NOAH MEASE mixes text with images. he makes & gathers objects. he lives & works in NYC and on the internet.

photo by yang-yang chen (2018)

screencap by brendan aanes (2020)

videochat selfie (2021)

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noah's recent projects span theater & comics, two forms & fields engaged in the interplay of image, language & experience.
he uses art to research love & queerness, science & fiction, space & time, intimacy & melancholy, soul-stuff & magic.

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noah developed & presented text for performance with the support of the Ars Nova Play Group, Hoi Polloi, Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Playgroup and BRB Artist Residencies, Smith Street Stage, New Light Theatre Project, The Access Theater, Teatro IATI's Cimientos Writers Group, and Third Person (which he co-founded with Jay Stull & Ryan Courtney.) he is the prop designer of numerous plays and musicals, including Dave Malloy's NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET of 1812, Anaïs Mitchell's HADESTOWN, Daniel Fish's reorchestrated staging of OKLAHOMA!, Annie Baker's JOHN, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins AN OCTOROON, and productions of new work by Adrienne Kennedy, Mimi Lien & Pig Iron Theatre Company, The Debate Society, Jocelyn Bioh, The Bengsons & Sarah Gancher, César Alvarez & The Lisps, The Mad Ones, Jay Stull, T. Adamson, Jeremy O. Harris, Bess Wohl, Vinny DePonto, Zoe Kazan, and Ethan Coen. in 2016, he was awarded an OBIE for his work on JOHN, only the second ever given in recognition for props. beyond traditional prop duties, noah selected and arranged 300+ paintings on every wall of the Imperial Theater (and pop-up tent "Kazino," and the American Repertory Theater) for ...Great Comet, designed and sculpted the robot character Artie in After the Blast (LCT3), crafted plushies of the eponymous puppets in Mrs. Murray's Menagerie (Ars Nova), and drew a 24-page superhero comic for his own play, Omega Kids (NLTP), which was featured in Time Out NY as "the season's coolest prop." noah worked with The Tugboat Collective to adapt Sammy Harkam's nearly-wordless comic POOR SAILOR into a post-dramatic theater piece about the collective's own imminent dissolution, and adapted scenes from Jennifer Kidwell & Scott R. Shepherd's OBIE-winning play UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME into sequential art and illustrations for the published script. He designed and drew the webcomic A SMALL FAVOR by Caleb Palmquist and John Grimes (later printed by Enkidu Studios), and is a contributor to the ongoing anthology MODERN MYTHOLOGY (also Enkidu). his print-and-build papercraft project "six borgesian zines (series I)" was presented as part of the 2021 Queer Spectra Arts Festival. (updated: may 2021)

born & educated in vermont, noah makes a home in the south bronx. 

woodblock axolotls (2014)