Nitsan Scharf (he/they) is a second year M.F.A. candidate in Live Design & Production, specializing in Integrated Media. His research is in creative coding, interaction design, and embodied human-computer interaction, with a specific emphasis on queer and trans modalities. They are a designer, programmer, and animator, working in theatre, dance, opera, and installation. He received his B.A. in Theatre from the University of Maryland in 2018. Design credits at UT include The Ghosts of Versailles, This is Our Youth, óxido, Sanctuary City, and tooth fairy. Recent design credits outside of UT include Murder on the Orient Express (Syracuse Stage), Over/Under (Extreme Lengths Productions), Rock Paper Scissors (The Welders), The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield (ExPats Theatre), The Ascension Project (Uprooted Dance), A Chorus Within Her (Theater Alliance), My aMeriCa (Montgomery College) and RESILIENCE and Trés | Tres (Ars Nova). Recent associate design and animation work includes The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep), We Are Your Robots (Theatre for a New Audience/Rattlestick), The Queen of Versailles (Emerson Colonial Theatre), The Dream Machine Experience (Lincoln Center), and Becoming a Man (A.R.T.).
