asta baker design

Asta Baker is a multidisciplinary theater artist with a background in sound, lights, and production management. They’ve worked as a technician and designer for the last five years in California and Oregon, and do their best to bring a positive attitude and a critical mind to any project they work on.

Asta started exploring the performing arts nearly 10 years ago, acting as run crew for The Little Mermaid Junior their freshman year of high school and ensemble for Sweeney Todd their sophomore year. They board opped a few times, but didn’t really fall in love with tech until college. Their freshman year, the Chatauqua new works festival needed (realistically multiple) designer(s) for one of the thirty minute plays, so Asta stepped up; they did sound, lights, and media for Playboy of the Golden West by Isabel Cruz. That was the first real step down the path they’re on today, and they would love to come make your show spectacular!

When Asta isn’t working in theater, they enjoy teaching, video games, media criticism, and music – both making and listening. They have a lovely dog named Bailey, and an adorable cat named Cinder.

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  • Sound Design Portfolio

    Please enjoy a selection of sounds I have made in my career thus far! This experience is best with headphones. PART ONE: Inanna on the Meathook Digital Arts and New Media MFA student (and now graduate) Rory Willats recruited me to design the aural component of one of his showcases. He created an exhibit featuring…

  • Sound: Come, Fur(r)ies, Dance!

    Sound: Come, Fur(r)ies, Dance!

    Spring, 2023. UCSC Digital Arts and New Media. Come, Fur(r)ies, Dance! was a mixed reality production directed by MFA candidate Rory Willats as part of the Digital Arts and New Media program at UC Santa Cruz. Asta was the sound designer in charge of the technological side of things; they got to help a wonderful…

  • Audio Engineer: Hair

    September-November 2023. Portland Center Stage, Portland OR. In the fall of this year, I had the privilege of working as the A2 for Portland Center Stage’s season opener, Hair. It was my first gig in the city, and a great introduction to professional musical theater. The show presented some interesting challenges, mainly to do with…

  • Lights (Head Electrician): The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Lights (Head Electrician): The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Cabrillo Stage, Summer of 2023 Asta was the Master Electrician for Cabrillo Stage’s 2023 production of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. They learned a lot working on the show, and enjoyed working with the fine folks at Cabrillo. They would especially like to thank technical director Marcel Tijoe for his support and guidance. Lighting Designer:…

  • Lighting: Exit! Pursued by a Bear

    Lighting: Exit! Pursued by a Bear

    Summer 2023, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Fringe. Exit! Pursued by a Bear is a play by Lauren Gunderson about a woman who decides to break up with her abusive husband by performing reenactments of their marriage before drenching him in honey and raw meat and luring a bear into their house. It was the Fringe show…

  • Lighting: Just Desserts

    Lighting: Just Desserts

    Summer of 2022, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Fringe. Just Desserts by Carol Lashov is a play about the three Furies and Orestes, in which he comes to them for help killing his mother in revenge and they refuse. It was the Fringe show of Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2022 summer season. Asta was the lighting designer, and…

  • Lighting: Musical Theater Scenes

    Lighting: Musical Theater Scenes

    UCSC Barnstorm, 2020-2021 Asta was involved in Barnstorm’s Musical Theater Scenes group for three years, starting as a performer and then taking over as lighting designer for the two shows straddling the pandemic. Their first design (March of 2020) was a lot of fun, and made it all the way to final dress before the…

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