Last week I put up a post listing female directors in Philadelphia so that next time someone is having trouble coming up with some they know exactly where to look.
Today I’m doing the same for designers. These are folks that live and work here in the city (with a couple folks recently moved that folks I polled felt super strong about including anyway) and are ordered only by alphabetical last name. I’ve divided the list up by category and put people in multiple places when they are multifaceted designers.
I’ll keep updating this, so feel free to send me more names.
And if you want a link to your portfolio or site, send that along too.
– A
Set:
- Erica Hoelscher
- Meghan Jones
- Mimi Lien
- Maiko Matsushima
- Sara Outing
- Cory Palmer
- Maura Roche
- Lisi Stoessel
Lights:
- Kate Beutler
- Madison Cario
- Angela Coleman
- Oona Curley
- Alyssandra Docherty
- Janet Embree
- Lily Fossner
- Shelley Hicklin
- Amanda Jensen
- Leigh Mumford
- Maria Shaplin
- Robin Stamey
- Laila Kjørsvik Swanson
- Jessica Wallace
Sound:
- Susan Adelizzi
- Elizabeth Atkinson
- Tina Brock
- Karin Graybsh
- Ren Manley
- Ashley Turner
Props:
- Jen Burkhart
- Ginger Dale
- Natalia de la Torre
- Amanda Hatch
- Alisa Sikora Kleckner
- Ren Manley
- Amy Radbill
- Gwen Rooker
- Alice Yorke
Puppets:
- Alisa Sikora Kleckner
- Lorna Howley
- Gina Leigh
- Sara Outing
- Martina Plag
- Gwen Rooker
- Robin Stamey
- Danyata Ta
Video:
- Janelle Kauffman
Costumes:
- Ameera Ansari
- Becca Austin
- Meredith Boring
- Marie Chimet
- Kelly Cobb
- Katie Coble
- Rachel Coon
- Natalia de la Torre
- Kate Edelson
- Mary Folino
- Katherine Fritz
- Jamie Grace-Duff
- Colleen Grady
- Millie Hiibel
- Erica Hoelscher
- Marla Jurglanis
- Rebecca Kanach
- Jillian Rose Keys
- Alisa Sikora Kleckner
- Maiko Matsushima
- Rosemary McKelvey
- Fiona Mulligan
- Lauren Perigard
- Julia Poisze
- Regina Rizzo
- Alison Roberts
- Robin Shane
- Susan Smythe
- Janis Stefanowicz
- Jennielynn Streed
- Laila Kjørsvik Swanson
- Charlotte Chloe Fox Wind
- Amanda Wolff
- Abbie Wysor
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Just a heads up – Natalia’s in grad school at the U of Ohio right now.
Yeah, I know. But so many people mentioned her and I had such positive experiences with her amazing designs on PURR, PULL, REIGN and TEMPEST that it felt weird not to include her, if only for posterity.
Fair enough. To be honest, I think it was just my deep-seated bitterness about not being able to hire her for my next project seeping out in comment form.
Adrienne, you should add Susan Adelizzi and Ashley Turner to your list of Phila sound designers.
Updated and added!
Thanks for including me on my list! Please link to my website, http://www.robinishane.com….thanks!!
You got it.
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Hi, thanks for having me on this list! Great thing you’ve got going here.
Could you link my website?
http://www.alyssandradocherty.com
Thanks!
-Aly