"The Kitchen"

There are 22 full-time faculty members in the School of Design & Production who teach the more than 150 courses offered each year. The faculty is a distinguished team of highly qualified working professionals with a wide range of backgrounds, expertise and vast industry contacts. These contacts account, in large part, for the exceptionally high employment record of the school's graduates.

Faculty members work hand-in-hand with students on the many productions given by the School of the Arts, and are readily accessible to offer individual guidance and consultation.

Joseph P. Tilford –Dean of the School of Design and Production
Dennis Gill Booth –Assistant Dean for Operations; Technical Direction Faculty
Howard C. Jones  –Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs; Director of the Scenic Art Program; Set Design and Scenic Art Faculty
Will Taylor –Director of the Visual Arts Program; Visual Arts Faculty

Dennis Gill Booth  –  Technical Direction Faculty
Bill Brewer – Costume Design Faculty
Mark E. Brown –Visual Arts Faculty, Sculpture
Jamie Call Blankinship –Stage Management Faculty
Norman Coates  –  Director of the Lighting Program; Lighting Design Faculty
John Coyne  –  Director of the Set Design Program; Set Design Faculty
Pamela C. Griffin  –  Visual Arts Faculty
Howard C. Jones  –  Director of the Scenic Art Program; Set Design and Scenic Art Faculty
Pam Knourek  –  Costume Technology Faculty
Frank Lombardi - Director of the Stage Management program; Stage Management Faculty
Michael Meyer  –  Director of the Wig and Makeup Program; Wig and Makeup Faculty
John H. Miller  –  Director of Stage Automation Program; Technical Direction and Stage Automation Faculty
Dave Olson  –  Director of the Performing Arts Management Program;  Performing Arts Management Faculty
M. Eric Rimes –Lighting Technology Faculty
Jason Romney –Sound Design Faculty
Eduardo Sicangco  –   Set Design Faculty
David E. Smith  –   Director of the Sound Design Program; Sound Design Faculty
Zachary Stevenson –Director of the Technical Direction Program; Technical Direction Faculty
Will Taylor –Director of the Visual Arts Program; Visual Arts Faculty
Christine Turbitt  –  Director of the Costume Design and Technology Program; Costume Design and Technology Faculty
Bill Volz - Technical Direction Faculty
Bland M. Wade Jr.  –  Director of the Stage Properties Program; Stage Properties Faculty

John Sneden, Dean Emeritus (1970)
A.B., M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor of drama and design, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C. Director of theatre, Davidson College. Designer, Arrow Rock Lyceum, the State Theatre of Missouri. Eight years as resident designer for the East Carolina Summer Music Theatre. Designer, the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Mass. Board of Directors, North Carolina Scenic Studios Inc. The founding Dean of the School of Design & Production, he developed the school into a highly respected and rigorous professional training program, and served as its Dean for 32 years.

Mark Pirolo, Director of Design (1972)
B.F.A. (Honors), Carnegie Mellon University. Designer: National Educational Television Biography Series; Pittsburgh Playhouse; Great Lakes Theater Festival; Theatre-by-the-Sea, Portsmouth, N.H.; North Carolina Dance Theatre; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; PlayMakers Repertory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Folger Theatre; Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Utah Shakespearean Festival. Recipient: Denver Drama Critics Award, Best Costumes. Helen Hayes Award nomination, Best Costumes. Interim Dean of the School of Design & Production, 2002-2003.

Clyde M. Fowler Jr.--Director of Visual Arts, Drawing, Advanced Drawing (1975)
B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University. Studied drawing at the National Academy of Fine Arts and at Art Students League, both in New York. Represented in the 40th annual North Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. One-person and group exhibitions at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Sawtooth Center for Visual Design, Wake Forest University, Weatherspoon Gallery-University of North Carolina at Greensboro, High Point Theatre Gallery.

Diane R. Berg, Costume Shop Director, Costume Faculty (1986)
DIANE R. BERG, BFA, (High Honors) West Virginia University.  MFA, University of North Carolina – Greensboro.  Company Tailor and Costume Shop Manager at Florida’s Asolo State Theatre.  Head of the MFA CostumeTechnology Programat Purdue University.  Commissioner of the USITT Costume Design and Technology Commission.  United States delegate to the OISTAT World Costume Congress.  USITT Fellow of the Institute.

Martha Dunigan--Instructor of Sculpture & Ceramics (1975)
Martha Dunigan taught sculpture, ceramics, and drawing for 26 years at the North Carolina School of the Arts.  She was also a founding member of Artworks Gallery, the Piedmont Triad's oldest artist-run cooperative gallery located in Winston-Salem's downtown art district since 1984. Ms. Dunigan held a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She was the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including being named 1994 Artist of the Year at the Sawtooth Center for Visual Design in North Carolina. She has exhibited in both solo and group shows at galleries and museums in New England and throughout the Southeast. Her work is included in many public and private collections including Wake Forest University, Barclays, Wachovia Bank & Trust, Graylyn Art Center and Mandala Art Center, among others.

In 2001, Artworks Gallery presented the Martha Dunigan Memorial Exhibition, which featured drawings, prints and sculptures from throughout her career before her death in June 2001.  Curated by Mackey Bane and Lee Hansley of Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, N.C., the exhibit ran from Sept. 11 through Oct. 13, 2001.  In 2002, a more expansive version of the exhibition, Martha Dunigan: A Tribute, traveled to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) for a run from May through July, and featured 90 works, including woodcuts, monoprints, drawings and sculptures, produced over the course of 35 years.

In 1999, the sculpture studio where Ms. Dunigan taught for so many years was razed by fire.  In July 2001, in recognition of Ms. Dunigan's years of contributions and service to the School and the community, the decision was made to name the new studio in her honor.  A bronze plaque of the rising sun, created by Ms. Dunigan's daughter, Breon, also a sculptor, now adorns the west exterior wall of the studio and reads, "Martha Dunigan Sculpture Studio."

Tribute Article

Marjorie Bradley Kellogg, Design
Keith Lewis*, Design
Lynn Pecktal, Design
Sean Reich, Stage Automation
Jose Varona, Design
Brannon Wiles, Performing Arts Management

Sharon Hardin, Visual Arts
Kathryn Grillo, Costumes
Milton Rhodes, Performing Arts Management
Robert Friend, Performing Arts Management
Peggy Joines, Performing Arts Management

Each year, the School of Design & Production brings a number of distinguished professional artists and craftsmen to campus to give master classes, workshops and demonstrations to enhance the regular program of study. Such sessions can range from a day or two to several weeks. Guest artists are especially important to students' study during Intensive Arts, a two-week period prior to the Christmas holidays when regular classes are suspended and students work exclusively on arts projects and attend special workshops in their specialization. Recent guest artists have included the following:

Commercial Theatre:
Emanuel Azenberg, Ted Chapin, Patricia Crown, Susan Gallin, Elizabeth McCann, David Richards

Costume design:
Lewis Brown, David Burke, Jess Goldstein, Rosemary Ingham, Ann Roth, Austin Sanderson*, Paul Tazewell*, Freddy Wittop

Development:
Margaret Collins, Holly Marion, Dale Nettnin

Dyeing and Crafts:
Irene Corey, Marliss Borenz Jensen

General management and labor:
George Elmer, Paul King, Thomas Short

Graphic and commercial design:
Duane Langenwalter*, Maureen Trotto

Lighting design:
Loren Barton, Michael DiBiasi, Paul Gregory, Bobby Harrell, John McKernon*, Stuart Nelson*, Jonathan Speirs

Lighting technology:
David Brooks*, Walt Dowling, Hugh Hardyman*, Jessi Harris*, Eric Ludacer*, George Masek, Al Ridella, Josh Selander*, Jayme Walsh

Marketing and Public Relations:
Chris Boneau, Nancy Coyne, Siobhan Olson

Mold-making and casting:
Bob Warner

Production design:
Wynn Thomas

Prosthetics:
Mark Boley, Brad Look

Scene design:
Campbell Baird*, John Farrell

Scene and costume design:
Desmond Heeley

Scene painting:
Susan Crabtree, Jenny Knott

Sound design:
Clay Benning*, Curtis Craig, Drew Dalzel, Jonathon Deans, Mike Hooker, Abe Jacob, Brett Jarvis*, Robert Kirk, John Leonard, Tom Mardikes, Michel Marrano*, Cliff Miller, David Moulton, John Taylor

Stage Automation:
Bob Goddard

Stage Management:
Artie Gaffin, Shawn Gresser*, Thomas Kelly, Peter Lawrence, Frank Lombardi, Ellen Schlaefer, Judy Schoenfeld*, Barclay Stiff*
                            
Stage Properties:
Jim Guy

Technical theatre and stage rigging:
Harry Donovan, Jay Glerum

Theatre History:
Jarka Burian

Theatrical millinery:
Bill Brewer, Marcy Wilbur Linton*
 
3-D visualization:
George Sampedro

Visual Arts:
Vivian Beer, Barry Bailey, Cristina Córdova, Ellen Dissanayake, Richard Hunt, Suzanne Lacey, David LaChapelle*, Anne Lemanski, Stephanie Sherman/Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Jeff Pike, Jim Wheeler, Clark Whittington

Wig and Makeup design:
Marietta Carter-Narcisse

* Denotes University of North Carolina School of the Arts Alumni