During her time as an actor, designer, and technical crew member in student-driven theater at MIT, Oloko has overseen the chaos of 'tech week,' where design decisions and rehearsals come together on a pressure-cooker timeline. She calls theater a team sport: 'If you mess something up or you drop the ball, it doesn't just impact you. It impacts the entire production and the entire end product,' she recounts. But just like team sports, theater is, at its heart, a kind of play, whether under the limelight, backstage, or in the classroom. 'We're always laughing during rehearsals or technical meetings because you're always surrounded by a bunch of other creative people. And you're bouncing ideas off each other as you're all bonded together by a common goal,' says Oloko. In the theater world, a team of designers, makers, and actors often bring a writer's script to the stage with the help of a director. Traditionally, design responsibilities in theater are taken on by different people '...
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