Luke Cantarella is excited to be working at American Stage for the first time. He has designed scenery and video for 100s of productions at theaters around the country including The Atlantic Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, Yale Repertory Theater, ART, Seattle Rep, The MUNY, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Sante Fe Opera, The Repertory Theater of St Louis and many more. Upcoming projects include new productions of The Cunning Little Vixen for the Des Moines Metro Opera, Of Mice and Men for the Houston Grand Opera, and the new American opera The Woman with Eyes Closed for the Pittsburgh Opera. Luke co-designed the US National Exhibit for the Prague Quadriennial in 2023. Recent film and television projects include Jules, Call Jane, Players, The Plot Against America and The Summer I Turned Pretty. Luke co-authored the book Ethnography by Design: Scenographic Experiments in Fieldwork and is the Chair of Film and Screen Studies at Pace University. IG: lukecantarel lalukecantarella.com