Scenography - The Theatre Design Website

Start date: August 2009

The position requires a commitment to a small but growing undergraduate Theatre Arts program with a liberal arts mission. Major duties include curricular coordination of the design/tech area, development of a scenographically-focused design curriculum with an interdisciplinary and global perspective, and the mentoring and advising of undergraduates.  We expect the maintenance of a professional freelance design career, and there may be design assignments within the USD/Old Globe MFA program.  Terminal degree preferred but not required. Send two hard copies and one electronic copy of your letter of application, CV, three letters of recommendation and work samples by February 2, 2009 to:

        Robert Barry Fleming, Chair of Search Committee
        Theatre Arts Program
        University of San Diego
        5998 Alcalá Park
        San Diego, CA 92110-2492

        rfleming@sandiego.edu

University of San Diego is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong institutional commitment to excellence through diversity.

Dressing Shakespeare : Clothing Designed by Jenny Tiramani

This exhibition was conceived as part of the Society of British Theatre Designers’ Collaborators exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum. It has been mounted at Nottingham Trent University to celebrate the inauguration of theatre designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani as Visiting Professor of Costume.

This compelling exhibition provides a window into the world of real Jacobean clothing. It includes three realised costumes designed by Jenny for the world-renowned Globe Theatre in London; original 17th century clothing artefacts and fascinating glimpses into the elaborate process of dressing the actors.

Jenny Tiramani

Dressing Shakespeare is a unique resource for students, teachers and anyone interested in historical clothing, textiles, art and performance. For information on related workshops and seminars, visit www.theatredesign.org.uk or telephone 0115 848 2832.

Date: 1 December 2008 - 21 January 2009

Venue: Nottingham Trent University, 1851 Gallery, Waverley Building, Waverley Street, Nottingham NG7 4HF

Opening times: Monday to Friday 10 am to 5pm

Admission: Free

The School of Creative Arts at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology will be launching Irelands first B.A. Honours Degree in Design for Stage and Screen  in September 2009.

Previously  this area of study was available in Ireland only as a one year add on degree at Dun Laoghaire.

The programme is being developed by   a team of academics, designers and craftspeople  led by Programmme Coordinator,  and  ex Senior RTE Production Designer, Patrick Molloy and including;  Alan Farquharson (also Ex Senior  Designer at RTE, Eurovision Designer, Film and Theatre Design) , costume designer Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh, (Brideshead Revisited, Strength and Honour),  Makeup designer Toni Delaney (In the name of the Father, Far and Away) and Liam Doona ( theatre designer and ex head of theatre design at Nottingham Trent University). The programme will allow students to specialize in either Production Design and Art Direction ( theatre, film and television ), Costume Design and Construction  or MakeUp. Students will benefit from excellent resources and collaborative opportunities across the departments of Film and Media and Art and Design.    

 The programme will be a part of the National Film School of Ireland which is based with The School of Creative Arts and will offer placement  opportunities with  key Irish Theatre, Film and Television producers.

 The programme will be designed to enable students from other programmmes and countries to study for short periods both as part of ERASMUS and through other institutional links and will provide a highly distinctive  student experience , benefitting from the unique opportunities provided by the four year Irish honours degree and  the film , theatre and television industries in Ireland.

Further information  is available from the IADT website www.iadt.ie

Masterclass runs an Apprentice Scheme in collaboration with the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company which launched in September 2007. The first season, artistically led by director Jonathan Kent, saw nine Masterclass apprentices work with the production team on The Country Wife, The Sea and Marguerite.

The Theatre Royal Haymarket Company returns to the stage at the beginning of 2009. Masterclass is delighted to again be offering young people the opportunity to work alongside the new team, led by director Sean Mathias on a thrilling production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

The aim of the apprentice scheme is to open up opportunities for people who have already demonstrated a desire to work as a director, designer or technician / stage manager, but have yet to experience working on a large-scale West End production. Waiting For Godot will do a No.1 UK venue tour before transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, making this an exceptional project to be involved in.

All apprentice posts are open to application from anyone aged 17 – 30 yrs not currently in education. 

This major exhibition draws historic materials from the Library’s collections plus a wide range of costumes, set models, renderings and other items borrowed from designers across the U.S. It is curated by noted costume designer Carrie Robbins and theatre historian Barbara Cohen-Stratyner.

A collaboration with the League of Professional Theatre Women, this exhibition features works by 110 distinguished designers of scenery, costumes, lighting, props, and projections from various performing arts disciplines, including dance, theater, and opera, from the 1890s to the present. Including photographs, sketches, drawings, set models, costumes, performance videos, ground plans, and interviews with designers, augmented by public programs and educational workshops, it focuses on women designers as participants in the major artistic movements of the period, from experimental theater through the development of modern and, later, postmodern, dance. The exhibition also illuminates women’s roles in developing new technologies and materials for performance: for example, women took the lead in the new field of lighting design, from turn-of-the-19th-century experiments to the computerization of cues in the 20th century. The exhibition also investigates the connections among women designers and women-run businesses. This exhibition is made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Location : New York Public Library

Dates : From Monday, November 17, 2008 to Saturday, May 2, 2009

Exhibition Hours : Tues, Wed & Fri: 11 to 6; Mon, Thurs: 12 to 8; Sat: 10 to 6