDY" A Melodrama
SUCH THINGS AS VAMPIRES
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Plano
"I'm in a play, no..."
The Hello Girls
The Thanksgiving Play
BasilandPeter.jpeg
THE SLOW ROOM
ARTNEY JACKSON
ORLANDO
SEASCAPE
QUEEN FOR A DAY
YOU ACROSS FROM ME
GOD SAID THIS
WE REMAIN PREPARED
SUNDOWN YELLOW MOON
Returning to Albert Joseph
HAMLET, A VERSION
BasilandPeter.jpeg
CABARET

Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles, and the Kit Kat Girls | Directed by Rebecca Frecknall | Designed by Tom Scutt • Lights by Isabella Byrd • www.kitkat.club • (photos by Marc Brenner)

Romeo & Juliet

Broadway 2024 - Circle in the Square
Starring Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor
Direction, Sam Gold • Movement, Sonya Tayeh • Music, Jack Antonoff
Designers • dots • Enver Chakartash • Isabella Byrd • Cody Spencer • Andew Diaz
Associate LD - Victoria Bain • Programmer - Kelley Shih

CABARET - Sally Bowles

Broadway 2024 -- Gayle Rankin as Sally Bowles • Directed by Rebecca Frecknall • Designed by Tom Scutt • Lights by Isabella Byrd • www.kitkat.club • (photos by Marc Brenner)

SANCTUARY CITY

written by Martyna Mayok, directed by Rebecca Frecknall
designs by Tom Scutt, Isabella Byrd, Mikaal Sulaiman
co-directed by Caitlin Sullivan 2021
featuring Sharlene Cruz, Jasai CHase-Owens, Austin Smith, Julian Elijah Martinez

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

Broadway 2024 -- Jeremy Strong, David Patrick Kelly, Caleb Eberhardt, Victoria Pedretti • Directed by Sam Gold • Adapted by Amy Herzog • Designs by dots, David Zinn, Isabella Byrd, Mikaal Sulaiman • (photos by Emilio Madrid)

MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

by Carson McCullers • directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch • set design: Laura Jellinek • lighting: Isabella Byrd • costumes: Clint Ramos • sound: Bray Poor | with Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mainstage 2018 (photo: Daniel Rader)

ENDGAME By Samuel Beckett

Gate Theatre, Dublin, Directed by Danya Taymor
Cast: Frankie Boyle, Robert Sheehan, Seán McGinley, and Gina Moxley. Designers: Set: Sabine Dargent - Clothes: Katie Davenport - Lights: Isabella Byrd - Sound: Denis Clohessy (Photos: Ros Kavanagh)

CABARET, West End

Cast: AmieeLou Wood, Callum Scott Howells + Sophie Maria Wojna, Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley, Madeline Brewer

PRIMARY TRUST - Roundabout, Pels Theatre

written by Eboni Booth, directed by Knud Adams.
DESIGN | set • Marsha Ginsberg, clothes • Qween Jean, lighting • Isabella Byrd, sound • Mikaal Sulaiman.
Featuring | William Jackson Harper • April Mathis • Eric Berryman • Jay O. Sanders • Luke Wygodny.
PSM: Rachel Bauder, Assoc LD: Victoria Bain

SEASCAPE

by Edward Albee • Directed by Pam MacKinnon • Sets & Costumes by David Zinn • Lighting by Isabella Byrd • Sound by Brendan Aanes | for the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco (photo by ib)

EPIPHANY

by Brian Watkins, directed by Tyne Rafaeli
at Lincoln Center Theatre, Mitzi Newhouse Theater
designs by John Lee Beatty, Montana Levi Blanco, Isabella Byrd, Daniel Kluger, Cookie Jordan. Associate LD: Megan Dobryn.

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

by Will Arbery • directed by Danya Taymor • set by Laura Jellinek • clothes by Sarafina Bush • lighting by Isabella Byrd • sound by Justin Ellington • with PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS, Mainstage Fall 2019
photo: Joan Marcus
* proud to emphasize this design was unable to be captured in photographs *

Henry Hewes Desing Award, Lortel Award, Obie Award (Creative Team & Ensemble Special Citation), Outer Critics Circle Honoree,
Drama Desk nomination

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

* proud to emphasize this design was unable to be caputred in photographs *
photo: Sara Krulwich for the New York Times

Member of the Wedding

Roslyn Ruff as Berenice & Tavi Gevinson as Frankie

by Carson McCullers • directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch • set design: Laura Jellinek • lighting: Isabella Byrd • costumes: Clint Ramos • sound: Bray Poor | with Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mainstage 2018 (photo: Daniel Rader)

Choreography: Katie Langan
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Marymount Manhattan College, 2018

IGNIS FATUS

Choreography: Katie Langan
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Marymount Manhattan College, 2018

"DADDY": A Melodrama

Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Danya Taymor
Set by Matthew Saunders
Costumes by Montana Levi Blanco
Lighting by Isabella Byrd
Sound and Music Composition by Lee Kinney
Original Vocal Score by Darius Smith and Brett Macias

Co-Produced by The New Group and The Vineyard Theatre, 20

"DADDY": A Melodrama

Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Danya Taymor
Set by Matthew Saunders
Costumes by Montana Levi Blanco
Lighting by Isabella Byrd
Sound and Music Composition by Lee Kinney
Original Vocal Score by Darius Smith and Brett Macias

Co-Produced by The New Group and The Vineyard Theatre, 2019

"DADDY" A Melodrama
SUCH THINGS AS VAMPIRES

People’s Light
Directed by Stuart Carden
Conceived and Created by Zak Berkman, Stuart Carden, Jessie Fisher, and Mary Tuomanen
Sets: Arnel Sancianco, Lights: Isabella Byrd, Costume: Melissa Ng, Sound: Lee Kinney

Barrymore Nomination for Best Lighting Design, 2019 Theater Philadelphia

LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

@ New York Theatre Workshop
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Sets: Riccardo Hernandez
Lights: Isabella Byrd
Costumes: Toni Leslie James
Properties: Noah Mease
Sound: Mikaal Sulaiman
Music by: Orion Stephanie Johnstone

All Seems Beautiful to Me— I Will…
OBIE AWARD, Lighting Design 2019

LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

@ New York Theatre Workshop
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Sets: Riccardo Hernandez
Lights: Isabella Byrd
Costumes: Toni Leslie James
Properties: Noah Mease
Sound: Mikaal Sulaiman
Music by: Orion Stephanie Johnstone

All Seems Beautiful to Me

LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

@ New York Theatre Workshop
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Rachel Chavkin

Cobbe’s Vision

Plano

ClubbedThumb Summerworks 2018
Written by Will Arbery
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Set by Daniel Zimmerman
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Clothes by Stephanie Levin
Sound by Mark Van Hare

Photos by Elke

"I'm in a play, no..."

PLANO, produced by Clubbed Thumb at the Connelly Theater
By Will Arbery
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Set: Daniel Zimmerman
Costumes: Stephanie Levin
Lights: Isabella Byrd
Sound: Tyler Kieffer

The Hello Girls

THE HELLO GIRLS
Music and lyrics by PETER MILLS
Book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
Directed by CARA REICHEL
Choreographed by CHRISTINE O'GRADY
Music directed by BEN MOSS
Set&Projection: LIANNE ARNOLD
Lights: ISABELLA BYRD
Costumes: WHITNEY LOCHER
Sound: KEVIN HEARD
photos: Richard Termine

The Thanksgiving Play

Written by Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Scenic Design: Wilson Chin
Costume & Puppet Design: Tilly Grimes
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Sound Design: Mikaal Sulaiman

THE SLOW ROOM

Director: Annie Dorsen
Scenic Design: Marsha Ginsberg
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd and Cheyenne Sykes
Dramaturg: Tom Sellar
Costume Design: Robert Croghan
Sound Design: Ian Douglas-Moore
Producer: Natasha Katerinopoulos

Photo by Maria Baranova

at Performance Space New York

ARTNEY JACKSON

Williamstown Theatre Festival, Nikos Stage
By James Anthony Tyler
Directed by Laura Savia
Ray Anthony Thomas as Artney

Set: Arnulfo Maldonado
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Costumes: Emilio Sosa
Sound: Stowe Nelson

Photo by Daniel Rader

ORLANDO

Fordham University
Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe

photos by Edward T. Morris

SEASCAPE
QUEEN FOR A DAY

By Michael Ricigliano
Directed by John Gould Rubin
St. Clements Theatre

Set Design: Andreea Mincic
Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd
Costume Design: Bobby Tilley
Sound Design: Leon Rothenberg
Photo by Russ Rowland

YOU ACROSS FROM ME

Mother's Blessing
directed by Jessica Fisch
by Dipika Guha

performed by the actors of the 2017–2018 Professional Training Company
Photo by Bill Brymer

GOD SAID THIS

by Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by Morgan Gould

2018 Humana Festival
photo by Jonathan Roberts

WE REMAIN PREPARED

Satori Group + ARTBARN
Seattle, Washington @ The Georgetown Steam Plant

Directed by Caitlin Sullivan & Jess Smith
2016

 

SUNDOWN YELLOW MOON

ARS NOVA + WP THEATRE
By: Rachel Bonds, music by The Bengsons
Directed by Anne Kauffmann
McGinn Cazale Theatre

Set Design: Lauren Helpern
Co-Lighting Design: Isabella Byrd & Matt Frey
Costumes: Jessica Pabst
Sound: Leah Gelpe

Returning to Albert Joseph

Satori Group, at Williams College
by Spike Friedman
Director: Caitlin Sullivan
Sets: Cate McCrea
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Sound: Eben Hoffer
Costume: Greta Wilson

HAMLET, A VERSION

Written by Boris Akunin
translated by Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Directed by Irina Gachechiladze
ST. CLEMENTS THEATRE

Set Design: Cate McCrea
Lighting: Isabella Byrd
Sound: Sam Kusnetz & Alana Jacoby

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