Prague Quadrennial

Magic Flute

Produced by Ithaca College

1991

USITT

The Miser

Juried Design Exposition, Milwaukee

1990

ACTF

Medea

First Place Award for Excellence in Design, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

1988

USITT

Revenger's Tragedy

Juried Design Exposition, Los Angeles

1988

Nebraska Repertory Theatre

ART, Jake’s Women

Summer 2001

Merry-Go-Round Playhouse

Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel

Summer 1999

Merry-Go-Round Playhouse

Grease, Fiddler on the Roof

Summers 1998-97

Wheelock Family Theatre

Fiddler on the Roof

October 1996

Cortland Repertory Theatre

You Can't Take It With You

Summer 1993

Cortland Repertory Theatre

Mornings at Seven, Bus Stop

Summer 1992

Hangar Theatre

Kiss Me Kate, Toys in the Attic

Summer 1990

Ithaca College

Magic Flute, Miser, Threepenny Opera, Othello

1988-present

University of WI-Madison

Medea, Rivals, The Abdication

1987-88

VEE Corporation

Production Numbers for Jim Henson's Muppet and Sesame Street Live! Touring Productions

1985-87

Cricket Theatre (LORT)

Northern Lights, Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1980-81

Assistant/Associate Professor Costume Design/History - Architectural History

Ithaca College

1988-Present

Guest Lecturer

University of Oregon/Eugene

1979 and 1985

Resident Designer/ Costume Shop Manager

Cricket Theatre (LORT) Minneapolis

1980-81

Men's Tailor

Guthrie Theatre (LORT) Minneapolis

1978-80

MFA

University of Wisconsin - Madison

1988

BFA

University of Minnesota - Duluth

1978

1991

Designs for Magic Flute (produced by Ithaca College) accepted for inclusion in the U. S. entry, "Mozart in America", for the 1991 Prague Quadrennial. One of 22 designers in the US honored to have designs accepted. The designs for Magic Flute were one of only three designs accepted into the juried International exhibit produced in an academic institution. The Magic Flute designs were the only accepted designs produced by an undergraduate institution. After being exhibited in Prague, the Gold Medal winning US entry, Mozart in America, was also presented at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the USITT Convention in Seattle, among other venues in the United States.

1990

Designs for The Miser (produced by Ithaca College) accepted into the United States Institute for Theatre Technology's (USITT's) national Juried Design Exposition, Art for the Stage, presented originally in Milwaukee at USITT's annual convention and subsequently in the exposition's tour of the United States which included the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. These were the only academically produced designs chosen for inclusion in the exhibit, all others chosen were produced by regional theatres. Supervised the two Ithaca College students' designs accepted for exhibition, which comprised two of the total seven undergraduate and graduate designs selected.

1988

Designs for Medea (produced by the University of Wisconsin) honored at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by receiving The American College Theatre Festival's First Place Award for Design Excellence.

1988

Designs for Revenger's Tragedy accepted into USITT's national Juried Design Exposition '88, originally presented at USITT's convention in Anaheim and in the exposition's subsequent US tour which included the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center.

February 1994

Designs for Magic Flute published as the cover art for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival XXVII's National Brochure.

March 1994

Co-Chaired: Annette Garceau: Retrospective of a World Class Draper for the 1994 USITT's Costume Design and Technology Commission at the National Conference in Nashville.

Summer 1993

Published : "The Young Designers' Forum," Theatre Design and Technology; Vol. XXIX, No. 3: pp. 43-44.

March 1993

Presented the designs for ThreePenny Opera (produced by Ithaca College) at the Costume Commission's meeting at the USITT conference in Wichita - one of 5 designers in the US to be selected.

January 1993

Participated in the American College Theatre Festival's Regional Convention held at Ithaca College and presented a workshop entitled Rendering Techniques. Mounted two student design exhibitions for the Festival.

Summer 1991

Published the designs for Magic Flute (produced by Ithaca College) in the Prague Quadrennial Catalogue (only 20% of the exhibited designs were chosen to be published).

Spring 1991

Published the designs for Magic Flute in Theatre Design and Technology; Vol. XXVII, No. 3, Special Supplement, p. 8.

Spring 1990

Published the designs for The Miser in Theatre Design and Technology; Vol.XXVI, No. 1, Center Supplement, p. 15.

July 1989

Invited Lecture; Cornell Adult University

Kiss Me Kate and Cole Porter

August 1988

Published the designs for Medea in Theatre Crafts.

Summer 1988

Published the designs for Medea in Theatre Design and Technology.

January 1989

Adjudicated the Student Design Competition for the American College Theatre Festival's regional convention held at SUNY Binghampton.

Spring 1988

Published the designs for Revenger's Tragedy in USITT's catalogue Design Exposition 1988.

November 1985

Invited Lecture; University of Oregon, Eugene

Altering the Human Form

September 1979

Invited Lecture; University of Oregon, Eugene Eighteenth Century Men's Tailoring Methods

October 1996

Fiddler on the Roof

Wheelock Family Theatre, Wheelock College, Boston

June 1993

You Can't Take it With You

Cortland Repertory Theatre

June 1992

Mornings at Seven and Bus Stop

Cortland Repertory Theatre

June 1990

Kiss Me Kate and Toys in the Attic

Hangar Theatre

June 1988

Haunted House Production Number - Breakdancing Armor

Blacklight Skating Production Number - "Outer Space" - Glow-in-the-Dark Space Creatures

Jim Henson's Sesame Street Live!

June 1988

Toyland Production Number - Clowns, Teddy Bears, Robots, and Tin Soldiers

Jim Henson's Muppet Babies Live!

January 1980

Northern Lights

Cricket Theatre

September 1979

The Last Unicorn

Illusion Theatre

September 1979

Tripping over the Cat and Java Jive

Ozone Dance Theatre Choreographed by Linda Shapiro

1985-87

Creature Shop Manager - Minneapolis

HA! Jim Henson Associates

1982-85

Touring Wardrobe Manager

Muppet and Sesame Street Productions

1980-81

Resident Designer/Costume Shop Manager

Cricket Theatre - Minneapolis

1981

Cutter

Pacific Northwest Ballet / Seattle Repertory Theatre

1978-81

Men's Tailor

Minnesota Dance Theatre

1978-80

Guthrie Theatre - Minneapolis

Men's Tailor