Marsha Ginsberg is a set /costume designer, and photographer. She lives in New York and works in the USA and Europe. She studied Theater Design at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and Fine Arts at the Whitney Museum Independent Study program and the Cooper Union, School of Art. Previous designs for UR include sets and costumes for The Puzzle Locker by W. David Hancock, and The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, both directed by Nigel Maister.
Her work in theater often entails designing new plays. Recent designs include Bleakhouse, created in collaboration with director Heiko Kalmbach, as part of "Crash! Boom! Bau!", festival commemorating the Bauhaus, Theaterhaus, Jena, Germany; Kafeneion conceived/directed by Dimitri Kourtakis, Athens International Festival, Greece; Telephone by Ariane Reines , directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, Foundry Theater, New York; Knock-out by Katerina Schmitt (based on the Gerhard Richter painting cycle, “October 18, 1977”) directed by Heiko Kalmbach at Theaterhaus Jena, and Thalia Theater, Hamburg.
Work in opera includes collaborations with directors Roy Rallo: Don Pasquale, Nationaltheater Weimar, Germany; La finta giardiniera, San Francisco Opera Center; Bluebeard’s Castle and Elektra, at Long Beach Opera; and with Christopher Alden : Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Theater Basel, Switzerland; Imeneo, Glimmerglass Opera, NY; Carmen, Nationaltheater Manheim, Germany; In Mahler’s Shadow, with EOS Orchestra, New York City; and Three One-Acts, San Francisco Opera Center.
As a visual artist she has participated in solo and group exhibitions: Pavlov’s Lab and other rooms, a solo exhibit at Magnus Muller Gallery, Berlin, displaying photos, a stage construction and performance series; and "Design Life Now", the national design triennial, which originated at The Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York and traveled to the ICA Boston and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas.