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Heather Reynolds

Assistant Professor of Lighting Design
School of Theatre and Dance
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Biography

Heather received her BA in Theatre from Florida State University, and recieved her MFA in Lighting Design from the University of Maryland - College Park. Selected credits include Disaster (Arizona Broadway Theatre) The Voices on Blackwell Island (Signature Theatre Company), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (University of Maryland), La Bohéme (Maryland Opera Studio), Head Over Heels (George Mason University), Urinetown, Assassins, and The Laramie Project for Southern Utah University, Hamlet (Utah Shakespeare Festival), The Buddy Holly Story (The Palace Theatre in the Dells) and A Christmas Story (Arizona Broadway Theatre). She has also worked with Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Vineyard Theatre, the Folger Theatre, the Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Maine State Music Theatre, and Sundance Summer Theatre.

Her research interests lie in continued creative activity as a lighting designer, and in developing alternative tools for lighting designers using 3D printing and other consumer manufacturing technologies. In her free time she hangs out with her dog, Diana, and hunts for the perfect al pastor taco. Her portfolio can be found at https://www.hreynoldsdesign.com/.

Current Courses

464.001Advanced Projects In Design

361.001Advanced Stage Lighting

457.001Advanced Stage Lighting

462.001Graduate Lighting Laboratory: Communication Tools

261.001Lighting For Stage

501.001M.F.A. Portfolio: Lighting Design

302.004Theatre Practicum

291.002Undergraduate Teaching Experience In Theatre

MFA Lighting Design

University of Maryland
College Park, MD

BA Theatre

Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL