Brenna Leaver is a multidisciplinary artist and creature creator who earned her BFA in Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Brenna specializes in costume and creature design, furniture, wood and metalworking, and jewelry and metalsmithing. This skillset crosses over cinematically into animation and narrative performance. In 2018, Brenna toured the US and Canada performing and constructing creatures with the Big Nazo Creature Band. In 2020, she worked under designer Misha Kahn in the construction of his exhibition “Soft Bodies, Hard Shapes.” One of her creations–a lonely cowboy creature named “Shave my Beard,”–won the RISD Industrial Design faculty award. Brenna’s work has also appeared in Baxter St at CCNY, Electric Zoo, and the Museum of Natural History.
Role: Co-director of Apex Ape, Production Designer, Co-writer