Cade M. Sikora is an award-nominated designer and historian from the Midwest. Currently, he is Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Scenic Design at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 2020 with a Masters of Fine Arts in Scenic Design. His work as scenic, lighting, and sound designer has been featured in productions from Wisconsin to Texas to Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
In addition to design, Cade is also an avid researcher. In 2018, Cade was awarded the William Case Kramer Fellowship at The Ohio State University which allowed him to go to the United Kingdom to study the work of scenographer Maria Björnson for an article published in USITT’s TD&T. In 2023, he co-produced a 10-and-a-half hour radio play set aboard the R.M.S. Titanic, which he wrote and adapted, and is currently compiling material for projects on the final voyage of the airship LZ-129 and the fall of the Romanov Empire.
An updated resume can be found here.