Mikiko was born in Kobe, Japan, and traveled to United States to learn set design over 27 years ago. Based in New York City, she has worked in both the USA and Japan as a freelance set designer.

 

Her design work has been seen Off Broadway at the Primary Stages, Working Theater, Epic Theater Ensemble, INTAR Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the National Asian American Theatre Company. Within the US regional theatres at Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage, Barkley Repertory Theatre, the Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Playmakers Repertory Company, ACT Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Public Theatre’s Under the Raider Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Cornerstone Theater Company, Boston Lyric Opera among others. In Japan her work has been seen at the Umeda Arts Theatre, Nissay Theatre, Nissay Opera, Nikikai Opera, Suntory Hall, Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall and Biwako Hall.  She also designed recent US National Tour of Dirty Dancing and  a new Kungfu musical Dragon Spring, Phoenix Rise at the Shed.

 

As an associate scenic designer, her credits includes, Broadway: My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, The Bridges of Madison County, Golden Boy, That Championship Season, Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Next Fall, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.  National tour: The King and I, Fiddler on the roof, The Bridges of Madison County and The Light in the Piazza and Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific.  Westend: South Pacific, The King and I, and upcoming My fair lady. US, UK and World tour: The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, Bridges of Madison County, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, and My Fair Lady.

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Broadway credits:

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/mikiko-suzuki-macadams-483614

 

She has taught at Fordham University and Rutgers University.  Currently, she is a faculty member of Yale School of Drama’s design department.  

BFA : Cornish College of the Arts   MFA: Yale School of Drama