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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 - Present

Textiles And Costume Shop Adjunct Instructor, Theater And Open Arts Programs, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2023 - 2023

Video Editor, Promotions And Trailers, Middle East Broadcasting Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2009 - 2013

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.

Publications

Lina Younes, Anthony Tassa And Isabela De Melo. Heavy Metal Macbeth: Infusing Shakespeare’s Classic Tragedy with Modern Rhythms

Conference Presentations

Daughter of the Earth, Columbia University Graduate Film, 2026

Lost Eid, Lost Eid, 2026

Guards at the Taj, October 2026

Half Life, Perform Sharjah, October 2026

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

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Tragedy of the Voice, American University of Sharjah, January 2026 - January 2028

Grant, SCOBY Shadow Puppets, American University of Shajrah, November 2025 - June 2026

Awards and Honors

Student Visionary Award, Tribeca Film Festival, Ebb & Flow is an award-winning, Arabic-language short film directed by Lebanese filmmaker Nay Tabbara. The coming-of-age story follows 14-year-old Loulwa as she navigates her sexual awakening and political instability in Beirut. It won the prestigious Student Visionary Award at the 2024 Tribeca Festival., 2024

Artistic Creation Award for Digital Excellence, Opera America, Svadba: The cinematic adaptation, co-produced by the Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Philadelphia, won the top prize for Artistic Creation at OPERA America's Digital Excellence in Opera Awards., 2023

Best Scenic Design Award, BroadwayWorld Awards, Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec (produced by the Bated Breath Theatre Company) won seven Off-Broadway BroadwayWorld Awards in 2021. [1, 2]The award for Best Scenic Design of a Play (Off-Broadway) was won by a three-person design team: Ebony Burton, Lina Younes, Sadra Tehrani, 2021