(She/Her) Eleanor Kahn works regionally and internationally as a scenic, experiential, immersive, event and community-focused artist and designer. Her work has appeared in hundreds of performance and non-performance spaces, ranging from intimate to multi-thousand seat venues. Highlights include: the world premiere of Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret (Northern Stage in White River Junction, VT); world premieres of In the Grove of Forgetting as well as a new adaptation of It’s a Wonderful Life (TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, AR); co-creator and designer of FORTS! Build Your Own Adventure which has appeared numerous times in Chicago as well as at Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis and Young People’s Theater in Toronto, Canada; scenic design for Iron & Wine on the national Outside Problems tour; world premiere of NOVA at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; creative director + designer for an immersive lobby activation at the Harris Theater for English National Ballet’s production of CREATURE; designer for a 2019 art activation in Millennium Park across from Cloud Gate; artist-in-residence for a neighborhood revitalization project in Des Moines, IA; and numerous experiential-focused productions of well-known works such as Goodnight Moon (Chicago Children’s Theater), Hairy Ape (Oracle Productions), Urinetown (Theo Ubique), and Hair (Kokandy Productions) (all Chicago). Eleanor has an MFA in Scenic Design from Boston University. Her full portfolio can be viewed at www.eleanorkahn.com. Kahn is a proud member of USA 829.
