Paole is a grad student earning her MFA in Theater in Scenic Design, previously having earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media (‘18) both at Penn State University. She is originally from Huancayo, Peru, and hopes to design for stories for both film and theatre productions as well as discover art itself. Paole would additionally like to highlight her animated series, Juno, Bike's Diary, which is an animated film that has been selected for serveral prestigious international markets such as Pixelatl (Mexico), Ventana Sur (Argentina), and the Quirino Awards (Spain). Facts: my multidisciplinary work is in different medias, handmade crafts, papercraft, stop-motion, and live action.

Favorite Memory: Decorating for the hallucination scene. We were all together in a room full of kids’ toys, and she asked my team to draw like children, using different colors and tapping into her childhood imagination.