Kaitlyn Peterson, known to some friends and colleagues as KP, is a scenic designer and artist based in New York City. She discovered her love for art when asked to recreate a favorite photo using cloth, dye and wax or ‘batik’, a piece that led her to win a National Scholastics Art and Writing award at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Ever since, she has been drawn to the challenge of photo-realistic painting and drawing, capturing the emotions one was feeling in that moment in time. As a scenic designer for theatre, Kaitlyn gets to grow her ideas one step further than photo-realism. There is no greater feeling to her than to watch designs come off the page and alive on the stage.

 

In 2017, Kaitlyn started working at Tate Design Group, founded by scenic designer Paul Tate dePoo III. As an associate for Paul, she has worked on many productions nationwide and internationally including Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Footloose and Next to Normal at The Kennedy Center’s Broadway Centerstage, 42nd Street at The Ordway, Murder On The Orient Express at Asolo Repertory Theatre, Grand Hotel and Blackbeard at Signature Theatre DC, and a production of Turandot on the world’s largest outdoor opera stage in Vienna, Austria for Oper im Steinbruch. Most recently, they worked as the production design team for Usher: The Las Vegas Residency at The Colosseum in Caesar's Palace in 2021 and . Usher: My Way at Dolby Live in Park MGM in 2022.

 

Kaitlyn earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film and her Bachelor of Arts at the School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.