Torry Bend is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Duke’s Theater Studies Department, where she teaches the design classes and designs the sets for the department’s main productions. Her set designs have appeared at major venues around the country: Are They Edible, presented at La Mama, Incubator Arts Project and Dixon’s Place, a Southwest Shakespeare Company production of Pygmalion, and Stephen Wadsworth's Agamemnon at the Getty Villa, among others. She’s a 2007 graduate of the MFA program in Scene Design at California Institute of the Arts.