James V. Raymond

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James is a versatile Scenic Designer, Project Manager, Scenic Charge Artist, and Carpenter based in the Washington, DC area. He currently works with Design Foundry as a Project Manager and Onsite Designer, managing standalone events independently while collaborating as part of larger PM teams on high-profile productions—including serving as a Project Manager for the White House Easter Egg Roll and as an Onsite Designer for the DC movie premiere of Wicked, Part One at the British Embassy. He is also the Founder and Owner of JV Raymond Studio, LLC, offering design consultation for live performance, special events, weddings, and custom artistic experiences for clients such as BarkBox, West Virginia University Hospitals, DeSales University, Voice Theatre, The Jewish Center of Greater Baltimore, and others.

James’s extensive background spans commercial event production, regional theatre, and academic leadership. In higher education, he previously served as the Visiting Assistant Scenic Design Professor and Scenic Charge Artist at DeSales University (2023–2024), where he designed Mainstage productions of Twelfth Night and The Drowsy Chaperone. Prior to that, he held faculty and fellow positions at Shenandoah University’s Conservatory, designing Bright Star, Nora: A Doll’s House, and The Bridges of Madison County (Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre), which earned a BroadwayWorld Regional Award nomination for Best Scenic Design.

His design and associate credits span prominent regional companies, including Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Incendiary, Assoc. Scenic Designer), Voice Theatre (Noises Off), and Artscentric, where he designed their performance space in Baltimore. His experience includes overhire support sourcing props and set dressing for the Broadway transfer of A Strange Loop.

James’s notable work also includes Monumental Theatre Company's Pippin (nominated for 4 Helen Hayes Awards) and Head Over Heels (featured in Metro Weekly), as well as In the Heights at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre (BroadwayWorld nomination). Early in his career, he was named a Campus MovieFest Silver Tripod Award winner for Best Production Design (Devil’s Grass) and was shortlisted for the SETC Ready to Work Award.

Over the course of his career, James has collaborated with leading industry figures, including Broadway actor and director Michael Park, choreographer Shannon Lewis, Broadway associate lighting designer Timothy Reed, Tony-winning designer Dede Ayite, and late Emmy-winning designer Bob Phillips (Sesame Street). Between 2017 and 2020, he served as Resident Scenic Designer, Technical Director, Master Carpenter, and Scenic Charge for Ovations Theatre, where he also created and supervised their student technical internship program. His experience is rounded out by scenic artistry and fabrication for major events like Pharrell Williams’s Something in the Water festival and EDC Las Vegas, alongside overhire work for institutions like the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Round House Theatre, ARTECHOUSE, and Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.