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Cade M. Sikora teaches Scenic Design for the Department of Theatre and Dance at Ball State University. His work as a designer and artist has been seen onstage from Wisconsin to Texas to Pennsylvania. He is currently the Resident Scenic Designer and Technical Director of the Millbrook Playhouse in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. His design portfolio ranges from fully produced musicals to intimate dramas, staged concerts, to dance and movement pieces, and museum exhibits.

Sikora’s scholarship focuses primarily on history and trends within the areas of theatrical design and scenography and their modern applications. In 2018, Cade was awarded the William Case Kramer Fellowship at The Ohio State University which allowed him to go to the United Kingdom to study the work of scenographer Maria Björnson for an article published in USITT’s Theatre Design & Technology.

He is also engaged in emerging collaborative processes for creating new works based on documentary sources. In 2023, he co-produced a 10-and-a-half-hour radio play set aboard the R.M.S. Titanic, which he wrote and adapted, and is currently compiling material for projects on the final voyage of the airship LZ-129 and the fall of the Romanov Empire. In addition to USITT’s Theatre Design & Technology, his scholarly work is published in Theatre/Practice, and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre.

He graduated from The Ohio State University in 2020 with a Master of Fine Arts in Scenic Design. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. www.cademsikora.com

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