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Projection designer TENNESSEE RICE DIXON creates animated scenic environments and live media for stage. Set designs are conceived with projection needs - integrating media, surface, structure, and storytelling. 

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New play works and premiere productions include: Memories of Overdevelopment (Caridad Svitch), A Single Prayer (K. Jenkins) and Ubu84 at Firehouse Theatre in Richmond VA. Overview Effect (Lynn Rosen) and Ushuaia Blue (Caridad Svitch) at CATF. After December (Bo Wilson), In My Chair (Eva DeVirgilis) and End of War (David Robbins) at Virginia Repertory Theatre. Richard 3.0 (Synetic Theatre). Mr. Dickens' Christmas Carol (Bo Wilson) at Henley Street Theatre. Shadow Play (David Leong, Gary Hopper, Leland Faulkner) at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Other plays/musicals include: Preludes, An Oak Tree, War In Heaven, Boy in the Bathroom, Glass Menagerie, Human Terrain, Our Lady of Kibeho, Trans Scripts, Stupid Fucking Bird, Death and the Maiden, Julius Caesar, Funnyhouse of a Negro, Junta High, Shadow Play, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Silent Sky, King Lear, On The Verge, Water By The Spoonful, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Junta High, Marlene with the Expats theatre in Washington DC.

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Dance works include collaborating with choreographer Yin Mei on City of Paper (Jacobs Pillow Dance) and Nomad (Danspace).  Creating a multi-media opera Dong Dong-Touching the Moons with komungo virtuoso Jin Hi Kim, programmer Alex Noyes and international performing artists Samir Chatterjee, Kwon-Soon, Sin Cha Hong, Yin Mei, Parul Shah (The Kitchen, Mass MOCA, The Kennedy Center). As a Fulbright scholar in Hungary she worked with choreographer Angelus Iván & company creating an interactive piece titled VÚ performed at Trafo in Budapest.  Collaborators - musical and otherwise - include David Dominique, Phil Niblock, Charlie Morrow, Robbie Kinter, Jeno Menyhart, and Thiva Froes.

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Received a Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design 2023 and Outstanding Projection Design 2017.  Included in American Theatre Magazine's RollCall 2015 feature as a 'Theatre Worker You Should Know'. 

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Awarded the Grande Prix du Jury Milia d'Or in Cannes for her interactive CD-rom Scrutiny in the Great Round. Featured in the documentary 'Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media', (by Seth Thompson) profiling four new media artists(Toni Dove, Mark Amerika, and Troika Ranch).  Included in 'Multimedia Graphics:The Best of Global Hyper Design' (Chronicle Books), and 'The Digital Designer:The Graphic Artist Guide to New Media' (Watson-Guphill). 

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Studio is located in Baltimore, MD.