With my dog, Atlas

Myra is an artist interested in maximizing the uniquely beautiful and deliberate fact that theatre requires people to congregate together.  She is interested in work which connects the performer and audience; to immerse, wrap, and contain the discussion between orator and recipient in one environment.   

Myra is a Scenic Designer working from New York City.  Myra has worked professionally in both New York and regional theaters across America. She is an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Myra’s Northwestern design credits include Machinal (Louis Theatre), A Chorus Line and Peter and the Starcatcher (Barber Theatre), as well as, Eurydice and The Flick (Wallis Theatre). Myra’s other design credits include Sunday in the Park with George (SUNY Cortland) and The Threepenny Opera (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School NYU) and The Children's Hour (Webster Studio Theatre). 

Myra was honored with the Scenic Design Hay Fellowship with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she assisted on the 2015 season: A Longs Days Journey Into Night,  Fingersmith (world premiere) , and Antony and Cleopatra.  Myra has worked as an assistant with Yale Baroque Opera Project, Prospect Theatre Company, Albany Park Theatre Project, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Repertory Theater of St. Louis, The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and City Theatre Summer Shorts, Miami. 

She has has her BFA in Scenic Design from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.