• STAGE DESIGNS

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  • COSTUME DESIGNS

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  • PERFORMANCE ART

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  • ART WORK

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  • SCENIC PAINTING

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NORA MARLOW SMITH is a Brooklyn-based Scenic and Costume Designer. She teaches Design at the University at Albany (SUNY) in the Department of Music and Theatre.

She completed her MFA in Stage and Costume design at Northwestern University. She also holds a Teaching Certificate from the Searle Center for Teaching and Learning at Northwestern University, as well as a BA in Set Design and English Literature from Mount Holyoke College. She is a member of the Communications Honor Society Lambda Pi Eta. Nora is the 2022 recipient of the Michael E. Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration.

Nora has a strong commitment to social justice and advocacy. Her goal as a designer is to support the telling of stories by historically oppressed voices and uplift works by the global majority.

Her design philosophy is rooted in a formalist tradition of physical expression, powerful imagery, and large, gestural spaces. Her background comes from sculpture and painting, as well as literary analysis and critical reading. The combination of these things, when applied with strong dramaturgical research and design theory, as well as a deep collaboration practice, brings out bold and intensely empathic spaces.