Joan Long

Adjunct Professor // Scenic Design

A production designer currently working on all scales of theater in New Orleans, Long recently designed Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Macbeth (The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane), Men on Boats, Camille (NOLA Project), and Uncle Vanya Quarter Life Crisis (Goat in the Road). Not only is Long a prolific set designer in the New Orleans area, she is also one of its most sought after lighting designers. Some of her recent lighting credits include Roleplay (Goat In The Road), The Pirates of Penzance (Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre and NOCCA), The Wolves, A Doll’s House Part 2, Eclipsed, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Grounded, and Detroit (Southern Rep). In 2016, Long was awarded Gambit’s Big Easy Awards Theatre Person of the Year for her work in New Orleans. 

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