Hello, it’s Carolyn Mraz. I am a set designer and theatermaker living in Los Angeles after 15 years in Brooklyn. I specialize in inventive yet dramaturgically-based visual design for live performance and new works especially. I want to tell current stories to current audiences. How can I help visually communicate to audiences here and now? This is my drive.

I have collaborated on over 70 world premiere new works such as off-Broadway and regional productions, immersive events, performance art, and international tours, including some favorite design challenges: a magic show, a spaceship, a sexy lounge on a decommissioned ferry, a rock musical staged in a church sanctuary, and a collapsible performance tent.

I am a longtime associated artist of Target Margin Theater and Clubbed Thumb in NYC and A Host of People in Detroit, and have earned 5 Henry Hewes design award nominations. I believe in the transformative power of curiosity and currently teach at California State University Fullerton.

Oberlin and NYU alum. Proud union member Local USA 829, IATSE. Grateful cat-parent to the beloved Myrrh.