BIOGRAPHY

Originally from the UK, Ms Sissons currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and New Canaan, CT. Her award winning designs for the stage have taken her around the US and internationally since graduating from Central St Martin’s (BA 1998) and The Royal College of Art (MA 1991) in London. For fifteen years she was a professor of design at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Drama. Her credits include: three time exhibitor at the Prague Quadrennial for theatre and performance, she is a Fulbright Specialist, as well as Drama Desk and two time Helen Hayes award nominee.

In addition to designing for theatre and opera, Sissons received an MFA in painting from the New York Studio School [NYSS] in 2024. She just completed the selective NYSS artist-in-residence one year program in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Her residency solo exhibition, Not Just AnyBody was on view at NYSS Project Space in 2025. Also in the space, she curated the group show, UnBind: Figuring The Layers of Being, with outstanding NYC artists. The reviews can been seen in art magazines: Art Spiel and AMNY.

In New York City, her work was included in the group show Being Human at The Painting Center, 2024. She was also shown in Art Gotham’s show, Stories Unfolding in 2025. Her artwork is currently on view at the Bowery Gallery’s 34th Annual juried group exhibition in Chelsea.

Her paintings were included in the juried shows at Silvermine Galleries in Connecticut: Color Me, 72nd A-ONE and 74th A-ONE where she was the Grand Prize winner in 2024, which will be on show in the Silvermine Gallery in 2026. Recently her work was seen in the juried group show at GAS’s Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich, CT.

During the pandemic she co-created an online painting course for refugee women in the Houston area with WRAP.

INSTAGRAM: @narellesissons

CONTACT: narellesissonsdesign@gmail.com

Theatrical Representation:

Russ Rosensweig, Agent

Summit Entertainment Group

10 Potter Hill Drive

Guilford, CT 06437

203.453-0188

russ@summitentertainmentgroup.com