Michael Franklin-White
Scene Designer, Digital Design, Scenic Artist
Education
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts,
Post-graduate Studies in Scene Design and Scene Painting, 1980 - 1982
University of Connecticut, Storrs, M.F.A., Scene Design, 1980
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.F.A. (Honors), Graphic Design, 1976
Post-graduate Studies in Scene Design and Scene Painting, 1980 - 1982
University of Connecticut, Storrs, M.F.A., Scene Design, 1980
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.F.A. (Honors), Graphic Design, 1976
Professional Membership
United Scenic Artists, Local 829, Scenic Design & Scenic Art; USITT; OISTAT
Academic Experience
Associate Professor in Residence, Dramatic Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs
2003-2011 (Digital Design and Scene Painting)
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1994-2001 (Head of Scene Design)
Lecturer, Dramatic Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs 1992-1994
Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Dance, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut 1992-1994
2003-2011 (Digital Design and Scene Painting)
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1994-2001 (Head of Scene Design)
Lecturer, Dramatic Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs 1992-1994
Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Dance, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut 1992-1994
Professional Experience (set design)
Illinois Shakespeare Festival, 2011
A Winter’s Tale, dir: Deb Alley; Romeo and Juliet, dir: Doug Finlayson;
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, abridged, dir: William Jenkins
Illinois Shakespeare Festival, 2006
Pericles, dir.: Henry Woronicz
Summerfest 2004, Krannert Center, Urbana, Illinois
Parfumerie, dir.: Peter Reynolds; Gulity Conscience, dir.: William Martin; Glass Menagerie,
dir.: Matthew Reeder
Corporate Scenographics, Wickford, RI 02852 (2001- 2003)
Corporation Meetings & Launches; work utilizes computer design programs: AutoCAD,
Accurender & Photoshop. Designs for Pfizer, Gleevec, Purdue, McDonalds, Coors,
Merck, Purdu, State Farm Insurance, PBS (Suzi Orman)
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell, Massachusetts
K-2 1999, director: Robert Walsh; Don’t Dress for Dinner, director: David Zofolli;
All in the Timing 1995; director: David Zofolli;
Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten 1994, director: David Zofolli;
God''s Country 1993, director: David Kent;
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1993,
director: Daniel Shay, (adaptation of a design by Gary English)
Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville, Tennessee
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1999, director: Liviu Ciulei,
(adaptation of design by Liviu Ciulei) co-designer: Lee Boyer;
Dancing at Laughnasa 1998, director: Elizabeth Craven
Mossovet Theatre, Moscow, Russia
Beirut 1998, director: Joshua Karter
Music Great West, Tri-State Music Festival, Paris, Idaho
First Cast a Stone 1998, director: Alexander Gelman, co-designer: Lee Boyer
The Huntington Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
Breaking Ground (a series of new plays with staged readings) 199
directors: Jayme Koszyn, Maureen Shay, David Wheeler, Garry Mitchell
Nikitsky Gates Theatre, Moscow, Russia
Talley''s Folly (Russian premiere) 1994, director: Joshua Karter
Recontres Musicales d'' Evian, Evian, France
Lygeia (premiere) 1994, musical director: Mstislav Rostropovitch, director: Roger Brunyate
Chiswick Park Theatre, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Sight Unseen 1994, director: Jayme Koszyn
Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Storrs, Connecticut, includes:
Pericles 2009, director: Dale Rose;
Into The Woods 2005, director: Cary Libkin;
Carnival 2001, director: Kieth Lee Grant;
A Little Night Music 1999, director: Gary English;
Rumors 1994, director: Nafe Katter;
The Belle of Amherst (with Kim Hunter) 1993, director: Peter Bennett;
Company One, Hartford, Connecticut
Combination Skins 1993, director: Valerie Curtis-Stevens
Forum Theatre Group, Metuchen, New Jersey
Heidi Chronicles 1993, director: Peter Loewy
The Producing Guild, Hartford, Connecticut
Rumors 1993, director: Sal Marchese
Seven Stages, Atlanta, Georgia
Vivisections 1992, director: Clinton Turner-Davis
Arena Stage, Washington, DC
Vivisections (premiere) 1991, director: Clinton Turner-Davis;
American Splendor (premiere) 1987, director: James Nicola
Design Associate for Thomas Cariello and Associates, 1989-1992
Corporate sets: Ford Mercury Leasing, Merck "Proscar" Launch,
Volvo 850 Launch, McDonalds Summer Tour 1992; Merck Meeting,
Johnson & Johnson Executive Meeting, Avon Hong Kong Meeting 1991;
McDonalds Owner/Operator Convention, McDonalds Summer Tour,
IBM Meeting 1990; State Farm Convention 1989;
Theatre: Ubu Repertory, New York, Assisi 1991;
Roundabout Theatre, New York, Member of the Wedding 1989, director: Hal Scott
Assistant Designer for Liviu Ciulei, 1989-1991
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, Washington, Six Characters 1991, director: Liviu Ciulei;
Teatro Musicale, Florence, Italy, Pelleas et Melisande 1989, director: Liviu Ciulei;
American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Platonov 1989, director: Liviu Ciulei
New Playwright''s Theatre, Washington, DC
Speaking in Tongues (premiere) 1988, director: Peter Frish;
Brotherhood (premiere) 1987, director: Arthur Bartow
Wooly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC
Life & Limb 1987, director: Kim Peter Kovak;
To Clothe the Naked 1987, director: Howard Shalwitz
Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Blithe Spirit 1982, director: Charles Vaughn
A Winter’s Tale, dir: Deb Alley; Romeo and Juliet, dir: Doug Finlayson;
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, abridged, dir: William Jenkins
Illinois Shakespeare Festival, 2006
Pericles, dir.: Henry Woronicz
Summerfest 2004, Krannert Center, Urbana, Illinois
Parfumerie, dir.: Peter Reynolds; Gulity Conscience, dir.: William Martin; Glass Menagerie,
dir.: Matthew Reeder
Corporate Scenographics, Wickford, RI 02852 (2001- 2003)
Corporation Meetings & Launches; work utilizes computer design programs: AutoCAD,
Accurender & Photoshop. Designs for Pfizer, Gleevec, Purdue, McDonalds, Coors,
Merck, Purdu, State Farm Insurance, PBS (Suzi Orman)
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell, Massachusetts
K-2 1999, director: Robert Walsh; Don’t Dress for Dinner, director: David Zofolli;
All in the Timing 1995; director: David Zofolli;
Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten 1994, director: David Zofolli;
God''s Country 1993, director: David Kent;
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1993,
director: Daniel Shay, (adaptation of a design by Gary English)
Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville, Tennessee
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1999, director: Liviu Ciulei,
(adaptation of design by Liviu Ciulei) co-designer: Lee Boyer;
Dancing at Laughnasa 1998, director: Elizabeth Craven
Mossovet Theatre, Moscow, Russia
Beirut 1998, director: Joshua Karter
Music Great West, Tri-State Music Festival, Paris, Idaho
First Cast a Stone 1998, director: Alexander Gelman, co-designer: Lee Boyer
The Huntington Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
Breaking Ground (a series of new plays with staged readings) 199
directors: Jayme Koszyn, Maureen Shay, David Wheeler, Garry Mitchell
Nikitsky Gates Theatre, Moscow, Russia
Talley''s Folly (Russian premiere) 1994, director: Joshua Karter
Recontres Musicales d'' Evian, Evian, France
Lygeia (premiere) 1994, musical director: Mstislav Rostropovitch, director: Roger Brunyate
Chiswick Park Theatre, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Sight Unseen 1994, director: Jayme Koszyn
Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Storrs, Connecticut, includes:
Pericles 2009, director: Dale Rose;
Into The Woods 2005, director: Cary Libkin;
Carnival 2001, director: Kieth Lee Grant;
A Little Night Music 1999, director: Gary English;
Rumors 1994, director: Nafe Katter;
The Belle of Amherst (with Kim Hunter) 1993, director: Peter Bennett;
Company One, Hartford, Connecticut
Combination Skins 1993, director: Valerie Curtis-Stevens
Forum Theatre Group, Metuchen, New Jersey
Heidi Chronicles 1993, director: Peter Loewy
The Producing Guild, Hartford, Connecticut
Rumors 1993, director: Sal Marchese
Seven Stages, Atlanta, Georgia
Vivisections 1992, director: Clinton Turner-Davis
Arena Stage, Washington, DC
Vivisections (premiere) 1991, director: Clinton Turner-Davis;
American Splendor (premiere) 1987, director: James Nicola
Design Associate for Thomas Cariello and Associates, 1989-1992
Corporate sets: Ford Mercury Leasing, Merck "Proscar" Launch,
Volvo 850 Launch, McDonalds Summer Tour 1992; Merck Meeting,
Johnson & Johnson Executive Meeting, Avon Hong Kong Meeting 1991;
McDonalds Owner/Operator Convention, McDonalds Summer Tour,
IBM Meeting 1990; State Farm Convention 1989;
Theatre: Ubu Repertory, New York, Assisi 1991;
Roundabout Theatre, New York, Member of the Wedding 1989, director: Hal Scott
Assistant Designer for Liviu Ciulei, 1989-1991
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, Washington, Six Characters 1991, director: Liviu Ciulei;
Teatro Musicale, Florence, Italy, Pelleas et Melisande 1989, director: Liviu Ciulei;
American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Platonov 1989, director: Liviu Ciulei
New Playwright''s Theatre, Washington, DC
Speaking in Tongues (premiere) 1988, director: Peter Frish;
Brotherhood (premiere) 1987, director: Arthur Bartow
Wooly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC
Life & Limb 1987, director: Kim Peter Kovak;
To Clothe the Naked 1987, director: Howard Shalwitz
Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Blithe Spirit 1982, director: Charles Vaughn
Set Design for Academic Institutions
Department of Theatre, Indian State University at Terre Haute
Cherry Orchard 2002, director: Joshua Karter, with the Moscow Arts Theatre Studio
Laramie Project 2002, director: Bill Fennelly
Department of Modern Dance, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Assistant & Set Design consultant to Koyoko Ibe for the 2001 Modern Dance Festival
Department of Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, includes:
Romeo and Julliet 2000, director: Thomas Mitchell
A Tale of Two Cities 1997, director: Thomas Mitchell;
When You Coming Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean,
Jimmy Dean 1998, director: Sara Lampert-Hoover;
Translations 1997, director: Christine Sevec-Johnson;
School for Wives 1996, director: Thomas Mitchell;
Beauty and the Beast 1996, director: Nancy Hovasse;
Measure for Measure 1996, director: David Knight,
Henceforward 1995, director: Wendy McClure;
I Hate Hamlet 1995, director Nancy Hovasse;
O Pioneers 1994, director: Thomas Mitchell
Department of Dance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Festival ’98 1998, collaboration with international paper artist, Kyoko Ibe
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, Michigan
Sweeny Todd 1997, director: Thomas Mitchell
School of Music Opera Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Don Giovanni 1995, director: Robert DeSimone
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Mary Barnes 1994, director: Joshua Karter
Peabody Opera Theatre, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Lygeia 1994;
The Turn of the Screw 1990;
Hansel & Gretel 1989;
The Rape of Lucrecia 1988, director: Roger Brunyate
Maryland Opera Studio, College Park, Maryland
Carmen 1991, director: Rhoda Levine;
Maria Elena 1990, director: Rhoda Levine;
On the Bridge 1990, director: Rhoda Levine;
Agrippina 1990, director: Leon Major
The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
L'' Enfante et les Sortileges, Gianni Schicchi 1989;
The Rape of Lucrecia 1988, director: Roger Brunyate
East Carolina University Theatre, Greenville, North Carolina
Steel Magnolias 1988;
1940''s Radio Hour 1984
Cherry Orchard 2002, director: Joshua Karter, with the Moscow Arts Theatre Studio
Laramie Project 2002, director: Bill Fennelly
Department of Modern Dance, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Assistant & Set Design consultant to Koyoko Ibe for the 2001 Modern Dance Festival
Department of Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, includes:
Romeo and Julliet 2000, director: Thomas Mitchell
A Tale of Two Cities 1997, director: Thomas Mitchell;
When You Coming Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean,
Jimmy Dean 1998, director: Sara Lampert-Hoover;
Translations 1997, director: Christine Sevec-Johnson;
School for Wives 1996, director: Thomas Mitchell;
Beauty and the Beast 1996, director: Nancy Hovasse;
Measure for Measure 1996, director: David Knight,
Henceforward 1995, director: Wendy McClure;
I Hate Hamlet 1995, director Nancy Hovasse;
O Pioneers 1994, director: Thomas Mitchell
Department of Dance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Festival ’98 1998, collaboration with international paper artist, Kyoko Ibe
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, Michigan
Sweeny Todd 1997, director: Thomas Mitchell
School of Music Opera Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Don Giovanni 1995, director: Robert DeSimone
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Mary Barnes 1994, director: Joshua Karter
Peabody Opera Theatre, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Lygeia 1994;
The Turn of the Screw 1990;
Hansel & Gretel 1989;
The Rape of Lucrecia 1988, director: Roger Brunyate
Maryland Opera Studio, College Park, Maryland
Carmen 1991, director: Rhoda Levine;
Maria Elena 1990, director: Rhoda Levine;
On the Bridge 1990, director: Rhoda Levine;
Agrippina 1990, director: Leon Major
The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
L'' Enfante et les Sortileges, Gianni Schicchi 1989;
The Rape of Lucrecia 1988, director: Roger Brunyate
East Carolina University Theatre, Greenville, North Carolina
Steel Magnolias 1988;
1940''s Radio Hour 1984
Scenic Charge Artist
Arena Stage, Washington, DC, 1982-1988
The Washington (National) Opera, Washington, DC, 1984-1993
The Washington (National) Opera, Washington, DC, 1984-1993
Exhibit Design
The United States Information Agency, Theatre Exhibit, Prague 1987
Photographic Exhibit Set Design for Charles Rumph and the New York Photography Institute, 1986
The Library of Congress, Rare Book Exhibit, 1984
Photographic Exhibit Set Design for Charles Rumph and the New York Photography Institute, 1986
The Library of Congress, Rare Book Exhibit, 1984