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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Performing Arts Program

Teaching areas

Scenic Design, Stagecraft, Technical Theatre, Theatre Production

Research areas

SCOBY Shadow Puppets Opera in Arabic

Education

MFA, Design For Stage And Film, New York University Tisch, United States, 2020

BFA, Graphic Design, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 2008

Professional experience

Founder, The Animation Chamber, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2014 - 2017

Memberships

Theatre Green Book, International, Theatre Green Book is an industry-wide initiative to work more sustainably in response to the climate crisis. It is a free resource for everyone in the performing arts, working in any role and at all scales, providing a framework for planning, best practice guidance, a measurement system and shared standards., 2024

Contact

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Lina Younes

Assistant Professor

MFA, New York University Tisch, United States

Lina Younes is a Palestinian-Lebanese visual designer working across theater, film, animation, and installations. She is on a constant quest in exploring narratives while showcasing processes. Lina creates worlds with one eye shut and an index finger as her wand. Her work is about freezing moments, replaying them, changing scenarios, playing out consequences, and then repeating. Impossible things happen in an instant; objects vanish, come to life, and are set off again. In motion. Lina holds an MFA in Scenic Design from NYU/Tisch. She is an imagineer with a great love and a great weakness: soap bubbles.

Conference Presentations

SCOBY Shadow Puppets, Sikka Art And Design Festival, February 2026

Theatre-Making: Process Over Product, Sikka Art And Design Festival, February 2026

SCOBY Shadow Puppets, World Stage Design 2025, October 2025

Creating an Arabic Opera from a Designer’s Perspective, United States Institute For Theatre Technology, Inc., 7 March 2025