ABOUT

Suzu Sakai is a NYC & Tokyo based freelance production designer and artistic director. Working and having experience in theater production & design in NYC, Tokyo, and in other large cities, she has a passion for all aspects of artistic development and collaboration, as well as storytelling through new mediums in digital art & media.
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Recent productions include: Constellations (Forestburgh Playhouse, NY), more, more, more & Soft Apples (Yale Cabaret, CT), and Straight White Men (Southwark Playhouse, UK), including festival shows in New York as well as working in production management at PARCO Inc. and space design in the digital art & media industry in Tokyo. She has assisted Broadway designer Anna Louizos, as well as other off-Broadway designers in both set & lighting.

Suzu holds a B.A. in Theater from Smith College, MA, and is currently working on her MFA in Theater Design at The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
Born in Tokyo, growing up in California, Chiang Mai, and Hiroshima, Suzu is passionate about education and cultural issues around the globe, and hopes to bridge the world through artistic storytelling.

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CV

2022

Tempo by Harron Atkins // The Master's Tools by Zora Howard / Directed by Ashley Thomas

there is a thing at the end of the loop by Dylan Guerra / Directed by Christina Franklin 

Constellations by Nick Payne / Directed by Robin Levine

more, more, more by Stefanie Kuo / Directed by Stefanie Kuo & Jisun Kim

soft apples by Doug Robinson / Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

Set & Lighting Design / Yale Cabaret (CT, USA)

Set Design / Yale Cabaret (CT, USA)

Set Design / Forestburgh Playhouse (NY, USA)

Lighting Design / Yale Cabaret (CT, USA)​

Set Design / Yale Cabaret (CT, USA)​

2021

Today is My Birthday by Susan Soon He Stanton / Directed by Mina Morita

Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee / Directed by Steve Kunis

Associate Set Design / Yale Repertory Theater (CT, USA)​

Set Design / Southwark Playhouse (London, UK)​

~ 2020

Virtual Identity / Directed by Suzu Sakai

Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs / Directed by Sam Rush

Opera: Alexander's Feast by Handel / Directed by Steve Kunis

Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman / Directed by Hannah Sachs

Creative Direction / Studio Bybros Akasaka (Tokyo, JPN)​

Set Design / New Century Theater (MA, USA)​

Lighting Design / Harvard University (MA, USA)​

Set & Lighting Design / Smith College Theater (MA, USA)​