Frederica Nascimento,
Resident Artist, She/Her/Hers
AT A NOISE WITHIN:
2020-2021 Season: Scenic Design: Alice in Wonderland
Previous Seasons: Scenic Design: The Winter’s Tale, Argonautika, Othello, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Henry V, Ah, Wilderness!, The Maids, Arcadia, Six Characters in Search of an Author, All My Sons, Antigone, Julius Caesar, The Threepenny Opera, The Tempest, Tartuffe
ELSEWHERE: Works in theatre, opera, dance, and film. Directors include José Álvaro Morais, Manoel de Oliveira, Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, Rogério de Carvalho, João Canijo, Ruben Polendo, Chris Fields, Simon Levy, Laurie Woolery, Johannes Wieland, Larry Biederman, Jonathan Fox, Shishir Kurup, Steven Robman, and Shirley Jo Finney among others. Frederica is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and collaborates with Evidence Room/Bart DeLorenzo.
EDUCATION: Awarded the Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship, received her MFA from Tisch/NYU with the J.S. Seidman Graduating Award for Excellence in Design. Graduated from Lisbon Theatre and Film School and from the Faculty of Architecture/Technical University of Lisbon. She is a scholar with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation, member of the Portuguese Architects Association, and United Scenic Artists USA 829, IATSE. Frederica is faculty at Pierce College (Scenic Design, Stagecraft, Production, Introduction to Theatre Design) and a guest designer (Scenic and Costume Design) at CSUN. Nominated for a 2018 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Award in Scenic Design (Large Theater) for Henry V – ANW