Ryan Davies
Ryan is excited to return to the Department of Theatre and Drama for the 2008/2009 academic year. He completed is MFA in Lighting Design from Indiana University in the spring of 2006.
After his graduation, Ryan became the Lighting Supervisor for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, winner of the 2008 Tony Award for the best regional theatre company in the United States. At Chicago Shakes Ryan designed the lighting for Funk It Up About Nothin (Jeff Recommended), Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, CPS Shakespeare! Hamlet, and CPS Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet. He also collaborated on productions including The Comedy of Errors, Othello, Cymbeline, Passions, Troilus and Cressida, The Three Musketeers, and Two Noble Kinsmen. Other Chicago design credits include Greasy Joan’s and Co’s production of The Misanthrope (Jeff Recommended), and Sansculottes Theatre Company’s production of Fear of a Hood.
Ryan’s lighting design has been seen in the IU productions of A Chorus Line, Arcadia, “MASTER HAROLD"...and the boys, Bat Boy- The Musical, Proof, and the Brown County Playhouse’s Smoke on the Mountain. Ryan also designed the lighting for the IU dance pieces “Joining Forces,” “The Return,” and “Our Nature.” Other Bloomington lighting design credits include Patty Red Pants at the Bloomington Playwright’s Project and Arcadia at the John Waldron Arts Center |