Aya Giardina is a third-year Technical Direction MFA candidate here at UNLV, and she has a BA in Theatre Production and Design from Virginia Tech. Her most recent in Las Vegas credits include being the technical director of Passage, Hedda Gabler, The Underpants, and Wolf Play at Nevada Conservatory Theatre, as well as The Three Feathers with the UNLV Opera Theatre. She has also been the technical director of Once Upon a Mattress, Taming of the Shrew, and Placebo at The Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts.