Jessica Lynn Hightower has worked as a scenic designer & fabricator in various venues in Texas, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and Montana. She has received two Kennedy Center national awards for her projection design work on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and multiple regional awards in both scenic and media design from Southwest USITT, USITT Ohio-Valley and KCACTF Region 6. Jessica will be starting as an assistant professor of scene design at Elon University starting in August 2025. To see some of her work, visit JessicaLynnDesigns.com.