John T. Murphy 6247 Appleridge Drive · Boardman, Ohio 44512 · Phone 330.406.1254 · E-Mail: [email protected]
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John T. Murphy 6247 Appleridge Drive · Boardman, Ohio 44512 · phone 330.406.1254 · e-mail: [email protected] SELECTED WORK HISTORY 1993 to present Professor, NAST Accredited, BA and BFA programs in Theater. Youngstown State University , Youngstown, Ohio. 2005 – present. Professor of Design, Department of Theater and Dance 1999 – 2004. Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Theater 1993 – 1998. Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Theater 1985 to 1992 Director of Special Projects, Operating Board of Directors. Old Tucson Movie Studios and Theme Park , Tucson, Arizona. Administration and supervision for a department of 44, supervision of visiting film companies, live shows design and technical facilities, art services, wardrobe, facility maintenance, construction, contracts, and inventory control. 1981 to 1983 Technical Director/Instructor. University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California. Instruction of technical theater courses for Department of Theater Arts, and technical direction for eight theatrical performances per year. 1980 to 1981 Technical Director/Instructor. University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Instruction of technical theater courses for Department of Theater Arts, scenic design for two productions and technical direction for five theatrical performances (inclusive). EDUCATION MFA -- Technical Direction/Lighting Design, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1979. BA -- Theater Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1977. AWARDS Marquee Award for Best Musical Production, Rocky Horror Picture Show, (Director) 2004-2005. Awards of Distinction, Scenic and Lighting Design, Zastrozzi, USITT/Ohio Valley, 2003-2004. Distinguished Professor Award for Scholarship, Youngstown State University, 1999-2000. Award of Distinction, Scenic Design, The Magic Flute , USITT/Ohio Valley, 1997-1998. Award of Distinction, Scenic Design, Moose Murders , USITT/Ohio Valley, 1994-1995. PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATION “Budget Development for Facility Upgrades and Historic Renovations,” Salem Community Theater, 00-01. "Enabling Disabled Students," Thought and Action, v13 n1 p41-52 Sp 1997, Murphy, Diane and Murphy, John. “Sizzle or Fizzle - Preparing for That Job Interview,” Youngstown State University, 1996-1997. “Theater Construction and Renovations Session,” USITT/Ohio Valley Fall Conf., 94-95. “Preparing as a Faculty for Theater Renovations/New Construction,” Otterbein Theater Department. 6247 Appleridge Drive · Boardman, Ohio 44512 · phone 330.406.1254 · e-mail: [email protected] John T. Murphy P a g e | 2 TEXTS REVIEWED “Theater, The Lively Art,” Fourth Edition, Wilson, Edwin and Goldfarb, Alvin. “Flashback: A Brief History of Film,” Sixth Edition, Giannetti, Louis and Eyeman, Scott. COURSES TAUGHT AT YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY Understanding Theater History of Motion Pictures Stage Management Play Production Scene Design Stage Craft Communication Foundations Lighting Design CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Administrative Workshops Master Planning Fully Developing Your Personnel How to Lead Effective Meetings National Arts Council Funding Sources Grant Writing Effective Employee Evaluations Funding Sources for Grants Alcohol and Drug Assessment Mediation and Conflict Resolution Evaluating Facility Safety Personnel Relations Management Creative Solutions to ADA Problems Developing Diversity in the Workplace ADA Facility Compliance (Roundtable) Student On-line Automated Advising Partnerships and Co-Productions Time Management Turning Conflict into Collaboration Teaching Workshops Ten Common Teaching Mistakes Do I Have the Right Textbook Creative Teaching Techniques How In The World Do I Teach This? Teaching in a Multi-Media Classroom Approaches to Period Design Strategies for Active Learning Design and Performance Curricula: Worlds Using Writing to Facilitate Learning Apart? Helping Students be Better Writers Can We Do It Cheaper? Teaching the Millennial Generation Technical Theater Workshops Fluid Power for the Stage Loads and Reaction in Stage Rigging Face Casting Strand 500 Series Computer Lighting Remote Control Properties Whose Tech Is It Anyway? Scenic Art – Cobalt Studios Product vs. Process Harnessing AutoCAD Alternative Light Sources/Tricks of the Airbrush Techniques Trade Three-D Fiberglass Figures Restaurant Design as Stage Set/Eating the Theater Fire Codes Scenery Computer Software for Lighting Design Risk Management Guidelines for Hazardous Strand Mini-Palette 90 Computer Lighting Chemicals in the Entertainment Industry EDI Omega Computer Lighting Flexible Spaces From the Technical Controlling Moving Lights Production Point of View Theatronics Computer Lighting Video Field Productions John T. Murphy 6247 Appleridge Drive · Boardman, Ohio 44512 · phone 330.406.1254 · e-mail: [email protected] SELECT UNIVERSITY SERVICE University Service Academic Senate (15 years) Reciprocal Tuition Research Committee Senate Executive Committee Honors Committee Professional Ethics Committee Academic Events Committee Academic Grievance Committee Curriculum Committee First Year Student Center, Mentor Dean’s Advisory Council F&PA Promotions Committee Theater Area Committee to Achieve NAST International Studies Program Accreditation Dept. Library Acquisitions Representative Chair, Distinguished Professorship Award Phase IV Construction Committee Committee REPRESENTATIVE THEATER, FILM AND VIDEO PROJECTS Scenic and Lighting Design (* scenic design only) Cabaret Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf The Tempest Moose Murders Death and the Maiden Wenceslas Square Big River Evita! Greetings! Oleanna Fiddler on the Roof Streetcar Named Desire As You Like It Dancing at Lughnasa The Grapes of Wrath A Gift of Peace The Shadow Box* Mime Time Tales* George M!* Two Gentlemen of Verona Hansel and Gretel The Bartered Bride Die Fliedermaus Midsummer Night's Dream Zastrozzi Murder at the Vicarage Absurd Person Singular The Royal Family The Man Who Came to Dinner Noises Off Our Town Spinning into Butter* Lysistrada Breaking Legs Merchant of Venice Member of the Wedding Anything Goes* The Glass Menagerie Importance of Being Earnest Breaking Legs Moon Over Buffalo Marriage of Bette and Boo The Magic Flute Enemy of the People Twelfth Night* Jake’s Women Albert Herring On the 20 th Century Elixir of Love Veronica’s Room Funny Thing . Forum Xerxe’s Dr. Faustus Stop Kiss The Miser J.B. Hamlet Urinetown* Lobby Hero Murder at the Cathedral Little Women Miss Julie How His Bride Came to Abraham As You Like It Kreskin Around the World in 80 Days Tim Weisburg Charlie Daniels Band Earl Thomas Conley Chayanne Southwestern Music Festival Joan Embry's Wildlife America Andre Segovia Tucson International Film Festival Kurt Thomas' Gymnastics America Dance Companies - Lighting Design Kathakali Margot Fonteyn (tour) France School of Ballet Isis Dance Co. Tucson Metropolitan Ballet YSU Dance Ensemble Images Images II 6247 Appleridge Drive · Boardman, Ohio 44512 · phone 330.406.1254 · e-mail: [email protected] John T. Murphy P a g e | 4 REPRESENTATIVE THEATER, FILM AND VIDEO PROJECTS (CONTINUED) Lighting Design Lend Me a Tenor Prisoner of 2 nd Avenue Into the Woods Side Show Fame Dream Machines Extremities Oedipus Rex Dames at Sea Romeo and Juliet Imaginary Invalid Feiffer's People Rain Company Flat Spin How to Succeed . Murder in the Cathedral The Rivals Theopolis North Servant of Two Masters The Baker’s Wife Technical Direction Pal Joey Wonderful Town Santa Fe Sunshine Irene House of Blue Leaves Enemies Cradle Song You Never Can Tell Private Lives Taken in Marriage The Bourgeois Gentleman Lovers Anatol Summer and Smoke Iphigenis at Aulis The Tubes The Al Franken Show Hollywood Legends Theater, Directing Only an Orphan Girl Rocky Horror Picture Show Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know Theater, Other ( Crew/Staff) Godspell A Bedroom Farce Peter Pan The Crucible Blythe Spirit Love's Labour's Lost Bluebeard Man Who Came to Dinner Waiting for Godot Little Foxes The Good Woman of Setzuan Royal Hunt of the Sun Richard III The Cripple of Inishmaan Marat Sade Theme Park Design Work Nightfall Nightfall II Wizard of the West Prairie Dog Café Cabbage Patch Kids Alvin and the Chipmunks Film Follies Valley National Bank Perils of Pearl Cactus Can-Can The Berenstain Bears Ruby's Red Garter Review Soundstage II Iron Door Mine Ride Silver Lake Park Pancho's Arcade Pan for Gold The Red Dog Saloon Mexican Plaza Stagecoach Swing Nightmare Alley Film, Video and Commercial Projects (Studio Rep/Project Supervision/other) The Contract (Sets) The Wind and the Hills (Sets) Big Babol Blind in Texas Centurion Odyssey Cowboy Up Dream West Go West - Sing West Jakals Le Grande Rallye Miller Beer Time Life Books Webster Buckeye Stagecoach U.S. Marshal's Service Love Among Thieves Three Amigos Girl in the Red Truck Wanted Man Desperado 1 Desperado 2 Ghost Town 6247 Appleridge Drive · Boardman, Ohio 44512 · phone 330.406.1254 · e-mail: [email protected] John T. Murphy P a g e | 5 REPRESENTATIVE THEATER, FILM AND VIDEO PROJECTS (CONTINUED) Film, Video and Commercial Projects (Continued) Highway to Heaven Nobody Likes it Hot Poker Alice Reading Rainbow Once Upon a Texas Train Stones for Ibarra Walker Billy the Kid Duracell Commercial Guess Jeans Laughing Dead One Life to Live Playboy Red River Shedd's Spread U.S. West Third Degree Burn Grizzly Adams Planet Texas McDonald's Law at Randado Young Riders Arizona Tourism Office El Diablo Cheyenne Outfitters America's Most Wanted Young Guns Empire Stores The Highwaymen Karakoe Gateway Computers Showdown Flamingo and People Unsolved Mysteries