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Mary Myers
Adjunct Lecturer & Associate Technical Director
Theatre
Division of Humanities and the Arts
Office: Aaron Davis Hall Costume Shop
Phone: 212-650-6599
E-mail: mmeyers@ccny.cuny.edu
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About Mary Myers
I want to develop theatre design courses which emphasize clear thinking and communication through the process of creating set and costume designs, giving a solid base for those students who wish to enter the profession and which will broaden the horizons of every students, regardless of their career path.
Education
Yale University School of Drama, New Haven, MFA,1989
Barnard College, Columbia University AB 1979
Other Training and Education
Arts Students League, Parsons School of Design
Fashion Institute of Technology and Studio and Forum of Stage Design
Performances
Costume and Set Design/CCNY
The Wiz
Oedipus Rex
Gallathea
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Set Design
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre
The Baby Blues by Drew Hayden, Pennsylvania Centre Stage
Costume Design
La Belle et la Bete, composed by Philip Glass, BAM
Zaide, European Mozart Foundation, Theatre Royale de la Monnaie (Brussels)
Opera du Rhin (Strasbourg, France)
Sollie’s Cradel, choreographed by Randy Warshaw, Joyce Theatre
Insekta, Author/performance Artist Diamanda Galas, Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center and The Kitchen
Othello, Portland Stage Company, Portland, ME
Sincerity Forever by Mac Wellman, Berkshire Theatre Festival, MA
Playboy of the West Indies, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven CT
The Secret History of the Lower East Side, En Garde Arts
Cacademon King, at Pier 57
Heaven Can Wait, by Harry Segall, Players Guild of Dearborn (Sept. 2003)
The Merchant of Venice, Westerly Shakespeare in the Park
Cindella's Bad Magic, Bard College (premiered in Moscow, Jan. 2003)
Comedy of Errors, Westerly Shakespeare in the Park (July 2002)
Les Enfants Terrible, by Philip Glass, Bard College (April 2002)
Associate Costume Design
The Mysteries and What's So Funny?, written and directed by David Gordon Spoleto Festival, Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center (Alice Tully Hall), ART, USA Tour
Hydrogen Jukebox, composed by Philip Glass, written by Allen Ginsberg, staged by Ann Carson, AMTF, Spoleto Festival, USA Tour and BAM
Richard Foreman's Pearls for Pigs (World Premiere), Hartford Stage
Einstein on the Beach, 1992 composed by Philip Glass, directed by Robert Wilson, choreographed by Lucinda Childs McCarter Theatre, World Tour and BAM
Set Design
Passage Theatre, Trenton NJ: Pee Wee and The Wheelman by Rita Nachtmann
Colonial Theatre, Westerly RI: Driving Miss Daisy,The Gin Game, and Annie
Florida State University: Beatrice and Benedict, by Berlioz
Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre: The Lucky Chance by Aphra Behn
Bard College: The Good Person of Szechwan, by Brecht
Angels in America/Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Il Campiello by Goldoni directed by William Driver
Professional Affiliations
USA Local 829 Costume Design
Courses Regularly Taught
Prof. Myers, who also designs all the productions, teaches Basic Production and Design as well as courses in Set and Costume Design.
Last Updated: 9/4/08
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