RICHARD ELLIS Stephen F. AustinSchool of Theatre Box 6090 SFA Nacogdoches, TX 75962 936) 468-1012

Bio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!Richard Ellis, a NYU trained scenic designer, has worked in New York City, throughout the US as well as outside of the country for over three decades. He recently designed Rent at the Tulsa Hard Rock, Little Shop of Horrors for Stages St. Louis, Master Harold and the Boys, Steel Magnolias and Woyzeck for SFA School of the Theatre, The Drowsy Chaperone for the University of Tulsa Theatre, The Cripple of Inishmann for TCC Theatre, and A Lesson Before Dying, 12 Angry Men, A Picasso, and Spelling Bee for the American Theatre Co.. Before that, he most recently designed and oversaw the installation of his scenic design for a Miller Beer industrial in Medellin, Colombia, South America. !A few of the productions he has designed include Yardbird, Gardens of Frau Hess, Home of the Brave, Fifth of July, Rhythm Rocks, Music in the Night, and Cradle Song in NYC. Where for eight years he was Scenic Coordinator for Radio City Music Hall. There he worked on both the Christmas and Easter Spectaculars and the last summer spectacular, Gotta Getaway. !He has a long carrier in resident theatre and has served as Resident Set Designer for The Alley Theatre, American Theatre Co., The Westport Playhouse, Stamford Theatre Works and The Ogunquit Playhouse. He has also designed for Tennessee Rep., Stages St. Louis, Maine State Music Theatre, Playhouse on the Square, Downtown Cabaret, Playhouse on the Green, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Seacoast Rep., and the Helen Hayes Theatre. Some of the musical productions he has designed have included La Cage Aux Follies, Fiddler on the Roof, Westside Story, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Cabaret, Beauty and the Beast, Evita, Cats, Batboy, Chicago, Aida, The Sound of Music, 1776, Footloose, Batboy, Always...Patsy Cline, and Dames at Sea. !Richard’s non-musical designs include Dancing at Lughnasa, The Sunshine Boys, Hamlet, Tartuffe, The Taming of the Shrew, Blood Knot, National Pastime, Death of A Salesman, Talley’s Follies, ‘Night Mother, Far East, Taking Sides, The Constant Wife, Painting Churches, Breaking Legs, and Other People’s Money, to name a few. ! His work in Industrials/Theme Parks includes Showtime, Miller Beer, American Brands, Pizza Hut, Opryland, Silver Dollar City and Dollywood, where he designed shows for eight years. Scenic designs for opera include Amahl and the Night Visitors, Hansel and Gretel, The Tragedy of Carmen, La Traviata, Suor Angelica and Il Tabarro. !He taught at Lehman College in NYC for six years as well as Queens College and most recently at the University of Tulsa. He has also designed for Stephen F. Austin School of Theatre and Tulsa Community College. Some of his academic design work includes South Pacific, The Wiz, A Streetcar Named Desire, What the Butler Saw, The Playboy of the Western World, Driving Miss Daisy, the Glass Menagerie, and Crimes of the Heart. !Richard is veteran of 18 years of designing in Summer Stock and he has also designed national tours of Dreamgirls, The Peking Circus and several years of traveling old fashioned “Melodramers.” He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Design Program and the University of Tulsa Theatre Program and is a member of United Scenic Artist 829. Education!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! M.F.A. Design . New York University Tisch School of the Arts Design Program B.F.A.!Theatre . The University of Tulsa

ACADEMIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! University of Tulsa Theatre . Tulsa, OK . Scenic Designer/Adjunct Professor . 2009-2012 ! The Drowsy Chaperone!! ! ! Directed by Susan Barrett ! Rent!! ! ! ! ! ! Directed by Machele Dill ! A Streetcar Named Desire!! ! ! Directed by David Cook

Taught Scene Design, Theatre Graphics, supervised painting and propping of department productions. !!!!!!! Stephen F. Austin State Univ. . Nacogdoches, TX . Guest Scenic Designer . 2008-2012 ! Steel Magnolias!! ! ! ! Directed by Jason Scott ! How I Become a Pirate!!!! Directed by Angela Bacarisse ! School House Rock! !!!!Directed by Scott Shattuck ! The Uninvited!!!!!!Directed by Rick Jones ! Woyzeck!! ! ! ! ! Directed by Rick Jones !Master Harold and the Boys!! !!Directed by Rick Jones ! Crimes of the Heart! !!!!Directed by Scott Shattuck ! Driving Miss Daisy! !!!!Directed by Allen Oster ! Androcles and the Lion! !!!Directed by Alen Nelson

Supervised painting and propping of department productions.

Tulsa Community College . Tulsa, OK . Guest Scenic Designer . 2010-2011 ! The Cripple of Inishmaan! !!!Directed by Jim Runyan ! Once Upon a Mattress! !! ! Directed by Lisa Stefanic

Lehman Collage . New York City . Adjunct Assistant Professor . 2001-2006 ! A Lesson Before Dying!! ! ! Directed by Susan Soetaert ! What the Butler Saw! !!!!Directed by Scott Shattuck ! The Playboy of the Western World! !!Directed by Brian Doyle ! South Pacific! !!!!!Directed by Ken Ross !Fiddler on the Roof! !!!!Directed by Bing Bills ! The Wiz!! ! ! ! ! Directed by Susan Watson Taylor ! The Glass Menagerie !!!!Directed by Robert Roarty ! Tartuffe!!!!!!Directed by Brian Doyle ! Chico de Jazzzz!! ! ! ! Written and Directed by William Hoffman !Cyberian Nights!! ! ! ! Written and Directed by William Hoffman ! The Stench of Art !! !!!Written and Directed by William Hoffman

Taught Scene Design, Visual Elements, supervised painting and propping of department productions and advised students.

Queens College . New York City, NY . Guest Scenic Designer . 2001 ! The Doctor in Spite of Himself! ! ! Directed by Peter Bennett AWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Memphis Theatre Awards . Excellence in Set Design . Light Up the Sky . Playhouse on the Square NDM Conference/Trade Show . San Francisco . First Place Award . The Lake Group NDM Conference/Trade Show . Chicago . First Place Award . The Lake Group Connecticut Critics Award, nomination . Best Scenic Design . Taking Sides . Stamford Theatre Works

PROFESSIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

New York City:

Miller Beer/CRW . Medellin, Columbia South America/NYC . Scenic Designer ! Rhythm Rocks Pilsen Beer Launch Industrial! Directed by Bill Castellino

Bank Street Theatre . NYC . Scenic Designer ! Yardbird . Premier!!!!! Directed by Dante Albertie

Duke Theatre on 42nd St. NYC . Scenic Designer ! The Gardens of Frau Hess! !!!Directed by Rhoda Herrick

Playhouse 91 . NYC . Scenic Designer ! Home of the Brave!! ! ! ! Directed by Richard Sabellico

Theatre at St. Peters . NYC . Scenic Designer ! Cradle Song . Premier!!!! Directed by Tony Stemic

Radio City Music Hall . NYC . Scenic Designer ! Music in the Air . Premier!!!! Directed by Joe Hayes

Equity Library Theatre . NYC . Scenic Designer!!! ! The Fifth of July !!!!! Directed by Andrew Glant Lindon

Resident/Regional/Stock:

Briar Street Theatre . Chicago, Ill. . Scenic Designer ! The Fourth Wall . !!!!! Directed by David Saint (Premier of new AR Gurney !!!!!!!!!work with Betty Buckley)

Alley Theatre . Houston, TX . Resident Scenic Designer ! Painting Churches!! ! ! ! Directed by Josephine R. Abady ! The Miss Firecracker Contest!! ! ! Directed by Pat Brown ! What the Butler Saw!!!!!Directed by George Anderson !The Traveling Lady!!!!!Directed by Beth Sanford !Orphans!!!!!!Directed by George Anderson

Tennessee Repertory Theatre . Nashville, TN . Scenic Designer ! Lettuce and Lovage!!!!!Directed by Mac Pirkle ! Westside Story! !!!!Directed by Don Jones ! A Christmas Carol!!!!! Directed by Mac Pirkle

Stages St. Louis . St. Louis, MO . Scenic Designer! ! 1776!!!!!!!Directed by Michael Hamilton ! The Little Shop of Horrors!!!!Directed by Michael Hamilton Maine State Music Theatre . Brunswick, ME . Scenic Designer ! Swing! !!!!!!Directed by Ginger Thatcher ! Beauty and the Beast!!!!!Directed by Norb Joerder

Stage One . Wichita, KS . Scenic Designer ! Crowns with Carla Burns!!!!Directed by Jerry McKintire

Ogunquit Playhouse . Ogunquit, ME . Resident Scenic Designer (Representative of 5 seasons) ! Fiddler on the Roof! !!!!Directed by B.T. McNichol ! Disney’s Beauty and the Beast!!!Directed by Richard Stafford ! La Cage Aux Follies!!!!!Directed by B.T. McNichol !Cabaret!!!!!!Directed by B.T. McNichol !AIDA!!!!!!! Directed by Schele Williams !The Best Little Whorehouse...!!!Directed by Richard Stafford !Cats!!!!!!!Directed by Susanne Viverito !Always...Patsy Cline!!!!!Directed and Starring Sally Struthers !Smokey Joe’s Cafe!!!!!Directed by Jill Carlen !Evita!!!!!!!Directed by Gordon Greenberg !Chicago!!!!!!Directed by Luis Perez !Footloose!!!!!!Directed by Jacques Stewart !Annie!!!!!!!Directed by Richard Sabellico

Westport Country Playhouse . Westport, CT . Resident Scenic Designer (Representative of 12 seasons) ! The Constant Wife!!!!!Directed by Joanne Woodward !Ancestral Voices !!!!!Directed by David Saint (With Paul Newman, Jane !!!!!!!!!Curtain, Neal Patrick Harris and !Fritz Weaver) ! Eleanor!!!!!!Directed by John Tillinger (With Jean Stapleton) !Chasing Monsters !!!!!Directed by Sabin Epstein (Premier with Michael !!!!!!!!!Learnard and Ralph White) ! A Bench in the Sun!!!!!Directed by John Tillinger (Premier with Tim Conway) ! Lawyers! !!!!!Directed by John Berry (Premier with Kevin Conway) ! Men in Suits !!!!!!Directed by Joe Cacaci (Premier with Charles Durning !!!!!!!!!and Dan Lauria) ! The Taming of the Shrew!!!!Directed by Josephine Abady (With Victoria Tennant) ! Beaujest! !!!!!Directed by David Saint (With Jerry Stiller and Estelle !!!!!!!!!Harris) ! A Cheever Evening !!!!!Directed by Nicholas Martin )With Laurence Luckinbill !!!!!!!!!and Karen Valentine) ! Fareast!! !!!!Directed by David Saint (With Stephanie Zimbalast) ! Park Your Car at Harvard Yard!!!Directed by Austin Pendleton (WIth E.G. Marshall) ! Song of SIngapore!!!!!Directed by Ron Nash (With Loretta Switt) ! The Perfect Wedding!!!!!Directed by John Going (Prenier)

Stamford Theatre Works . Stamford, CT . Resident Scenic Designer (Representative of 12 Seasons) ! National Pastime !!!!!Directed by Steve Karp (Premier) ! The Music of Lerner and Loewe!! ! Directed by Shawn Churchman (Premier) ! A Lesson Before Dying!!!! Directed by Patricia Floyd !Boy Gets Girl!!!!!!Directed by Doug Moser ! The Library !!!!!!Directed by Cass Morgan (Premier) ! Rhapsody in Gershwin!!!!Directed by Shawn Churchman (Premier) ! A Picasso!!!!!!Directed by Steve Karp !Far East!!!!!!Directed by Steve Karp !Tin Pan Alley!!!!!!Directed by Shawn Churchman (Premier) American Theatre Company . Tulsa, OK . Principal Scenic Designer (Representative of 30 seasons) ! Honky Tonk Angels!!!!!Bat Boy !Always...Patsy Cline!!!!!Big Blondes (Premier) !The King of the Koser Grocers!!!A Christmas Carol !The Taming of the Shrew!!!!Hamlet !Other Peoples Money!! ! ! ! Tartuffe !Talley’s Foley!!!!!!Fly’n West !Inspecting Carol!!!!!Little Shop of Horrors !Lost in Yonkers!!!!!From the Mississippi Delta

Playhouse on the Square . Memphis, TN . Scenic Designer ! Light Up the Sky!!!!!Directed by Jackie Nichols (Winner of the Memphis !!!!!!!!!Theatre Award for Excellence in Set Design)

Downtown Cabaret Theatre . Bridgeport, CT . Scenic Designer ! Dames at Sea!! ! ! ! ! Directed by Richard Sabellico ! The Sunshine Boys!!!!! Directed by Richard Sabellico

Helen Hayes Theatre Company . Nyack, NY . Scenic Designer ! Always...Patsy Cline!!!!!Directed by and staring Sally Struthers ! Evita!! ! ! ! ! ! Directed by Gordon Greenberg ! The Sound of Music!!!!!Directed by Richard Sabellico

Polka Dot Playhouse . Bridgeport, CT . Scenic Designer ! Deathtrap!!!!!!Directed by Laurie Calahan

Seacoast Rep . Portsmouth, NH . Scenic Designer ! My Way!!!!!!Directed by Jill Carlen

Opera

Connecticut Grand Opera . Stamford, CT . Scenic Designer ! La Traviata!!!!!!Directed by Franco Gentilesca

Dicapo Opera Theatre . NYC , Scenic Designer ! The Tragedy of Carmen!!!!Directed by Michael Capasso ! Sour Angelica!!!!!!Directed by Michael Capasso ! Amahl and the Night Visitor!! ! ! Directed by Michael Capasso ! Il Tabarro!!!!!! Directed by Michael Capasso

Opera South . Jackson, MS . Scenic Designer ! Hansel and Gretel!!!!!Directed by B. Jaye Schooley

Tours, Industrials, Theme Parks, Events, TV/Video

Dollywood . Pigeon Forge, TN . Scenic Designer ! Paradise Road: The Life and Songs of Dolly Parton!Directed by Michael Padgett ! Let the Good Times Roll!!!! Directed by Michael Padgett ! Hometown Holidays!! ! ! ! Directed by Michael Padgett ! Country Treasures!!!!! Directed by Michael Padgett ! T’was the Night Before Christmas!!!Directed by Patricia Morinelli ! Christmas in the Smokies!!!! Directed by Michael Padgett Silver Dollar City . Branson, MO . Scenic Designer ! Christmas in the Ozark's!!!!Directed by Michael Padgett

Opryland . Nashville, YN . Scenic Designer ! A Christmas Carol!!!!!Directed by Mac Pirkle

Radio City Music Hall . NYC . Scenic Coordinator ! The Christmas Spectacular!!!! Directed by Scott Salmon ! The Easter Extravaganza!!!! Directed by Scott Salmon ! Gotta Getaway!!!!! Directed by Larry Fuller

Ziegfeld Theatre . Reno, NV . Scenic Designer ! The Peking Circus!!!!! Directed by Joe Hayes (American premier and national !!!!!!!!!tour) Pizza Hut . New York, NY . Art Director !In store point of purchase promotions

Showtime . New York, NY . Art Director ! Dana Gould: Lust, Panic and Confusion!! Directed by Josh White

American Brands Industrial . Stamford, CT . Scenic Designer ! The Big broadcast of ’92

Deadalus Productions . New York, NY . Scenic Designer ! Dreamgirls!!!!!! Directed by Joy Vandervort (National tour)

The Lake Group . NY, NY . Scenic Designer !three industrials: New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago