SHAWN S CRAWFORD
Scenery & Lighting Designer / Technical Director

scrawford@gsarts.net

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Scene Design: University of Mississippi
M.F.A. Theatre Management: Carnegie Mellon University
M.F.A. Theatre Design: University of Memphis
Currently Designer/Technical Director Governor’s School for the Arts

DESIGN EXPERIENCE
I have designed over 100 professional and educational productions ranging from original works to musicals, realistic to fantasy, and historical to surreal. I have been directly involved in the scenic painting of all of my scene designs. Some designs include:
NORFOLK VA:  A Servant of Two Masters, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Antigone, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Galileo, Metamorphosis, Little Shop of Horrors, Tempest (Portfolio Award), Peace (Director), 1984, Chicago, Little Theatre of the Green Goose, Dracula --Governor’s School for the Arts, To Kill A Mockingbird (Co-Director), The Boys Next Door -- Little Theatre of Norfolk, Three Days of Rain -- Generic Theatre
BANGOR ME: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Christmas Carol, Fantasticks --Penobscot
MEMPHIS TN: Hayfever, Dreamgirls, Master Class, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cabaret, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Tartuffe, Three Tall Women (Memphis Arts Council/Memphis Magazine Excellence in Set Design Award), Steel Magnolias, Sisters Rosensweig -- Playhouse on the Square Private Lives -- Circuit Playhouse, Lysistrata Erotica, Top Girls, Hello Again -- U. Memphis, Shakin the Mess Outta Misery -- Memphis Black Repertory Theatre
JACKSON MS: The All Night Strut-- New Stage Theatre
COLUMBUS MS: Collected Stories (Lights), Tapestry, The All Night Strut, Medea Mother Hicks -- MUW
PITTSBURGH PA: Extremities -- Axiom Theatre, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel --Pittsburgh Playhouse, The Shriveled Arm of Uma Kimbel -- Pyramid Productions, 1911 – Flying Pig Theatre, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Life With Mother, Rumors, Into the Woods -- Sherwood Forest Theatre, Snake in the Vein, Beirut, A View From the Bridge, Breaking the Code, Prelude to a Kiss, As Is -- Upstairs Theater.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
All areas of Theatre Design and Technology including: Scenery, Lighting & Costume Design, Makeup, Scene Painting, Model Making, Rendering, Stagecrafts, as well as Theatre History.  I am responsible for building/painting/lighting our productions as well as the organization and maintenance of the Scene Shop, Paint Shop and Light Booth. I design the Scenery and Lighting for most of the Governor’s school Theatre productions.

SCENIC ARTIST EXPERIENCE
I have been Scenic Charge and Scenic Artist for over 100 professional and educational productions including my own designs.
In Pittsburgh PA: If We Are Women, Slavs, Fires in the Mirror, All in the Timing, Loot, From the Mississippi Delta, Lips Together Teeth Apart, Baltimore Waltz -- CITY THEATRE (Scenic Charge for three seasons), Westside Story-- GARGARO PRODUCTIONS, One Mo Time, Harvey-- HARTWOOD ACRES.