Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Renée is a Set Designer and Scenic Artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. She is currently the Lecturer of Set Design and the resident Scenic Artist at Brown University, and freelances at professional and educational theater companies around the state and country. She is also the Set Designer and Technical Production Manager for La Musica Lirica, an educational opera program based in Novafeltria, Italy. She holds an MFA in Production Design from Michigan State University, and a BFA in Design & Technical Theatre from the University of Rhode Island.

Her scenographic design aesthetic balances a sense of heightened poetic visuals with an elegant practicality. Her design method is heavily rooted in the collaborative process, which results in designs that are tailored to the technical needs and the artistic vision of each production. She specializes in creating designs for new works and re-imagining the established canon.