The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Scout Davis for The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync.
The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync is a homage to the pop rock star from the early 2000’s. The piece explores what it means to come out of the shadows of what others perceive you as in this world while holding true to your authentic self.
Created and Performed by Scout Davis
Graphic Art designed by June Buck
Scenic design by Emmie Finckel and Miguel Urbino
Lighting design by Cha See
Costume design by Kindall Almond
Scout Davis (they/them) is a non-binary queer creator of live communal performance works. Their work has been seen at HERE Arts Center, The Clemente Center, Chelsea Factory, The Brick, LPAC,The Wild Project and Dixon Place. Recent directing credits include Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play at The University of Buffalo, Putting it Together at Pace University: Sands College of the Performing Arts and As I Eat The World by Luis Roberto Herrera at The Tank. Scout is an alumni of The John Wells MFA Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University and The International Performance Ensemble program at Pace University: Sands College of the Performing Arts. Next up Scout will be directing The Apple Tree at Pace University and God of Vengeance at Rutgers.
Emmie Finckel is a queer, Asian-American scenic designer. Recent credits include In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwright’s Horizons), Becoming A Man (A.R.T.), Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theater), Medea: Re-Versed (Red Bull), See What I Wanna See (Out of the Box), The Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage), Sanctuary City (TheaterWorks Hartford), Comedy of Errors (Public Theater: Mobile Unit), the ripple, the wave, that carried me home (Yale Repertory Theater), As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse), 53% Of (2nd Stage), The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre), In the Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door). Associate design credits include Mary Jane (MTC - Broadway) and many productions with Gabriel Evansohn (KPOP (Broadway), Empire Travel Agency) as a member of Woodshed Collective. Emmie holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and teaches at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU.
Website: www.efinckel.com
Miguel Urbino (he/him) (Scenic Designer) is a NYC-based, queer, first generation, Filipino-American, scenic designer. Designer: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Repertory Philippines, Manila); The Light In The Piazza (New York City Center Encores!); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Repertory Theatre, CT Critics Circle nom.); more more more (Set and Costumes, Yale Cabaret); The Motherf**ker With The Hat (T. Schreiber Studios). Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama; BA, Marymount Manhattan College. Miguel is a 2024 recipient of the 1/52
Project Grant and is a Proud member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829, IATSE.
Website: www.murbinodesigns.com
Instagram: @murbinodesigns
Cha See is an Obie Award-winning lighting designer from Manila, Philippines. Highlights include: Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary!; Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Special Citations , Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design); Pericles (Target Margin); Babbitt (La Jolla Playhouse); JORDANS (Public Theater); Is It Thursday Yet? (La Jolla, PAC NYC); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout); On That Day in Amsterdam (Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations for Outstanding Lighting Design); The Seagull/Woodstock, NY and one in two (The New Group); Sorry for Your Loss, The Fever, and Lucy (Audible Theater); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T., Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Public Theater); soft (MCC). MFA NYU Tisch.
Website: www.seelightingdesign.com
Instagram: @seethruuu
Kindall Almond is a costume designer, production designer, and stylist in New York. Kindall holds an M.F.A. from NYU Tisch in Costume Design, and a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute. Queer joy is resistance.