Laura Mernoffscenic Artist
279 President Ave. Providence, RI 02906 /401-351-5602/[email protected]
www.lauramernoff.com
UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS, Local 829: Journeyman Scenic Artist
IATSE, Local 481 Studio Mechanics: Props & Set-Dressing
(able to work in construction, greens, picture cars, wardrobe)
Scenic Designer
ALL CHILDREN’S THEATRE @ ST. ANDREW'S, Barrington, RI "Pippi Longstocking"
JOHNSON & WALES, Providence, RI “Noises Off”
BARKER PLAYHOUSE, Providence, RI
“Carnival” “Arsenic and Old Lace” “Nunsense” “Enchanted April”
Resident Designer for ALL CHILDREN’S THEATRE (at PPAC & Vartan Gregorian School), Providence, RI
Various shows incl.: “Wizard of Oz”, “Les Miserables” “Zink” “Twelfth Night” “Pippi Longstocking”
Wrenn Goodrum, Joanne Fayan, directors
Resident Designer for NATHANAEL GREENE MIDDLE SCHOOL, Providence, RI 2001-Present
Various shows incl: “Frankenstein” “Robin Hood” “Oliver” “Mill Girls” “Dracula” (Jacob Kenner, dir.)
Resident Designer for JEWISH THEATRE ENSEMBLE, Providence, RI 1997-2006
Various shows including: “Milk and Honey” “Crossing Delancey” “The Sabbath Peddlar” “Annie”
Scenic Designer for RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN theatre department 1993-1996
“Hot L Baltimore” “The Foreigner” “Beyond Therapy” Jacob Kenner, director
All positions included drafting, building, painting, propping, set-dressing.
Scenic Artist/Props/Set Dressing
FILM/TV
SCENIC ARTIST/PROPS/SET DRESSING IN FILM & TV
The Society (2018) Set dresser
Honest Thief (2018) Set Dresser
Jungleland (2018) Set Dresser
The Discovery (2016) Scenic
Nos4A2 (2018) Wardrobe
Person of Interest (2015) Props
The Deuce (2015) Props
The Family (2015) Set Dresser
How to be Single (2015) Greens
The Devil You Know (2015) Set Dresser
Brotherhood (2008) Picture Cars, props
What Doesn't Kill You/Real Men Cry (2008) Charge Painter
Underdog (2007) Greens
Normal Adolescent Behavior (2007) Scenic Artist
Waterfront (2006)Scenic Artist
Hard Luck (2006) Scenic Artist
The Clique (2006) Charge Painter
Me Myself and Irene(2000) Scenic Artist
Outside Providence (1999)Scenic Artist
Celtic Pride (1996)Set designer
Blown Away (1994)Scenic Artist
Mortal Thoughts (1991) Scenic Artist
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) Scenic Artist
THEATER
RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE Prop Master 2016
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLANDProp Master 2016
THEATER-BY-THE-SEAProp Master 2016
SCENIC ART STUDIOS, Writing Milford, Connecticut. Union Scenic Artist 2015
"King and I" (Vivian Beaumont Th.) "On the 20th Century" (American Airlines Th., NYC)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Writing is Live Playwriting Festival. Prop Master
YANKEE STUDIOS (via THEATER-BY-THE-SEA), Charge Painter for Festival Ballet's "Nutcracker" and Charge Painter for "Singing in the Rain"
ROYAL OPERA, London England “Cyrano de Bergerac
OLD GLOBE THEATRE, San Diego “Jake’s Women” Tony Straiges, Designer
JUILLIARD OPERA CENTER, New York, NY “L’Amico Fritz” “Holiday” “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” “Manon” “Petrified Forest” “Major Barbara” “Love for Love”
Franco Colavecchia, Ming Cho Lee, Doug Stein, Hugh Landwere, Ken Foy, Designers
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE “Rashomon” “Member of the Wedding” Mina Albergo, Designer
SPOLETO FESTIVAL, Charleston, S.C.
“Monday After the Miracle” John Lee Beatty, Designer, “Lady Macbeth”
PAPERMILL PLAYHOUSE, Millburn, NJ
“Naughty Marietta” Michael Anania, Designer
OPERA COMPANY OF BOSTON
“Der Freischutz” Helen Pond, Herbert Senn, Designers “Turandot” Ming Cho Lee, Des.
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER, Cambridge, Mass.
“Big River” Heidi Landesman, des. “Traveler in the Dark”
Tommy Brent’s THEATER BY THE SEA, Matunuck, RI (five seasons as Charge Painter)
Includ:“My One and Only” “Sugar Babies” “Sweet Charity” “On Your Toes” “Baby” “Evita”
David Weller, Michael Meister, Dan Conway, designers
WPA THEATER, New York, NY “Twenty Fingers, Twenty Toes” Edward Gianfrancesco, designer
SCENIC STUDIOS
SPAETH DESIGN, New York, NY
Various industrial and display work. Charge Painter for Lord & Taylor and Saks Xmas windows.
Michael Meister, Richard Pollard, designers
THEATER MACHINE, Patterson, New Jersey
New York City Opera tour “Madame Butterfly” Peter Dean Beck, Designer
SCENIC CENTRAL, Brooklyn, New York Big Kahuna club; “Double Dare” tv show
BRUCE & BRUCE SCENERY, New York, NY “A Christmas Carol” “Taming of the Shrew”
Karen Edmonds, Andrew Jackness, designers
EDUCATION
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Providence, RI Masters in Architecture 1994
BARNARD COLLEGE, New York, NY B.A. Italian Studies 1982
LESTER POLAKOV STUDIO, New York, NY Scenic Art studies in painting, scenic design and prop and mask-making
COMPETITIVE GRANTS
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts – Project Grant 2011
Ruach Grant, Jewish Community Day School 2010
