If these Winship walls could talk.

K. April Blackburn-Soroko (BFA 1993) is the Assistant Professor of Scenic Design at The University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida as well as the Resident Scenic Designer for the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre since 2007. She is also a Resident Designer at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota. Recent works include: Beehive: The 60’s Musical, Race, The Savannah Disputation, The 39 Steps, The Last Romance and Next to Normal.

She has designed ten productions at Triad Stage in Greensboro, North Carolina, which recently received a National Theatre Company Grant by the American Theatre Wing and was named as one of the 10 most promising theatres in the country. Last October April designed scenery and costumes for a production of The House of Bernarda Alba at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with the University of Miami Theatre Arts Department. She is married to Lee Soroko (MFA ’92) and has two beautiful children, Zoe (aged 15) and Nikolai (aged 12).