Annie Smart (scenic designer) is originally from London, where she designed sets and costumes for Joint Stock Theatre Group, the National Theatre, and the Royal Court Theatre, among many others. She was previously at Marin Theatre Company with the world premiere of Lasso of Truth. She recently designed At the Vanishing Point for Actors Theatre of Louisville. In the U.S.A., Ms. Smart has designed for many major theatres, including The Public Theater, Arena Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre. Now based in the Bay Area, her show designs include California Shakespeare Theater’s Blithe Spirit ; Candida ; Othello ; The Tempest; Man and Superman; An Ideal Husband; Private Lives; Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven; Pygmalion; and Lady Windermere’s Fan; as well as American Conservatory Theater’s A Doll’s House, Night and Day, The Threepenny Opera; and Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Big Love; Concerning Strange Devices; Fêtes de la Nuit; Heartbreak House; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; The Mystery of Irma Vep; Passing Strange; Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup; Suddenly Last Summer; Taking Over; Three Sisters; Tiny Kushner; and To the Lighthouse. Ms. Smart currently teaches costume and set design at the University of California, Berkeley.