Krista Smith

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

2021 World Premier & NYTimes Critic’s Pick

2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Offie Award Winner

Written and Performed by Arturo Luís Soria

Directed by Danilo Gambini

Scenery: Stephanie Osin Cohen

Costumes: Haydee Zelideth

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Kathy Ruvuna

Photos: Andrew Soria

By Suzan-Lori Parks

Directed by Lindsay Smiling

Co-Directed by Mark Wade

“A tall thematic ask, beautifully rendered…

Visually, the production is gorgeous. Matthew Zumbo’s ambitiously designed set fills the space with the messy detritus of history alongside clever, haunting nods to Lincoln. Larry Fowler’s cheeky sound design helps the production balance a zippy tone with a profound seriousness of intent. Krista Smith’s lighting and Leigh Ivory Clark Paradise’s costumes are both highly effective and stunning. This is a wonderfully realized production of a rare work by an American master.” -Josh Herren

Scenery by Matthew Zumbo

Costumes by Leigh Ivory Clark

Lighting by Krista Smith

Sound by Larry Fowler

Photos: Johanna Austin

Spurred by George Balanchine’s brief yet pivotal 1933 touchdown in Hartford, Connecticut, dancer, writer, and choreographer Emily Coates gathered artifacts of his lingering presence in archives throughout the region. Drawing on her background as a former member of New York City Ballet, Coates creates an unexpected portrait of Balanchine’s choreographic legacy, working in collaboration with Ain Gordon (director), Derek Lucci (performer, co-creator), Charles Burnham (violinist, composer), Melvin Chen (pianist), Krista Smith (lighting design), Reid & Harriet (costume design), and Henry Seth (dancer) to collage far-flung remains: unanswered letters, lost ballets, old photographs, music exercises, early muses, and more. Filled with hidden movements and quieted voices, Tell Me Where It Comes From meditates on the spark that propels art into existence.

The project was commissioned by Works & Process to a sold-out premiere at Guggenheim New York.

Photography by Maria Baranova and Adonis Giantamedes, courtesy of The Wadsworth, Hartford, Connecticut.

The American Musical

Jackie Soro & Pax Ressler in partnership with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Director: MK Tuomanen
Music Director: Pax Ressler
Producer: Carlos Diaz Stoop
Production Manager: Taylor Jedlinski
Production Coordinator: CD Kincade
Sound Designer: Natali Merrill
Lighting Designer: Krista Smith
Scenic and Props Designer: Chris Haig
Set Built by: Philadelphia Scenic Works
Projection Designer: Taj Rauch
Costume Designer: Rebecca Kanach
Video Content Creator: Nia Benjamin
Musical Consultant: Justin Yoder
Additional Projection Design: Jackie Soro

Musicians
Bass: Mel Hsu
Guitar: Corinne Kite-Dean
Percussion: Mel Regn

Photos @Johanna AustinArt

Scenes from Country Life

Adapted By: Dmitry Krymov

“Extraordinary” — Helen Shaw, The New York Times

“The wildly inventive director Dmitry Krymov and his company, KrymovLab NYC, return with an interpretation of Chekhov’s story of stagnancy and longing in the Russian countryside. Their Vanya, they say, is “a grotesque elegy, a wasteland vaudeville” made for a world on fire.” — Sara Holdren, The New York Magazine

LA MAMA - ELLEN STEWART THEATRE

Director: Dmitry Krymov

Production Design: Emona Stoykova

Dramaturg: Shari Perkins

Puppet Design: Leah Ogawa

Costume Design: Luna Gomberg

Lighting Design: Krista Smith

Sound Design: Denis Zabiyaka 

Projection Designer: Yana Biryukova

Photo credits:  M. Levitskaya

(or A Few Ways of Keeping a Child from Running Around at His Great Uncle’s Funeral)

By: Dmitry Krymov

“One of the world’s finest theatermakers,” says The New York Times. His “Theatre of the Artist” weaves together visual art, stagecraft, and storytelling into what Vulture calls “some of the most imaginative, aesthetically liberated theater in the world.”

LA MAMA - ELLEN STEWART THEATRE

Director: Dmitry Krymov

Production Design: Emona Stoykova

Puppet Design: Leah Ogawa

Lighting Design: Krista Smith

Costume Design: Luna Gomberg

Sound Design: Denis Zabiyaka 

Magic Consultant: Jesse Freedman

Photo credits: S. Pisano, M. Levitskaya

La MaMa 2024, 2026 Productions

Craiova International Shakespeare Festival in Romania 2026

"A Stunning ‘King Lear’ That Reveals, Finally, a King in Full" --NY Times Critic's Pick, Helen Shaw, The New York Times

"Riveting...unmissable...stripped-down, beautifully envisioned production..." --"Best Things To Do," Sara Holdren, New York Magazine

Adaptor and Director Karin Coonrod

Composer Frank London

Costume Designer Oana Botez

Paper Crowns Tine Kindermann

Lighting Design Krista Smith

Assistant Lighting Designer: Ethan Feil

Sound Design Tye Hunt Fitzgerald

Photos: Marina Levitskaya & Shin Kurokawa

Arden Theatre CO.

By Stefano Massini

Adapted by Ben Power

Directed by Terrence J. Nolen

Associate Director: Jonathan Silver

Assistant Director: Casie Girvin

Scenic & Projection Design: Jorge Cousineau

Costume Design: Asaki Kuruma

Lighting Design : Krista Smith

Sound Design: Christopher Colucci

Photos: Wide Eyed Studios

LA MAMA - ELLEN STEWART THEATRE

Based on “Hills Like White Elephants”, “Canary For One” by E.Hemingway and “Desire Under the Elms” by Eugene O’Neill

Adaptation by: Dmitry Krymov

Director: Dmitry Krymov

Production Design: Emona Stoykova

Lighting Design: Krista Smith

Costume Design: Luna Gomberg

Sound Design: Kate Marvin

Photo credits: S. Pisano, M. Levitskaya

“You can see some of the most imaginative, aesthetically liberated, and gloriously thoughtfully messy theater in the world.”

— VULTURE

“It is safe to say there is nothing else like this on New York stages right now.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

Written & Performed by Chris Davis

Directed by MK Tuomanen

Choreography Campbell Tosney

Sound Adriano Shaplin

Lighting Krista Smith

Narrated by Severin Blake

Stage manager - Randi Alexis Hickey

Photos: Emilie Krause

LA MAMA - ELLEN STEWART THEATRE

By A. Pushkin

Adaptation by: Dmitry Krymov

Director: Dmitry Krymov

Production Design: Emona Stoykova

Lighting Design: Krista Smith

Projection Design: Yana Biryukova

Costume Design: Luna Gomberg

Sound Design: Kate Marvin 

Puppet Design: Leah Ogawa, Luna Gomberg

This productions was also shown as part of the “UNDER THE RADAR” Festival in Jan 2024.

Photo credits: B. Sharp, S. Pisano, M. Levitskaya

 “It is safe to say there is nothing else like this on New York stages right now.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

“You can see some of the most imaginative, aesthetically liberated, and gloriously thoughtfully messy theater in the world.”

— VULTURE

“Spleen is the word, we are told, for the depression that afflicts the hero of Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin.” And in Dmitry Krymov’s “Big Trip,” at La Mama, spleen is anatomized in so delightfully that you will stop suffering from it. Theater as sweet relief from a dark, dark world.”

— BEN BRANTLEY

Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive by Selina Fillinger

Arden Theatre Co.

Director: Jennifer Childs
Assistant Director: Megan Bellwoar
Scenic Designer: Colin McIlvaine
Lighting Designer: Krista Smith
Costume Designer: Ariel Wang
Sound Designer: Elizabeth Atkinson
Fight Choreographer/Intimacy: Eli Lynn
Stage Manager: Tom Shotkin

Photos: Wide Eyed Studios

Auburn University

Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater

Music by Duncan Sheik

Directed by Andrew Schwartz

Choreography: Jeri Dickey

Scenery: Afsoon Pajoufar

Costumes: Bailey Hammett

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Anthony Narciso

Photos: Henry Eiland Photography

by Bertolt Brecht
Based on stories by Hella Wuolijoki
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Directed by Rebecca Wright

Set Design by Dahlia Al-Habieli
Costume Design by Sydney Maresca
Lighting Design by Krista Smith
Sound& Music Design by Emily Bate
Photos: Chris Kayden

Weston Theater Company

By Heidi Schreck

Directed by Raz Golden

Scenic Design : Christopher and Justin Swader

Costume Design: Dan Wang

Lighting Design : Krista Smith

Sound Design: Christopher Darbassie

Photos: Rob Aft & Justin Swader

WILMA THEATER

BY BERTOLT BRECHT

TRANSLATED BY WENDY ARONS

ADAPTED BY TONY KUSHNER

DIRECTED BY JUSTIN JAIN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: CAT RAMIREZ

SCENERY: STEVEN DUFALA

COSTUMES: ARIEL WANG

LIGHTING: KRISTA SMITH

SOUND: EUGENE LEW

PHOTOS: JOHANNA AUSTIN

Tanaquil Márquez Playwright/Director

Eliana Fabiyi Co-Creator

Dahlia El Habieli Scenic Designer

Krista Smith Lighting Designer

Liz Atkinson Sound Designer

Levonne Lindsay Costume Designer

Mike Long Video/Projection Designer

Liz McDonald Props Designer

Francisca Muñoz Performer

Bi Jean Ngo Performer

Yajaira Paredes Performer

David M. Raine Performer

Maria Del Pilar Rodriguez Performer

Robyn Unger Performer

Alfonso Valdespino Artistic & Development Assistant

Jennifer Childs Artistic Director

Alejandro Utria Community Engagement

Alexis Wells Stage Manager

Triad Stage

By Edward Albee

Directed by Preston Lane

Scenery: Anya Klepikov

Costumes: Bill Brewer

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Taylor Dankovich

Photos: Anya Klepikov

Music by Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics and Book by Brian Crawley
Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts

Directed by Lindsay Rae Taylor

Music Direction by Brian Osborne

Choreography by Jeri Dickey

Scenery Inji Ha

Costumes Grier Coleman

Lighting Krista Smith

Sound Cheyenne Dalton

Photos: Andrew Schwartz & Henry Eiland Photography

Hartford Stage

CT Critics Circle 2022 Award Nominee for Lighting Design

Written by Agatha Christie

Directed by Jackson Gay

Scenery: Riw Rakkulchon

Costumes: Fabian Aguilar

Lights: Krista Smith

Sound: Daniel Baker

Photos by Riw Rakkulchon & T. Charles Erickson

Ego Po Classic Theater

Written by Mae West

A Reworking by Thomas Choinacky And AZ Espinoza

Directed by Rebecca Wright

Choreographer Paule Turner

Scenery Chris Haig

Costumes Ilycia Buffaloe

Lighting Krista Smith

Asst. Lighting Xander Setchko

Sound Adiah Hicks

Photos Bradley Visual Co

Arden Theatre CO.

By Allison Gregory

Directed by Rebecca Wright

Scenic Design : Andrew Cohen​

Costume Design: Leigh Paradise

Lighting Design : Krista Smith

Sound Design: Alex Bechtel

Photos: Wide Eyed Studios

Arden Theatre CO.

Adapted for the stage by Douglas Irvine

From the book by J.M. Barrie

Directed by Whit MacLaughlin

Scenic Designer: David P. Gordon
Lighting Designer: Krista Smith
Costume Designer: Jill Keys
Sound Designer: Larry Fowler
Stage Manager: Lyndsey Connolly

Photos: Wide Eyed Studios

Theatre Horizon

Regional Premier

Written By Charly Evon Simpson

Director: Cheyenne Barboza

Scenic: Marie Laster

Prosthetics: Jo Vito Ramirez

Lighting Designer: Krista Smith

Costume Designer: Ang(ela) Bey

Sound Designer: Jordan McCree

Master Electrician: Heather Pynne

Photos by John C. Hawthorne

Presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects

The Icebox

Choreographer/Lead Artist: Annie Wilson

Director: Rebecca Wright

Stage Manager: Payton Smith

Environmental Design: Harbour Edney, Krista Smith, and Sunny Lucas

Projection Design: Taj Rauch

Sound Design: Adriano Shaplin

Costume Design: Kimberly Max Brown, PhD

Dancers and Co-creation: Shannon Murphy, Jaime Maseda, Copper Santiago, Annie Wilson, and Ciera Gardner

Photographer: Johanna Austin

Theatre Horizon

Philadelphia Professional Premiere

Songs by The Go-Go’s

Based upon The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney

Conceived by & Original Book by Jeff Whitty

Adapted by James Magruder

Directed by Rebecca Wright

Music Director: Elle.Morris

Choreographer: Sanchel Brown

Fight & Intimacy Director: Eli Lynn

Scenic Designer: Jennifer Hiyama

Lighting Designer: Krista Smith

Costume Designer: Rebecca Kanach

Sound Designer: Michael Kiley

Photos by John C. Hawthorne

Theatre Horizon

World Premier

Playwright: Michael John Garcés

Director: Nell Bang-Jensen

Original Music: ILL DOOTS

Music Directors: Elle.Morris & Scott Ziegler

Scenic & Prop Designer: Chris Haig

Lighting Designer: Krista Smith

Costume Designer: Leigh Paradise

Sound Designers: Anthony Martinez-Briggs & Jordan McCree

Master Electrician: Heather Pynne

Photos by John C. Hawthorne

Paradise Factory

Written and Directed by Sam Max

Scenery: Emona Stoykova

Costumes: Ivy Karlsgodt

Lighting: Krista Smith

Music & Sound: Michael Costagliola

Photos:  Maria Baranova

To reflect on the creative, innovative moments of 2020 and to welcome the hope that the New Year brings, Live Design is conducting 31 Days Of Plots. Every day during the month of December 2020, we will highlight a different lighting design, from across theatre, concert tours, corporate events, and more. Krista Smith shares the lighting plots for her lighting design of Coop at Paradise Factory.

https://www.livedesignonline.com/theatre/31-days-plots-coop

Rutgers University

By Kate Hamill

Based on the Novel by Jane Austin

Directed by Malika Oyetimein

Scenery: David P. Gordon

Costumes: Brian Mulligan

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sounds: Chris Sannino

Photos: Matt Pilsner

Muhlenberg College

Written by Euripides

Directed by Matt Moore

Choreography by Karen Dearborne

Scenery: Curtis Dretsch

Costumes: Rebecca Lustig

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Ian Scot Williams

Photos: Maddi Whiting

The Tank

Written by Dea Loher

Translated by Daniel Brunet

Directed by Ashley Tata

Lighting & Environment: Krista Smith

Sound & Music: Cory Larson

Photos: Walls Trimble

Yale Iseman Theater

By Sarah B. Mantell

Directed by Jesse Rasmussen

Scenery: Joo Kim

Costumes: Sarah Nietfeld

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Michael Costagliola

Projection: Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez

Photos: T Charles Erickson

Yale Summer Cabaret

Written by Young Jean Lee

Directed by Shadi Ghaheri

Scenery: Stephanie Osin Cohen

Costumes: Sophia Choi

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Tye Hunt Fitzgerald

Assoc. Sound: Kathy Ruvuna

Projections: Yaara Bar

Photos: Elsa GibsonBraden & Yaara Bar

Two River Theater, Little Shakes

By William Shakespeare

Adapted & Directed by Em Weinstein

Scenery: Gerardo Díaz Sánchez

Costumes: Cole McCarty

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Michael Costagliola

Photos: Walls Trimble

The Atlantic Theater Company

Written by Bertold Brecht

Adaptation by Tony Kushner

Directed by Zi Alikhan

Choreography by Sebastianai Romagnolo

Scenery: Alexander Woodward

Costumes: Johanna Pan

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Z Worthington

Photos: Marzio Fulfaro

Yale Iseman Theater

by Miranda Rose Hall & Elizabeth Dinkova

Music Composed by Michael Costagliola

Director: Elizabeth Dinkova

Scenery: Emona Stoykova

Costumes: Sarah Nietfeld

Lighting: Krista Smith

Sound: Michael Costagliola

Projection: Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez

Photos: T Charles Erickson