Marsha Ginsberg is a visual artist and stage designer working between performance, opera and photo/installation formats. She received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art with post-grad studies at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She has designed spaces and clothes for live performances in major theaters and museums in New York City, and regionally throughout the United States. Internationally —work in Germany, Switzerland, France, Greece, UAE, including Festival D’Autumn Paris, HKW Berlin; Opera Basel;  Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar; Opéra National de Bordeaux; Athens Epidaurus Festival, etc. Current: “Primary Trust,” by Eboni Booth at Roundabout, Laura Pels, NYC; “Treemonisha” by Scott Joplin with orchestrations and prologue/epilogue by composer Damien Sneed, Opera Theater of St. Louis. “Letters from Max” by Sarah Ruhl at Signature Theater, NYC; Benjamin Britten’s “Midsummer Nights Dream” in Repertory at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Theater, NYC. Grants/Awards: 2023 Obie Award for the Creative Team for Sanaz Toosi’s “English”; 2023 Transformative Research Award, NYUAbu Dhabi; 2013 Obie Award for durational installation Habit (with David Levine); Multiple residencies at MacDowell Colony and Robert Wilson's Watermill Center. Project grants include: NYFA, NYSCA; Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NEA. In 2020 she was awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome where she will resume her residency in Fall 2023. A dedicated educator, she has taught widely in the United States and at the TU in Berlin. She is currently an Associate Arts Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi.