Artist Bios: Kimi Maeda 

KIMI MAEDA is a recent graduate of the MFA design program at the University of South Carolina and the recipient of the 2005 Rose Brand Award for scenic design. She designed the sets and/or costumes for Theatre South Carolina's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Trojan Women, Polaroid Stories, The Crucible, Othello, and Baltimore Theatre Project's "Looking for Lulu". She assisted her mentor, Nic Ularu, on the Obie-Award-winning production of Painted Snake in a Painted Chair. Kimi received her MA in Scenography from Central Saint M artins College of Art and Design in London where she wrote, directed, and designed Even Clairvoyants Need to Eat, The Lonely Lexicon, and Glimpse of a Shapeshifter.