BIOGRAPHY
Originally from the UK, Ms Sissons currently lives and works in NYC and Connecticut. Her award winning designs for the stage have taken her around the US and internationally since graduating from Central St Martin’s (BA) and The Royal College of Art (MA) in London. For fifteen years she was a professor of design at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Drama. Her credits include: three time exhibitor at the Prague Quadrennial for theatre and performance, she is a Fulbright Specialist, as well as Drama Desk and Helen Hayes nominee amongst others. In addition to designing for theatre and opera, Sissons holds an MFA in painting from the New York Studio School. She is currently painting in a studio in Dumbo with the NYSS Artist in Residence program. Her work was recently in a group show “Being Human” at The Painting Center in NYC. She has exhibited works on paper in a group show with the CREST Collective at the 68 Jay Street Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Her paintings were included in the juried show at Silvermine Galleries, 72nd and 74th A-ONE Exhibition in 2022 and 2024 where she is a Guild member. During the pandemic she co-created an online painting course for refugee women in the Houston area with WRAP.
Theatrical Representation:
Russ Rosensweig, Agent
Summit Entertainment Group
10 Potter Hill Drive
Guilford, CT 06437
russ@summitentertainmentgroup.com