About

ABOUT

Caitlin Ayer designs sets & costumes for plays, tv/film, musicals, opera, and live events. Based in New York, NY.

Henry Hewes Nominated // BFA Webster University // MFA Carnegie Mellon University // Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829

caitlinayer (AT) gmail (DOT) com

UPCOMING / CURRENT PROJECTS

The Render // Art Director // Big Art Group with Asteroid Amor/Accademia Teatrale Carlo Goldoni and TSV – Teatro Nazionale (Venice, Italy) // Caden Mason/Jemma Nelson, Direction/Creation // 2023

Truth Be Told // Set Designer // Curious Theatre // Christy Montour-Larson, Director // 2024

TV/FILM CREDITS

EVIL (S4) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Ray Kluga, Production Designer; Bobby Berg, Art Director // CBS // 2022-23
UnCoupled // Art Director // Ray Kluga, Production Designer // Netflix // 2021-22
Godfather of Harlem (S3) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Patrick Howe, Production Designer; Casey Smith, Art Director // EPIX // 2022
Godfather of Harlem (S3, Ep 7) // Art Director // Casey Smith, Production Designer // EPIX // 2022
EVIL (S3, Ep 7 “The Demon of Cults”) // Art Director // Ray Kluga, Production Designer // CBS // 2022
EVIL (S3, Ep 6 “The Demon of Algorithms”) // Art Director // Ray Kluga, Production Designer // CBS // 2022
Partner Track (S1, Ep 10 “Dawn Raid”) // Art Director // Angelique Clark, Production Designer // CBS // 2022
EVIL (S2 & S3) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Ray Kluga, Production Designer; Bobby Berg, Art Director // CBS // 2022-23
The Good Fight (S6) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Ray Kluga, Production Designer; Frank White III, Art Director // CBS // 2022
Manifest (S4) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Sam Froeschle, Production Designer; Zebah Pinkham, Art Director // NBC // 2022
The Equalizer (S2) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Beth Rubino, Production Designer; Andy Eklund, Art Director // NBC // 2022
Manifest (S3) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Sam Froeschle, Production Designer; Emily Kollars, Art Director // NBC // 2020
The Equalizer (Pilot) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Carlos Menendez, Production Designer; Jim Feng, Art Director // NBC // 2020
Harlem’s Kitchen (Pilot) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Andrew Jackness, Production Designer; Matteo De Cosmo, Art Director // NBC // 2020
Little Voice (S1) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Alex Schaller, Production Designer; Adrienne Carlile, Art Director // Apple TV // 2019
Manifest (S2) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Ray Kluga, Production Designer; Bobby Berg & G. Warren Stiles, Art Directors // NBC // 2019
Blindspot (S5) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Sam Froeschle, Production Designer; Chris Thompson, Art Director // NBC // 2019
Katy Keene (S1) // Assistant Art Director (Draftsman) // Teresa Mastropierro, Production Designer; Mylene Santos, Art Director // The CW // 2019
SYFY Wire // Associate Art Director // Camille Connolly, Production Designer // 2019-2020
ESPN Studio E // Associate Art Director // Camille Connolly, Production Designer // 2019
The Alec Baldwin Show // Associate Art Director // ABC Studios // Camille Connolly, Art Director // 2018
Consider It! (S1) // Associate Art Director // VOX Media // Camille Connolly, Art Director // 2018
Tricked! (Season 1) // Art Coordinator // iTV // Justin Cox, Art Director // 2018
The Howard Stern Show // Production Design Assistant // Camille Connolly, Production Designer // 2017

THEATRE CREDITS

Willa’s Authentic Self* // Production Designer // Lisa Clair, Playwright; Shannon Sindelar, Director // 2023
The Secretary // Set Designer // Curious Theatre (Denver, Colorado) // 2020
Untitled B-52s Project Workshop* // Associate Set Designer // Sam Pinkleton, Director; Paul Spadone, Prod Designer // 2019
American Buffalo // Assistant Set Designer // Circle in the Square Theatre (Broadway) // Scott Pask, Scenic Designer // 2019
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? // Assistant Set Designer // The Booth Theatre (Broadway) // Scott Pask, Scenic Designer // 2019
Romeo and Juliet // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Christopher DuVal, Director // 2019
Twelfth Night // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Timothy Orr, Director // 2019
Feminine Octagon* // Set Designer // Rough Draft Festival @ LPAC // Anne Cecelia DeMelo, Director; Amy Gijsbers van Wijk, Playwright // 2019
The Making of King Kong* // Set Designer // Target Margin Theater // Eugene Ma, Director; Lisa Clair, Playwright // 2018
Hecuba* // Set Designer // Colorado University Boulder // Tammy Meleghini-Stalker, Director // 2018
Richard III // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Wendy Franz, Director // 2018
You Can't Take It With You // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Carolyn Howarth, Director // 2018
Still Life With Iris // Set Designer // Metropolitan State Denver // Jeff Parker, Director // 2018
The Time of Your Life // Set Designer // Hunter College // Inés Braun, Director // 2018
The Santaland Diaries // Set Designer // Theatreworks Colorado Springs // Geoffrey Kent, Director // 2017
ID, Please (UK Premiere) // Set Designer // Tête à Tête Festival London // Stephen Eckert, Director // 2017
Opacity* // Set Designer // Big Art Group @ Live Arts Bard Biennial // Caden Mason, Director // 2017
Julius Caesar // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Anthony Powell, Director // 2017
Taming of the Shrew // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Christopher DuVal, Director // 2017
Co-Opera New Works Festival* // Set Designer // Pittsburgh Opera // Stephen Eckert, Director // 2017
The Rover // Set Designer // Carnegie Mellon University // David Bond, Director // 2016
The Comedy of Errors // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Geoffrey Kent, Director // 2016
Troilus and Cressida // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Carolyn Howarth, Director // 2016
Lord of the Flies // Set Designer // Carnegie Mellon University // Caden Manson, Director // 2015
Henry V // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Carolyn Howarth, Director // 2015
Wittenberg // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Timothy Orr, Director // 2015
Il Mondo della Luna // Set Designer // Carnegie Mellon University // Gregory Lehane, Director // 2014
Henry IV // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // Carolyn Howarth, Director // 2014
I Hate Hamlet // Set Designer // Colorado Shakespeare Festival // 2014
Good People // Set Designer // Curious Theatre Company // Christy Montour-Larson, Director // 2013
Wheel of Misfortune* // Set Designer // Off-Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts // Charlie Miller & Emily Tarquin, Directors // 2013
Time Stands Still // Set Designer // Curious Theatre Company // Christy Montour-Larson, Director // 2012
Drag Machine* // Set Designer // Off-Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts // Emily Tarquin, Director // 2012
Kenmark Scenic Backdrops // Assistant Scenic Artist // Susan Crabtree, Scenic Charge // 2013
Denver Center Theatre Company // Resident Design Assistant // Lisa Orzolek, Director of Scenic Design// 2010-12
The Book of Mormon // Design Assistant // 1st National Tour // Scott Pask, Designer; Frank McCullough, Associate Designer // 2012

*Denotes World Premiere

EVENTS

The Mound* // Lead Designer // Art Installation w/ Lisa Clair Group @ The Collapsable Hole // 2021
Untitled King Kong Project // Lead Designer // Art Installation w/ Lisa Clair Group @ Spring/Break Art Show // 2018
Google Event Spaces @ 345 Hudson St, 315 Hudson St, 111 8th Ave // Associate Set Designer // Camille Connolly, Production Designer // 2019-2020
3C Studio, Inc. // Design Associate // Camille Connolly, Production Designer // 2018-2020
3C Studio, Inc. // Design Assistant // Camille Connolly, Production Designer // 2017-2018
HALO Awards // Art Production Assistant // Julio Himede, Production Designer // 2017 

RECOGNITION

Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination (Costume Design) // Willa’s Authentic Self // 2023
Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination (Notable Effects - Puppetry Design) // Willa’s Authentic Self // 2023
Designs featured in William Shakespeare′s Julius Caesar for Junior Cycle // Patrick Murray, Author // Edco Press, 2020
Henry Award Winner // You Can’t Take It With You // Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 2019
Rose Brand Graduate Scene Design Award // USITT // 2017
George Kimberly Award for Set Design // Carnegie Mellon University // 2017
Young Designer to Watch // Live Design Magazine // 2013
Henry Award Nomination // Good People // Curious Theatre Company // 2014
W. Oren Parker Undergraduate Scene Design Award // USITT // 2010
Costume Designs for A Midsummer Night’s Dream featured on cover of Dramatics Magazine // 2010
Marita Woodruff Scholarship // Webster University // 2008

PRESS

“And then there’s the design: fabulous, top to bottom. Caitlin Ayer (Lead Production design), with Yijun Yang (associate scenic design), Emily White (associate costume design), Red (associate props and media design), has made a true achievement of production design, every element of it larger-than-life, with more “I can’t believe I’m seeing this” design elements than one might see in an entire season of uptown theater.” - Jerry Lieblich, CultureBot, RE: “Willa’s Authentic Self”

"...The Rover strays far from expectation thanks to some explosive stagecraft and clever direction...The ingenious mixture of period appropriate and bombastic contemporary design is remarkable and exciting. There is a certain hugeness to this production that’s lovable: the opening of the play features a servant wheeling in the three sisters, who are contained in a massive box of T.N.T that explodes them out of it. These choices are reckless yet precise, and satiate the need for bold interpretation and theater-nerd attention to detail...CMU’s The Rover is a massive success. Besides the excellent performances and inspired stage design, this is a complex and energetic production that intuitively closes the gap between the precision of recreation and the creativity of re-invention" - Mark Skalski, Pittsburgh in the Round

"In lieu of the smoke and mirrors of expensive effects and constantly shifting sets, the production revels in the raw power of performance...Stripped of unnecessary effects and stage magic, the deeper themes regarding the glory and gruesomeness of warfare in 'Henry V' shine all the more brightly on the University Theatre stage." - A.H. Goldstein, Boulder Daily Camera.

"Caitlin Ayer’s scenic design for “Good People” is knock-out; the multi-purpose modular pieces flip and move like a charm." - Mark Stevens, Telluride Inside

"The set, which transforms from a decrepit hodgepodge of linoleum tiles, chain link fencing, corrugated metal, old shutters and the like into the posh living room of Dr. Mike and back, is remarkable. All praise to the actors and to Scenic Designer Caitlin Ayer." - Gary Zeidner, Boulder Weekly.

"...Simple, clever, pivoting set pieces distinguished court room from bar room and kept the focus on the mad-cap antics of Sir John Falstaff, the agony of a King trying to quell a rebellion and the inevitable showdown between Hal and Hotspur." - Jim Volz, American Theatre Critics Association

"The brief romance and the larger conflict share a common theme: promises made and broken, with honor tarnished and reputation nothing more than a way to get good men killed. Caitlin Ayer's set communicates this instantly. Above the great gate of Troy, instead of the legendary "topless towers of Ilium," we get towerless tops - worn and rusty peaks of metal that are torn off partway down, with no supporting foundation. The ravages of war are apparent, but the stronger qualities beneath have decayed." - Scott Rochat, Boulder Daily Camera.