The Joie Story
One vision. Two creatives. Endless possibilities.
Joie was founded from a shared vision: to create entertainment design where scenic and lighting are conceived as one unified language. Built on years of collaboration and trust, Joie reflects a belief that the strongest work emerges when designers think beyond their individual disciplines and toward the whole experience.
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We are best friends and longtime collaborators who design better together. When Leah designs scenery, she considers how light will shape it. When Martha designs lighting, she considers how space gives it meaning. Our process is integrated, iterative, and deeply collaborative—ideas overlap, evolve, and strengthen through constant exchange.
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The name Joie, meaning joy in French, captures the spirit of our work. We bring joy to the process, to the partnership, and to the final result—creating environments that are cohesive, intentional, and resonant.
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At Joie, design is not just about aesthetics or execution—it is about connection. Between disciplines. Between collaborators. And between story and space.
Artistic Vision
We design with intention, shaping light and space in service of story. Our work blurs the boundaries between disciplines, blending artistic intuition with technical precision to craft worlds that resonate, uplift, and endure.
Creative Vision
Joie creates unified visual experiences through seamlessly integrated design, where every element works as one cohesive vision—because when creativity meets connection, extraordinary things happen.​
Mission Statment
Joie partners with creative teams and producers to craft fully integrated scenic and lighting design for live entertainment. Rooted in collaboration and driven by story, we lead a thoughtful, responsive process that brings bold ideas to life with clarity, cohesion, and creative integrity.
Senographer
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Leah Mazur
Leah Mazur is a multidisciplinary scenographer—working across scenic, lighting, and costume design—and a visual artist based in the DFW metroplex.
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Her work explores the convergence of audience experience, performance, and emerging technologies, with a focus on XR (extended reality) as a tool for accessibility and expanded storytelling. Leah designs nationally and internationally, prioritizing new work and collaborative, femme-led creative teams. Select credits include scenic design for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Dallas Theater Center, as well as projects with RuPaul’s DragCon and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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She is a professional member of the United States Institute of Technical Theatre (USITT) and currently serves as Head of the Design & Technology BFA Program at the University of Texas at Arlington.
The Partnership
Martha Carter
Martha Carter is a Los Angeles–based lighting designer and educator, serving as Associate Professor and Head of Design at California State University Long Beach.
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Her work spans theatre, opera, dance, and live events, with national and international credits. Martha’s practice centers on collaborative, story-driven design, blending inventive, practical solutions with curiosity and expansive, out-of-the-box thinking. She frequently works with dance and interdisciplinary performance teams, bringing a movement-forward sensibility to her lighting work.
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Select projects include premieres at the Under the Radar Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and operatic productions with Madison Opera. Through both her professional practice and academic leadership, Martha is committed to design that fosters connection, joy, and meaningful impact.
