Becca Venable is a Dallas, Texas native now living in Chicago where she is the technical director at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a company member with The Comrades.  In 2014 Becca graduated from Texas Tech University with a BFA in Theatre Arts: Design/Technology where she worked on multiple shows including Fuddy Meers, How I Learned to Drive, Twelfth Night, and Rent.  While also living in Lubbock, Texas she worked on The Nutcracker and Snow White (Ballet Lubbock), Beauty and the Beast and Oklahoma (Lubbock Moonlight Musicals), Lines and Lights (Flatlands Dance Theatre), and The Boys Next Door (Lubbock Community Theatre) to name just a few.  Immediately after graduating Becca worked for Eastern New Mexico University as their production manager and resident lighting, sound, and scenic designer for a year where she worked on Reckless, Both Sides, Almost, Maine, and Any Given Monday.  Now in Chicago Becca also works as a freelance technical director, sound designer, lighting designer, and stage manager around the city.  In May 2018 Becca was the recipient of the Michael Merritt Emerging Technical Collaborator Award. Some of Becca’s Chicago productions include Intimate Apparel (University of Illinois at Chicago), American Hero (First Floor Theater), Sweet and Topdog/Underdog (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre), Weekend Comedy (Oil Lamp Theater), Damascus (Strawdog Theatre Company), In the Wake and Row After Row (The Comrades), The Mars Assignment (Collaboraction Theatre Company), A Little Night Music (BoHo Theatre), The Good Fight (Babes With Blades), and Wounds to the Face (Runcible Theatre Company).

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As a designer and technician, I strive to emphasize my voice, opinions, and beliefs through the art that I create, guided, of course, by the demands of text and collaboration. Because design is an art form in itself, my work provokes thoughts, reactions, and, ideally, action in others. A design should not simply enhance a performance or provide entertainment, but also leave an impact in some way with every person that sees it.