Lary Opitz

E-mail: [email protected] Janet Kinghorn Bernard Theatre, Room 237 (518) 580-5432 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 https://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/laryopitz/

Current and Recent Positions: Professor, Skidmore College Department of Theatre 2001-2020 Artistic Director, Saratoga Shakespeare Company 2012-2019 Chair of the Skidmore College Dept. of Theater (most recent term) 2006-2016 Council Member, Albany Liaison, Actors’ Equity Association 2012-2013

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Studio Art, 1970 Queens College, City University of New York The Studio and Forum of Stage Design, New York City Certificate of Distinction awarded 1980

Professional Affiliation: United Scenic Artists, IATSE Local Union #829, NYC Actors Equity Association (Principal Actor) Dramatists Guild Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Shakespeare Theatre Association Literary Managers and Dramagurgs of the Americas

Previous Experience in Higher Education: Skidmore College Associate Professor 1989-2001 Assistant Professor 1980-1988 Instructor 1978-1980 Lecturer and Technical Director 1974-1978 Theatre Department Chair 1991-1994 Theatre Department Chair 1988-1989 Academic Director of The Shakespeare Programme (Skidmore College) 1994-2006 Queens College Department of Theatre (CUNY) 1973-1974 Associate Technical Director Columbia University, NYC - Instructor 1970-1972 Teachers College Theatre and Dance, Graduate Departments

Lary Opitz CV Page 1 Directing: Julius Caesar (Skidmore Theater) 2018 Love Letters (Saratoga Shakespeare Company) 2016 Love’s Labour’s Lost (Saratoga Shakespeare Company) 2014 If All the Sky Were Paper (Skidmore Theater) 2014 Ajax in Iraq (Skidmore Theater) 2012 Almost Maine (Skidmore Theater) 2012 Romeo and Juliet (Skidmore Theater) 2011 Metamorphosis: A Slapstick Tragedy (Skidmore Theatre) 2009 Blood Relative (Skidmore Theatre) 2007 Macbeth (Skidmore Theatre) 2004 The Comedy of Errors (Skidmore Theatre) 2002 The Merchant of Venice (Skidmore Theatre) 2000 RAB (for national tour) 1999 Arcadia (Skidmore Theatre) 1998 The Trial (Skidmore Theatre) 1997 Bloomsday: Dublin, 16 June (Skidmore Theatre) 1994 The Threepenny Opera (Skidmore Theatre) 1992 Woyzeck (Skidmore Theatre) 1988

Producing Artistic Director - The Saratoga Shakespeare Company 2012-2019: The Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing Love’s Labour’s Lost The Comedy of Errors Macbeth The Dogs of War The Winter’s Tale Gravedigger’s Tale (with The Folger Theater) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2) King Henry IV parts 1 & 2 Cyrano! Love Letters Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare: The Remix The Tempest (with SPAC) Shipwrecked! As You Like It

Lary Opitz CV Page 2 Acting and Performance King Lear (King Lear), Saratoga Shakespeare 2019 Romeo and Juliet (Capulet, Chorus, Friar Lawrence) Lionheart Brass 2019 The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff), Saratoga Shakespeare 2013 The Fighting McMarters (Fred McMarter) Independent short film 2013 Peter and the Wolf (narrator) Skidmore Orchestra 2013 The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Saratoga Shakespeare 2011 Hamlet (Polonius), Saratoga Shakespeare 2010 The Tempest (Gonzalo), Saratoga Shakespeare 2009 Diaghilev (Stravinsky, et alia), dir. Sheryl Kaller, w/ Thom Sesma 2007 Blood Relative (David), Skidmore Theatre 2007 As You Like It (Duke Senior/Duke Frederick), Saratoga Shakespeare 2008 What I Heard About Iraq, NYC, NY state & Canada tour 2006 What I Heard About Iraq documentary film 2006 Tubby the Tuba (Narrator) Skidmore Orchestra 2006 The Skeptic, Independent feature film 2005 Dada Soirée, with Mark Ludwig (BSO), Skidmore College 2005 National Museum of Dance, poetry reading 2005 Saratoga Casino (TV commercial) 2005 Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence) Saratoga Shakespeare Co. 2004 Macbeth (Duncan, Porter, Scottish Doctor) Skidmore Theatre 2004 Titus Andronicus (Marcus), Instant Shakespeare Co., NYC 2003 Taming of the Shrew (Gremio), Instant Shakespeare Co., NYC 2003 Sonnet Readings, Instant Shakespeare Co., NYC 2003 The People’s Theater, NYC – Readings of New Plays 2003 The Comedy of Errors (Aegeon) Saratoga Shakespeare Co. 2002 Seabiscuit (Crony), Universal Films, Gary Ross dir. 2002 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peter Quince) Saratoga Shakespeare 2001 The Three Sisters (Ferapont) Skidmore Theatre 2001 Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch) Saratoga Shakespeare Co. 2000 The Merchant of Venice (Shylock) 2000 Carnival of the Animals (Narrator) Skidmore Orchestra 1999 Disoriented (Professor) Independent Feature Film 1998 DADA (Grandfather), Celebration of New Jewish Plays 1997 The Trial (Lawyer Huld), Skidmore Theatre 1997 Tonight We Improvise (Pirandello), Skidmore Theatre 1996 Machinal (George H. Jones), Skidmore Theatre 1995 In the Boom Boom Room (Club Owner), Skidmore Theatre 1994 The Music Man (Charlie Cowell), Rochester Music Theatre 1970 Show Boat (Backwoodsman), Rochester Music Theatre 1970

Lary Opitz CV Page 3 Writing: Julius Caesar – adaptation 2018 Metamorphosis: A Slapstick Tragedy 2009 Shakespeare of A Certain Age 2008 The Trial – stage adaptation of Der Prozeß by Franz Kafka 1994 Bloomsday – Stage adaptation of Ulysses, by James Joyce 1994 International Photometrics Guide 1993 The Threepenny Opera 1992 Translation and adaptation based upon The Threepenny Opera and other writings of Bertolt Brecht Woyzeck in Auschwitz – Adaptation of Woyzeck by Georg Büchner 1988 TCI (formerly Theatre Crafts) - Technical Editor 1985-1986 Adaptations of Shakespere’s plays including: Measure for Measure (work in progress) 2020 King Lear 2019 Julius Caesar (set in contemporary United States) 2018 Love’s Labour’s Lost (set in 1914 Saratoga Springs) 2013 Romeo and Juliet (set in 1960’s Buenos Aires featuring the tango) 2011 Macbeth (set in Soweto) 2004 The Comedy of Errors (set in 1940’s Casablanca) 2002 The Merchant of Venice (set in 1938 Vienna) 2000 Some Web-based writing (web pages and blogs) Shakespeare in Performance Acting Shakespeare’s Monologues Introduction to Theatre From Page to Stage Stage Lighting Parliamentary Procedure Senior Seminar

Lary Opitz CV Page 4 Scenic and Lighting Design (selected credits – additional credits on pages 15-17): Saratoga Shakespeare 2012-2019 The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost , Cyrano, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear Marathon by Eduardo Erba (translated by Israel Horovitz) 2003 The People’s Theater, NYC Invited to assist Broadway lighting designers and Tharon Musser and Ken Billington 2003 Skidmore College, Department of Theatre 1974-2005 Over one hundred productions (see list below) Madame Butterfly, Lake George Opera/SPAC (lighting design consultant) 2000 The Book of Tink (world premiere), lighting designer. Written by Erik Ehn 1999 Chez Sophie Bistro - Saratoga Springs, lighting designer 1995 Two by Bellows (world première), lighting designer 1993 Empire State Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY Limón Dance Company 1984-1993 Resident lighting designer - hundreds of performances in over twenty countries including many New York and world premières Limón Dance Company 1990 Reconstructed Jean Rosenthal’s scenic designs for Ritmo Jondo The Hollow Lady – Lighting Design for NYC Premiere 1990 Alwin Nikolais, Choreographer; Nina Watt, soloist Woyzeck in Auschwitz (Skidmore College) 1988 Scenic, Lighting, Costume and Sound Design Heart to Heart (world première), Joyce Theatre, NYC 1988 Heinz Poll, Choreographer, Lighting Designer with Tom Skelton Capital Repertory Company (LORT), Albany, NY 1981-1987 Lighting Designer for Sea Marks, Table Manners, Jupiter and Elsewhere (world première), Translations, What the Butler Saw, The Dining Room, November (world première), The Wake of Jamey Foster Saratoga Performing Arts Center 1981-1985 Lighting designer, The Swan, Sleeping Beauty, Witness for the Prosecution, José Limón Dance Company, Story Theatre Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts 1978-1984 Lighting Designer, Beauty and the Beast, The Diary of Anne Frank, Spoon River Anthology, The Swan, Fiddler on the Roof, Wind in the Willows (world première), Sleeping Beauty, Witness for the Prosecution, Story Theatre, The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew Nureyev and Friends, Broadway (Asst, to Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1984 Show Boat, Broadway (Assistant to Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1983

Lary Opitz CV Page 5 Dance a Little Closer, Broadway (Asst. to Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1983 The New York Acting Unit, New York City 1983 Lighting designer, As You Like It, directed by Robert Smith The Magic Circle Opera Company, New York City 1982 Lighting designer, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (world première) Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady, NY 1982 Lighting designer, Fiddler on the Roof and Encore The Kennedy Center, Washington, D. C. 1981 Lighting designer, Sleeping Beauty My One and Only, Broadway 1981 Assisted scenic designer Peter Gould for Tony Walton Sister/Sister (world première), starring Vinie Burrows 1981 Lighting designer, National/International tour The November People, Broadway (Asst. Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1978 Invited to assist Liviu Ciulei as lighting designer 1978 Dance Festival, Delacorte Theatre, NYC (Asst. Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1978 The Acting Company, assistant to lighting designer David F. Segal 1978 Camino Real, Mother Courage, Chapeau The Julliard School - Opera Division’s Jenufa 1977 Lighting coordinator for Josef Svoboda The Reality Theatre of Boston 1977 Scenic and Lighting designer, Songs of Sappho and Billy the Kid (world premières) Lighting designer for Melissa Hayden 1974-1976 Columbia University, Teachers College, New York 1971-1972 Scenic and Lighting designer for all theatre and dance productions The Republic, Off-Broadway - Scenic and Lighting designer 1971 Circa Lorca , La Mama ETC, NYC - Scenic and Lighting designer 1970 Rochester Music Theatre 1970 Scenic and Lighting designer, I Do! I Do!, South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Oliver, Show Boat, Music Man, Song of Norway, Cabaret, Stop the World I Want to Get Off Woyzeck, La Mama ETC, NYC - Scenic and Lighting designer 1969 Volpone, directed by Gene Frankel - Lighting designer 1969 Dream Play, directed by Gene Frankel - Lighting designer 1968 For Love or Money, Off-Broadway 1967

Lary Opitz CV Page 6 Theatre Design and Consulting: Warren County BOCES, design for new theatre facility 2002 Saratoga County BOCES, design of new theatre facility 2001 Assisted scientist Carl Djurasi with new play An Immaculate Misconception 1998 Assisted composer Richard Danielpour on translations of 1996 Researched and adapted Hebrew Psalms in anticipation of his creating new Musical settings Okaloosa Walton Community College, Niceville, FL 1995 Lighting consultant for Lorelli Associates, theatre complex Maryville University, St. Louis, MO 1994 Advised on program development for a new multiple use facility Union College, Schenectady, NY 1993 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 1980-1988 New theatre complex (Ford, Powell & Carson, architects; Brannigan & Lorelli, theatre consultants) Capital Repertory Company, Albany, NY 1986 Designed a new production facility (unrealized) including a 500 seat thrust stage, a 200 seat proscenium theatre, and all attendant spaces Capital Repertory Company, Albany, NY 1981-1982 Programmed and designed the Market Theatre, a 250 seat thrust stage facility for this LORT theatre; designed lighting system Empire State Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY 1982 Designed conversion of a recital hall to a 500 seat theatre; consulted on the addition of lighting canopy for the main stage Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts 1982 Restructured the production organization Williams College, Williamstown, MA 1978-1979 The Julliard School, NY, NY 1977-1978 Consultant on the restructuring of the Stage Department Empire State Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY 1977-1978 Donald Oenslager, consultant; Harrison and Abromovitz, architects. Completed consultation and accepted the arts center for the the State of New York Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 1975-1976 Programmed, designed and constructed a 240 seat thrust stage theatre plant (Ford, Powell & Carson, architects) Queens Playhouse, New York City 1971-1972 Collaborated with Pete Howard on the design and construction of this new LORT regional theatre (Philip Johnson, architect)

Lary Opitz CV Page 7

Production Management and Stage Management: Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts 1982 El Grande de Coca Cola 1973 Production stage manager of original Off-Broadway production Caligula (Queens College), directed by Joel Zwick 1970

Technical Direction: Skidmore College, Department of Theatre 1974-1983 Empire State Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY 1978 Gala opening (Kitty Carlisle Hart, Chairperson; Porter Van Zandt, producer): NY City Ballet, Feld Ballet, Ailey Dance Company, Metropolitan Opera, Peter Pan, The Acting Company, and hundreds of other groups The Cherry Orchard, directed by Alan Schneider 1977 The Julliard School, New York, NY El Grande de Coca-Cola, off-Broadway (NYC première) 1973 Queens Playhouse, New York, NY 1971-1973 Opened new LORT regional theatre. Supervised full-time staff of twelve and many part-time workers. IATSE contract

Lary Opitz CV Page 8 Some Other Professional Activities:

Shakespeare in the University, panel member 2019 Shakespeare Theatre Association, Prague, Czech Republic Reviewed manuscript Stage Management, Lawrence Stern, 1998 6th ed., Allyn and Bacon: Boston. Assisted scientist Carl Djurasi with new play An Immaculate Misconception 1998 Chaos Panel (Skidmore College Honors Forum) 1998 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1988 External educational consultant to the Department of Theatre Technology and the Broadway Theatre – Moderator 1988 The Enlightened Designer - the Liberal Arts in the Training 1986 Of the Lighting Designer USITT National Conference (Oakland, CA) Allens Lane Festival of the Lively Arts The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht 1980 The Julliard School, NY, NY 1977-1978 Consultant to Alan Schneider & Peter Menin MFA DesignProgram Offered position of Technical Director and Assistant 1978 Professor at Boston University’s professional program Recycled Space as Theatres - presentation 1976 USITT National Conference (Phoenix, AR) Invited participant at Denison University conferences 1976-1977 with Josef Svoboda of the Prague National Theatre Tech Director of Crawford Studios – most successful 1970 non-union scenic shop In New York City.

Lary Opitz CV Page 9 Teaching: Courses and Workshops developed/taught at Skidmore College Arts and Politics in Weimar Germany Professional Field Experience Basic Design for the Theatre Scenic Design Environmental Stage Design Special Studies in Design & Tech. Theatre Graphics for the Theatre Stage Lighting Independent Studies Stage Management Introduction to Theatre Technical Production Lighting Design Theatre Production Production Seminars Intermediate Design Shakespeare in Production Introduction to Theatre History and Theory of Acting Career Development for the Theatre Artist Acting Shakespeare Introduction to Acting Audition Workshop Senior Seminar Shakespeare Was Jewish? Dramaturgy Workshop Director Course Special Studies in Acting

Teaching expertise: scenic design, total theatre art, epic acting, epic directing, play adaptation, scenic painting, lighting design, stage electrics, German cultural history (1918- 1933), technical direction, drafting, model-making, rendering techniques, design research, stage management, theatre administration, environmental theatre, the theatre of Bertolt Brecht, theatre consulting, stage carpentry, sound design, stage properties, acting, directing, conceptualization for the designer and director, residential and commercial lighting, computers and the performing arts, theatre history, auditioning, Shakespeare studies, acting Shakespeare, classical acting, dramaturgy, style for the theatre.

Administrative Experience: Artistic Director of The Saratoga Shakespeare Company 2012-2019 $100,000 annual budget, Actors’ Equity SPT contract Chair of the Theatre Department 2006-2016 $800,000 annual budget; 17 member professional staff Director of the Shakespeare Programme 1994-2006 $700,000 annual budget President, Congregation Shaare Tfillah 1991-1993 $300,000 annual budget; Constructed new building Chair of the Theatre Department 1991-1994 $600,000 annual budget; 12 member professional staff Acting Chair of the Theatre Department 1988-1989

Lary Opitz CV Page 10 Community Service to Skidmore College: Replacement member of Promotion Committee 2020 Producer of many guest productions in the JKB Theater 1989-2016 Member on numerous ad hoc committees (Arts Forum, 2006-2016 Arts Administration, Zankel Music Center search Committees, a number of search committees, etc.) Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure 2002-2006 (Chair, 2005-2006) Academic Director, Shakespeare Programme 1994-2006 Shades of Grey panel on grade inflation 2006 Burial at Thebes FYE orientation teaching; prepared Articles for website 2005 Dada Soirée – Skidmore Music Department (performer) 2005 Theatre Workshop Coordinator 2005 Mellon Grant (theatre career program) coordinator 2005 Webpage Development and Maintenance (Theatre Dept., 2002-2005 Shakespeare Program, courses) Theatre Pre-Orientation Program 2004-2005 HEOP panel 2005 Committee on Faculty Governance (elected) 2000-2002 College Parliamentarian 2002-2005 Mini-College presenter (Brush-up Your Shakespeare) 1999-2005 Theatre Advisor, Music Building Planning 2002 Design Director for the Theatre Department 1980-2003 Periclean Scholar Committee 2003 Producer of numerous Guest Performances 1987-2002 Preparation of students for Convocation presentation 2000 Presenter on two panels – Great Expectations 2000 Tang Teaching Museum – first faculty presenter 2000 Committee on Ed. Policy & Planning (CEPP - elected) 2000-2001 Department Computer Liaison 1996-2000 All-College Writing Board 1996-2000 Conversion of Rehearsal Studio into a workshop theatre 1998-2000 Created a media room for teaching and design 1999 Skidmore Orchestra, Carnival of the Animals, narrator 1999 Consilience Panel Member 1999 Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure 1996-1999 Kristallnacht Committee & presenter of Bente Kahan 1997-1998 Coordinator of Arcadia events (LSI reading) 1998 Chaos Panel Member (Honors Forum) 1998 Periclean Scholar Committee 1996 CEPP Curriculum Reform Committee (elected) 1995 Mini-College presenter (Adaptations for the Theatre) 1994 Theatre Consultant for The Bernhard Theatre 1984-1988 Performing Arts Committee (two terms), Secretary 1980-1986 Theatre Consultant for the Field House Theatre 1976-1977 Lary Opitz CV Page 11 Participant and presenter for Shakespeare Birthday celebrations Self-Determined Majors Committee Faculty Development Committee Olin Building Committee Frequent participant in Accepted Candidates Day events Academic Advisor & First-year Student Advisor: average of 35 students per year prior to 2005 Orientation mentor for first years of First-year reading program University Without Walls Advisor: Six students since 1995 Workshops in lighting, auditioning, internships, etc. each semester Guest instructor for: Jonathan Kingdon, Carolyn Anderson, Reinhard Meyer, John Anzalone, Marie Glotzbach, et al. Sponsor of numerous professional internships in theatre every year Reviewer and interview for a number of Fulbright and Truman scholarship candidates

Other Community Activities: Saratoga Library Shakespeare Lectures 2017-2019 Saratoga Arts Council Assessor 2008 Performer, Saratoga Shakespeare Benefits 2001-2005 Performer, National Museum of Dance 2005 Saratoga Shakespeare Co., Member of Board of Directors 2001-2003 Advisory Committee, A Celebration of New Jewish Plays Schenectady, New York 1997-1998 Congregation Sharre Tfilla, Saratoga Springs, NY Member of Board of Directors 1982-1995 President (during building of new facility) 1991-1993 Active in fund-raising activities, planning, all personnel searches, public relations and lay religious leadership. Developed initial designs for a $1.5 million synagogue facility opened in 1992 (Harrison Sanders, architect) and chaired the building committee. Ian Horvath Memorial Benefit, Lighting Designer 1990 The Joyce Theatre, New York City In association with principal dancers from many New York City dance companies Production Advisor for various fund raising benefits including: Yaddo, Saratoga Hospital Fund Raising Committee, The Albany League of Arts Member, NAACP

Lary Opitz CV Page 12 Selected Awards and Professional Invitations: New York University, Faculty Resource Network Scholar-in-Residence 2010 New York University, Faculty Resource Network Scholar-in-Residence 2003 Selected by Periclean Society as keynote speaker for The Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony 2000 Skidmore Faculty Development Grant (Dance Lighting Photos) 1999 New York University, Faculty Resource Network Scholar-in-Residence 1996 Skidmore Faculty Development Grant 1992 Invited to serve as lighting coordinator for Liviu Ciulei 1980 SUNY Albany and The Julliard School C. W. Post College 1978 Invited Guest Lecturer in Lighting Design

Recent, Ongoing and Future Projects Adaptations of The Castle, Othello and Measure for Measure (in progress) Development of a new web-based course – Shakespeare in Production Development of a web-based course – Acting Shakespeare Development of a Skidmore College webpage on parliamentary procedure Development of a one-person touring production Shakespeare: Of An Age Ongoing professional acting auditions Development of new courses in dramatugy and style for the theater

Miscellaneous Creation and maintenance of extensive websites and blogs: Acting Shakespeare Dramaturgy Introduction to Theatre Audition Workshop Arcadia Workshop Directors Theatre Career Development 1994 Skidmore Commencement Stage Lighting Skidmore Theatre Shakespeare Was Jewish Arts and Politics in the Weimar Republic Lary Opitz Sample Acting Blog Shakespeare in Performance Shakespeare Monologues Julius Caesar Seminar Love’s Labour’s Lost Ajax in Iraq Seminar If All the Sky Were Paper Seminar Blood Relative Seminar Metamorphosis Seminar Romeo and Juliet Seminar

Lary Opitz CV Page 13 Professional Relationships

Choreographers with whom I have collaborated as lighting designer: Jean Cebron, Remy Charlip, Annabelle Gamson, Melissa Hayden, Ian Horvath, Lucas Hoving, Jiri Kylian, Phyllis Lamhut, Susanne Linke, Sophie Maslow, Gary Masters, Carla Maxwell, Meredith Monk, Alwin Nikolais, Carlos Orta, Heinz Poll, Anna Sokolow, Sarah Stackhouse

Some theatre and dance artists with whom I have collaborated and worked: Greg Antonacci, Gregg Barnes, Michael Bennett, Malcolm Black, Anne Bogart, Bruce Bouchard, Vinie Burows, Marcia Eck, Eldon Elder, Henry Fonte, Martin Freid, Gene Frankel, Christopher Gillis, Peter Gould, Cynthia Gregory, Peter Holland, Klaus Holm, Israel Horovitz, John Houseman, Sheryl Kaller, Alan Kimmel, Robert La Fosse, Ming Cho Lee, Calvin Morgan, Vincent Murphy, John Neurmeir, Mike Nichols, Miroslav Pflug, Nancy Potts, Andy Robinson, Wolfgang Roth, Beeb Salzer, Jennifer Scanlon, Alan Schneider, David F. Segal, Thom Sesma, Paul Shire, Tom Skelton, Robert Smith, Josef Svoboda, Porter Van Zandt, Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Robin Wagner, Ed Waterstreet, Lee Watson, Nina Watt, Stephen Wangh, Joel Zwick

Study, Training, Assistantships, Workshops, Master Classes: John Barton, Richard Bernstein, Robert Brand, Peggy Clark, Harold Clurman, Clarke Dunham, Ben Edwards, Gene Frankel, John Gleason, Henry Gorfein, Jerzy Grotowski, Jane Greenwood, Sir Peter Hall, Bertram Joseph, Jay B. Keene, The LaMama Plexus, Jane Lapotaire, Richard Nelson, Robert O’Hearn, Dennis Parichy, Edward Petherbridge, Lester Polakov, Linda Putnam, Patsy Rodenburg, Beeb Salzer, Richard Schechner, Louis Scheeder, Douglas W. Schmidt, David F. Segal, Howard da Silva, Tom Skelton, Jennifer Tipton, Jose Varona, Steve Wangh, Claire Warden

Lary Opitz CV Page 14 Skidmore College Theatre Productions 1974-2019

The Blind Men Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1974 Calm Down Mother Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1974 The House of Blue Leaves Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1975 The Threepenny Opera Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1975 Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1975 Dames at Sea Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1975 Under Milkwood Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1975 The Birthday Party TD, Lighting Design, Scenic Artist 1976 Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1976 The Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre (guest) Technical Director 1976 Life is a Dream Designer 1976 The Skin of Our Teeth Tech director and Lighting Designer 1976 Trojan Women Tech director and Lighting Designer 1976 Atlanta Ballet (guest) Technical Director 1977 Cabaret Berlin Lighting Designer 1977 The Cole Porter Review Lighting Designer 1977 The Playboy of the Western World TD, Lghtng Designer, Scenic Artist 1977 The Maids Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1977 John Brown’s Body Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1977 Endgame Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1977 Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1977 Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1978 Ladyhouse Blues Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1978 The Faces of Love-Carol Teitel Technical Director 1978 William Carter Dance Co. Technical Director 1978 TAUDshow (guest) Technical Director 1978 Playwright’s Theatre Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1978 The Devil’s Disciple Technical Director 1978 A Taste of Honey Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1979 Throw Thunder at This House Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1979 Twelfth Night Tech Director and Designer 1979 Atlanta Ballet Company (guest) Technical Director 1979 The Medium Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1979 Bread and Puppet Theatre (guest) Technical Director 1979 Dance Concert Tech Director and Lighting Designer 1979 Sexual Perversity in Chicago Lighting Designer 1979 Peer Gynt Design Advisor 1979 Playwrights’ Theatre Designer 1980 The War Project Lighting Designer 1980 The Medicine Show - The Frogs (guest) Coordinator 1980 Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1980 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Lighting Designer 1980 Ball and Chain Producer and Design Advisor 1981 Yentl Scenic Designer 1981 Lary Opitz CV Page 15 Mabou Mines (guest) Technical Director 1982 Indian Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1983 Gemini Scenic Designer and Scenic Artist 1983 Angel City Design Advisor 1983 Calamity Jane (guest) Lighting Designer 1984 Modern Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1984 Ballet Concert Lighting Designer 1984 As You Like It Scenic Designer and Scenic Artist 1984 Spring Awakening Scenic and Lighting Designer 1984 Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1984 Camino Real Producer 1985 Sexual Perversity in Chicago Design Advisor 1985 Under Milkwood Scenic Designer 1985 Dance Concert Lighting Designer 1986 The Three Sisters Scenic Designer 1986 Tooth of Crime Design Advisor 1986 The Insect Comedy Design Advisor 1986 U.S. 7 Design Advisor 1987 Spoon River Anthology Scenic and Lighting Designer 1987 Beyond Therapy Scenic and Lighting Designer 1987 Light Up the Sky Lighting Designer, Scenic Artist 1987 Faces Scenic and Lighting Designer 1987 New Voices Scenic and Lighting Designer 1988 Mario and the Magician Lighting Designer 1988 Woyzeck Adapter, Director, Designer 1988 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Scenic Designer 1989 La Ronde Design Advisor 1989 Antigone Design Advisor 1989 Red Noses Scenic Designer 1989 An Odour of Chrysanthemums Design Advisor 1990 National Lampoon’s Ahead of Its Time Scenic and Lighting Designer 1990 The House of Bernarda Alba Lighting Designer 1990 Marat/Sade Scenic and Lighting Designer 1991 Theatre de la Jeune Lune (guest) Coordinator 1991 The Mad Dog Blues Design Advisor 1991 The Mudwoman Design Advisor 1991 Our Town Scenic and Lighting Designer 1991 The Threepenny Opera Adapter, Director & Scenic Designer 1992 The Changeling Design Advisor 1992 Dionysus and Orestes (SITI) Production Coordinator 1992 Six Characters in Search of an Author Lighting Designer 1992 The Marathon Years Production Coordinator 1993 The Medium/Tale of Lear (SITI) Production Coordinator 1993 Beckett: Works Scenic Designer and Design Advisor 1993 Action and Back Bog Beast Bait Producer 1993 The Wall of Water Scenic Designer 1993 Lary Opitz CV Page 16 The Investigation of the Murder in . . . Producer 1993 Roundtable John Design Advisor 1994 Bloomsday Playwright, Director, Lght Design 1994 Miss Information/Sincerity Forever Design Advisor 1994 In the Boom Boom Room Scenic and Lighting Designer, Actor 1994 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well . . . Lighting Designer 1995 The Seagull Design Advisor 1995 Les Precieuses Ridicules Scenic Designer 1995 Machinal Actor (George H. Jones) 1995 The Danube Scenic Designer 1996 Faith’s Body Scenic Designer 1996 Tonight We Improvise Actor (Pirandello) 1996 The Trial Playwright, Dir., Actor, Designer 1997 A Slight Case of Murder Scenic Designer 1997 The Company of Angels Scenic Designer 1998 Arcadia Director 1998 How I Learned to Drive Scenic Designer 1999 The Book of Tink Lighting Designer 1999 The Merchant of Venice Director, Actor 2000 The Misanthrope Scenic Designer, design advisor 2000 The Bed Bug Scenic Designer 2001 The Three Sisters Actor (Ferapont) 2001 The Comedy of Errors Director, Scenic Designer 2002 The Mound Builders Scenic Designer 2002 Fefu and Her Friends Scenic Designer 2003 Macbeth Director, Scenic Designer, Actor 2004 Albanian Softshoe Directing Advisor 2005 Blood Relative Director, Actor 2006 Shakespeare of A Certain Age Writer, Actor 2007 Metamorphosis: A Slapstick Tragedy Writer, Director 2008 Romeo and Juliet Director 2011 Ajax in Iraq Director 2012 Almost Maine Director 2012 Sweeney Todd Lighting Designer 2013 If All the Sky Were Paper Director 2014 Julius Caesar Director 2018

Advisor to countless Studio Lab and Workshop productions over these years

Lary Opitz CV Page 17