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INSTRUCTOR BIOS - Scenic Design
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 John
Ezell
(Hall Family Foundation Professor of Design) has designed
for Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Tony
Award winning Crossroads Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse,
Roundabout, Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Hong
Kong Repertory Theatre, Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen,
Swedish Riksteatern, and the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm,
Sweden. He has designed for dozens of regional theatres
including the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Repertory
Theatre of St. Louis, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Indiana
Rep, San Diego Old Globe, Williamstown and Berkshire Theatre
Festivals, Asolo Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre-Knoxville,
Chicago's Second City, PBS, and CBS Television. He is a
consultant to Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library and a participant in the exchange of theatre artists
with the Peoples' Republic of China. His drawings have been
exhibited in New York, San Diego, Prague, Brussels, and
Beijing. His work received the Award for Experimental
Television Art in Milan, the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting Award for Excellence, and nine Critics' Circle
Awards. He received Washington University's 2001
Distinguished Alumni Award and he was recently inducted into
the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the
Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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 Gene
Emerson Friedman
(Assistant
Professor of Scenic Design), an award-winning scenic designer,
is known especially for his work on Shakespeare and the American
musical. Professor Friedman has been awarded the prestigious
Peggy Ezekiel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Arts
by the United States Institute for Theater Technology for his
design drafting, the only time this award has ever been granted
in this field. He was recently cited as "a significant artistic
contributor" in the American Theater community. He teaches the
history of design and technology of world theater, drafting for
the theater and rendering techniques for the designer, as well
as contributing his insights in the scenic design master
classes. Professor Friedman has worked with George Abbott,
Gerald Freedman, Adrienne Kennedy and Vincent Dowling among
other theatrical luminaries. His work has been seen at the
Lincoln Center Institute, The Kennedy Center, Historic Ford's
Theater, the Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland, the
Nobel Fool Theater in Chicago, the Repertory Theater of St.
Louis, Stages Saint Louis and the Missouri Repertory Theater. He
is the Resident Scenic Designer at the Heart of America
Shakespeare Festival and the Architectural Historian for the
Zuni Pueblo's historic Spanish Mission; The Nuestra Senora de
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John Davis
Carroll
is an adjunct life drawing
professor in the M.F.A. program of Theatre Design at the
University of Missouri Kansas City and adjunct assistant
professor for the Visual Art Department of Johnson County
Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.
Carroll was born in New England in 1964. He attended Swain School of Design in
New Bedford, Massachusetts and graduated with a B.F.A. in Painting in 1987.
Swain was a small institution of less than 200 enrolled with about 20 majoring
in painting. The professors in the painting department had a uniquely strong
program with its history coming from the School of Hans Hofmann, Albers from
Yale and Cooper Union. It also had important figures in the world of painting
visiting the school, such as Wolf Kahn, Paul Georges, Leonard Anderson and
Gretna Campbell.
After graduating from Swain he entered Parsons School of Design in New York City
to study painting under Leland Bell and Paul Resika in 1988. Also, Larry Rivers
stepped in for a semester. Visiting artists included, Robert De Niro Sr., Nell
Blaine, Jane Freilicher and Leatrice Rose. The program accepted ten students a
year.
Graduating with a M.F.A. in Painting in 1990, Carroll lived in New York City for
another 3 years. In 1993 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he currently
resides with his wife and painter Marci Aylward. |
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