Rate My Professor Leah Mazur

Leah Mazur is an Assistant Professor and Program Head of the BFA Design & Technology program in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Texas at Arlington. She earned an MFA in Scenography from the University of Kansas in 2017 and a B.A. in Theater Design from Cameron University in 2013. Prior to her current role, Mazur served as a resident scenographer and assistant professor of theater, film, and media studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. As a freelance scenographer, she has accumulated design credits across numerous regional and national theaters, including Spinning Tree Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Kansas Repertory Theatre, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Cape May Stage, Anacostia Playhouse, Scena Theatre, Amphibian Stage, Theatre Three, SheDFW, Stage West, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Circle Theatre, Second Thought Theatre, Undermain Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, RuPaul's Drag Con in Los Angeles, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Mazur's research explores immersive performance, the blurring of lines between experiencing and becoming performance, intersections of interactive installation and performance art, and the integration of extended reality (XR) technologies into the performing arts for accessibility and expanded storytelling. Her academic interests encompass gender and political theater, theater for social change, trauma representation in performance and design, gender identity and costume design, devised performance, site-specific scenic design and performance, installation and exhibit design, and augmented and virtual reality in live performance art. She maintains an active national and international design profile, emphasizing the development of new works and the foregrounding of femme voices through predominately women- and femme-led production teams. At UTA, her contributions include the immersive interactive performance installation in/e motion, featured in faculty creative works and presented at the Prague Quadrennial. Mazur is a professional member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).