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Meghan Raham Professor Performing Arts

Degrees
MFA, Stage Design, Northwestern University
BA, Theatre, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Bio
Meghan Raham is a Set and Costume Designer with a strong interest in the development of new work. Recent design work includes: My Lord, What a Night (Ford's Theatre), ((astronomia nova)) (Smithsonian American Art Museum), JQA (Arena Stage), You Got Older (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Second City's She The People, and Nilaja Sun's Pike St (Woolly Mammoth Theater), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Ford's Theatre), Master Harold... and the Boys, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night Alive, and Fool for Love (Round House Theatre-- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Helen Hayes nominated for "Outstanding Set Design"), The Chosen (Barrington Stage Company), Death of a Salesman, Little Shop of Horrors, Circle Mirror Transformation, and others (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), The Aliens, Red Speedo (Studio Theatre), The Conference of the Birds, District Merchants, Romeo and Juliet (Folger Theatre), S/he is Nancy Joe (Zero Point International Festival of Physical Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic), Venice (Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles-- nominated for LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards in two categories: "Best Set Design" and "Best Costume Design"), Fedra (Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago), FRANKENSTEIN with the Hypocrites at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, CLAY (Lincoln Center Theater LCT3, Kansas City Repertory Theatre 2008), The Borderland (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Wedding Play (About Face and Steppenwolf Theaters), A Big Blue Nail (Victory Gardens Theater). She was a Company Member at The Building Stage in Chicago, where she designed costumes for MOBY-DICK and co-production designed NOIR and The Ring Cycle. Her work was exhibited at the 2006 USITT Young Designers' Forum, she is the recipient of a 2003 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Costume Design Fellowship as well as a 2010 Princess Grace Foundation Theatre Honoraria, and she served as Co-Director and Curator for the United States student exhibit to the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design in 2015.
See Also
Performing Arts Department
Design Portfolio
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • PERF-261 Introduction to Stage Design

  • PERF-364 Costume Design

Partnerships & Affiliations

  • USA LOCAL 829
    Member

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities