Michael Skinner
Lighting Design

Michael Skinner (Lighting Design) is an Associate Professor of Theatre and the Lighting Designer at Texas Christian University. He received his B.A. in technical theatre from West Texas State University and his M.F.A. in Lighting Design and Production from the University of Oklahoma. He has designed the lighting for over eighty productions of theatre, opera, and dance in various venues. Michael has had the pleasure of designing in Italy, Germany, and Russia, including the Russian premiere of the American musical The Fantasticks at Theatre Koleso in Togliatti, Russia. Michael has designed for Contemporary Ballet Dallas, with designs including An Evening with Hans Christian Andersen, Champagne Kisses and Cadaver Dreams, and Terpshichores World as well as Ector Theatricals’ Beauty and the Beast and Anything Goes. Some of Michael’s most recent work include Tribute to Life, a multimedia tribute to Bock and Harnick performed at the William Inge Theatre Festival, Amphibian Productions’ Miss Witherspoon and This is How it Goes, as well as scenery for A Lesson Before Dying, and scenery and lighting for Permanent Collection at Jubilee Theater. Michael’s work outside the theatre also includes corporate event design and production with companies such as Ignition! Creative Group and ZOOM.7, Inc., working on such projects as the Kawasaki Motors New Product Showcase and Mary Kay Inc, Seminar as well as projects for Sprint, The Pampered Chef, and The Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Michael is a member of The United States Institute for Theatre Technology and serves as sponsor for the TCU student chapter. Michael was honored in 2005 by the Texas Educational Theatre Association as the Featured Designer for Design Southwest, an exhibit of theatrical design in Texas. In 2005 Michael was inducted into the Branding Iron Theater Hall of Fame by his alma mater WTAMU.

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