Ellyn Essig

ELLYN ESSIG (Set Design & Décor) a BCP Life Member, has served as décor designer for 30 BCP main stage productions, her efforts resulting in a Perry Award for Table Manners (2005) and Perry nominations for Angel Street (2008) and Ruthless! The Musical (2014). Ellyn’s directing credits include BCP’s Pippin, Steel Magnolias (2018 Perry Award winner for Outstanding Production of a Play), Veronica’s Room, and Getting Away With Murder. At other local theaters she directed Hair (Players Guild of Leonia), Thoroughly Modern Millie (3sPA), and Catch Me If You Can. Ellyn is a longtime member of the Screen Actors Guild and has appeared in theatrical productions in NY, NJ and California. She is the co-founder of Stage Scene & Song Performing Arts, a local youth theater company dedicated to education and performance of youth ages 11-18 years.

Previous Credits:

• 2021-2022
• Mentor in Moon Over Buffalo
• Décor Design in Moon Over Buffalo
• 2019-2020
• Set Design & Decor in The Lion in Winter
• Director in Pippin
• Sound Mixer in Pippin
• 2018-2019
• Director in Veronica's Room
• Program in Mission: Improv-able 3
• Décor in Church & State
• Set-Décor in You Can't Take It with You
• 2017-2018
• Program in While Shakespeare Slept / When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet
• Director in Steel Magnolias
• 2016-2017
• Décor Mentor in Time Stands Still
• Decor in The Last Night of Ballyhoo
• 2015-2016
• Décor in The Irish Curse
• Set Decor in Leading Ladies
• Director in Getting Away With Murder
• 2014-2015
• Set Design & Décor in The Mouse That Roared
• Décor in The Drowsy Chaperone
• 2013-2014
• Decor in Ruthless! The Musical
• Set Decor in To Kill A Mockingbird
• Director in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Décor in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 2012-2013
• Decor in Fools