Hello, I’m Sayoko.

I’ve dedicated my craft and career to multisensory worldbuilding and storytelling in the collaborative arts.  “An environment with worth a million words” is a design principle deeply rooted in my formative years as an immigrant and playing in orchestras, where I developed my appreciation for nonverbal languages and symphonic creations. 

Always grounded in working with ‘space’ as the core medium, I pursued my undergraduate studies in Architecture at the University of Cincinnati and my early career in New York’s advertising industry as an experiential art director and designer. 

In 2018, I founded my practice SAYOKO OSADA STUDIO, offering design and direction, evolving focuses from spatial to films to animations, to now multimedia live / experiential. 

As one of the few Asian female stage designers and part of the 0.1% of female founders in U.S. live entertainment, I am committed to pushing creative boundaries and amplifying diverse perspectives in the industry.

-Sayoko