Yelena Babinskaya
Scenography
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Professional design experience:
*color denotes productions canceled or impacted by COVID-19
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Position: Show/Season: Supervisor/Director: Company/ Venue:
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Lighting Designer Rogers & Hammerstine's Chris Stewart The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
Cinderella
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Lighting Designer A Chorus Line Jeff Whiting Phoenix Theatre Company
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Scenic, Lighting & She Kills Monsters Collin Bressie Long Beach City College
Projection
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Scenic & Lighting Design Lucy Loves Desi Brendon Fox LA Theatre Works National Tour
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Scenic, Lighting & De Donde? Anthony Carierro Long Beach City College
Projection
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Scenic Designer Bad World Sarah Andrews Crave Theatre (Portland OR)
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Assistant Who's Afraid of
Lighting Designer Virginia Woolf Elizabeth Harper Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles CA)
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Assistant
Lighting Designer Paradise Blue Alan Edwards Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles CA)
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Production Manager 2021-2022 Season Dr. Bradley Griffin Pepperdine University, Multiple Venues
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Lighting Designer Winter's Tale Hollace Starr Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
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Lighting Designer Mamma Mia Kelly Todd Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
Technical Producer Ugly Lies the Bone Cathy Thomas-Grant Pepperdine University - Virtual
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Technical Producer As You Like It Hollace Starr Pepperdine University - Virtual
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Technical Producer Musical Cabaret Kelly Todd Pepperdine University - Virtual
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Technical Producer Black Boys, Polar Bears Nicolas Few Pepperdine University - Virtual
and Prairie Fringed Orchids
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Production Manager 2020-2021 Season Dr. Bradley Griffin Pepperdine University, Multiple Venues
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Scenic Designer The Wild Party Kristin Towers-Rowles The Morgan - Wixson
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Scenic Designer The Wolves Anthony Carreiro Long Beach City College
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Lighting Designer The Cherry Orchard Hollace Starr Pepperdine University, Smothers Theater
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Production Manager Dido & Aeneas/Gianni Schicchi Dr. Keith Coclough Pepperdine University, Multiple Venues
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Production Manager 2019-2020 Season Dr. Bradley Griffin Pepperdine University, Multiple Venues
Lighting Designer Ragtime the Musical Kelly Todd Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
Lighting Designer/ UCLA Summer Institute Perry Daniels/Vikas Adams UCLA’s 1340 Studio (Los Angeles CA)
Technical Supervisor APSI 2018, 2019
Production Manager Die Fledermaus Dr. Keith Coclough Pepperdine University, Multiple Venues
Scenic Designer Love/Sick Anthony Carreiro Long Beach City College
Lighting Designer Taming of the Shrew Scott Alan Smith Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
Production Manager 2019-2020 Season Dr. Bradley Griffin Pepperdine University, Multiple Venues
Lighting Designer Curtains the Musical Kelly Todd Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
Scenic Designer Salome Sarah Underwood Saviano Long Beach City College
Production Manager 2017-2018 Season Dr. Bradley Griffin Pepperdine University, Multiple Venues
Production Manager Die Fledermaus Dr. Keith Coclough Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
Lighting Designer Medea Dr. Bradley Griffin Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
Lighting Designer Big Fish the Musical Cathy Thomas-Grant Pepperdine University, Smoothers Theater
Lighting Designer Grease 2015/ Joy Johnson Owensboro Dance Theater/
Aladdin 2014 RiverPark Performing Art Center (KY)
Lighting Designer The Nutcracker Ballet ‘14|’15 Joy Johnson Owensboro Dance Theater/
RiverPark Performing Art Center (KY)
Lighting Director/TD Monger Barak Marshall Chutzpah! Festival
Norman Rothstein Theater (Vancouver Canada)
Asst.Lighting Designer Full/Still/Hungry Ana Maria Alvarez Ford Amphitheater (CA)
Asst. Lighting Designer A Midsummer’s Night Dream David “Gurn” Kaniski Palms Hotel and Casino Las Vegas (NV)
A PLAYBOY Party
Lighting Designer/ UCLA Summer Institute Patricia Harter UCLA’s 1340 Studio (Los Angeles CA)
Technical Supervisor 2009/2010/2011
Asst. Lighting Designer The Light in The Piazza Darrell J. Clark Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities
Asst. Lighting Designer She Loves Me Darrell J. Clark Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center (CA)
Asst. Lighting Designer GlowFEST David “Gurn” Kaniski Disneyland Resort’s California Adventure (CA)
Lighting Designer Tracing Sonny Pamela Moore Theater Unleashed
The Avery Schriber (North Hollywood CA)
Costume Designer Secret Garden Mark Kollokoff GCHS(Greeley CO)
Scenic Designer 4:48 Psychosis/ Phillip Kelly Theater Unleashed
Scenic Designer All in the Timing Carlos Martinez The Sherry Theater (CA)
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Teaching experience:
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Lecture Classes:
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Lighting Lab
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Hands-on practical applications of ​lighting technologies
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Drafting for the Theater
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Hand Drafting and Vectorworks basics​
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Rendering Techniques for the Theater
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Introduction to various materials and rendering styles used for theatrical visual communication​
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Lighting Design and Technology
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Lighting Design Basics and Practical applications​
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Stage Management
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Common practices for Stage Management and practical applications​
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Stage Management 2
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Advance practices as they apply to Opera Productions​
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Production Management for International Tours
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Special Topic on Touring for Edinburgh​
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Seminar for Production Design Students
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Tips and tricks for navigating the working world of design and production​
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Student Mentorship
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Design support and mentorship for ​student designers and stage managers
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Educational design experience:
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Position: Show/Season: Supervisor/Director: Company/ Venue:
Lighting Designer The last days of Judas Iscariot Michael Hackett UCLA’s The Little Theater (CA)
Lighting Designer Midsummer Night’s Dream Joel Bishoff UCLA’s The Little Theater (CA)
Asst. Costume Designer Homer in Cyberspace Mel Shapiro UCLA’s The Little Theater (CA)
Asst. Costume Designer Devils Neil Peter Jampolis UCLA’s Freud Theater (CA)
Costume Designer Top Girls Tracy Salter UNC’s Norton Theater (Greeley CO)
Costume Designer The Incredible True Adventures Anne Toewe UNC’s Langworthy Theater (Greeley CO)
Scenic Designer Lysistrata Mary Jo Duprey UCLA’s 1340 (Los Angeles CA)
Scenic Designer Urinetown Anne Toewe UNC’s Norton Theater (Greeley CO)
Scenic Designer No, No, Nanette John Leonard UNC’s Norton Theater (Greeley CO)