Leah Mazur, MFA University of Kansas, is a multidisciplinary scenographer (scenic/lighting/costume designer) and visual artist based in the DFW metroplex.
Her research explores the blurring of lines between experiencing and becoming performance, the intersections of interactive installation and performance art, as well as the integration of XR (extended reality) into the performing arts as a means of accessibility and expanded storytelling. She is an active designer with both national and international profiles, focusing on the development of new works and the foregrounding of femme voices and predominately women/femme- led production teams. In her work, she seeks to further define the intersections of her visual artistic practice with her spatial design projects through the integration of design artifacts.
Her upcoming works include the world premiere of a spatial design/dance/computer science engineering installation in/e motion, an artist residency with Circle Theatre for their 2025 season, and projects with Amphibian Stage, Undermain Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and Second Thought Theatre.
Select credits include work at Spinning Tree Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Kansas Repertory Theatre (Kansas City), Lake Dillon Theatre Company (Colorado), Cape May Stage (New Jersey), Anacostia Playhouse, Scena Theatre (Washington D.C.), Amphibian Stage, Theatre Three, Altar’d Playhouse, SheDFW, Stage West, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, and Circle Theatre (DFW), RuPaul's Drag Con (Los Angeles), and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Leah maintains professional membership and affiliation with the national United States Institute of Technical Theatre (USITT). She is currently head of the Design & Technology BFA program in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Do not expect theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. -Bertolt Brecht