Design & Technical Production
Costume rendering by Design & Technical Production student Sarah Dixey (Triumph of Love).The Design & Technical Production concentration offers students an opportunity to study with New York theatre professionals, design main stage productions, establish professional contacts, and obtain internships with some of New York’s major theatre designers and theatres.
Students study one or more of the arts of theatre design — sets, lights, costumes or sound — as well as learn technical theatre skills. They work on premieres of new works, contemporary and period plays, as well as musicals and dance concerts in both the Theresa Lang and in our Black Box Theatres.
Our faculty is comprised of professional designers with careers designing on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and film and television. Some of the guest speakers that have come into our design classrooms are Tony Walton, William Ivey Long, and Steven Louis Shelley.
Ray Recht, Professor of Theatre Arts and Scenic Designer, painting the O PIONEERS! set (November, 2014).
Since MMC is an undergraduate college, design students do not compete with graduate students for design opportunities. Every semester, qualified students design main stage productions and Directing Projects.
“The hands-on nature of the classes…left me ready to jump into the technical theatre world with real, applicable skills and knowledge.”
—Seán Linehan ’04 (Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, The Lighting Syndicate & The T.E.A.M.)
Requirements for a Design & Technical Production Concentration
| For Sound Design: |
| THTR 240 Design Assistant Practicum |
| THTR 254 Audio Technology for Performance I |
| MUS 216 Digital Sound Design |
| MUS 354 Digital Sound Workshop |
| THTR 354 Audio Technology for Performance II |
| THTR 499 Internship |
| For Scenic Design: |
| THTR 238 Stage Management |
| THTR 240 Design Assistant Practicum |
| THTR 302a-b Scenic Design I |
| THTR 402a-b Scenic Design II |
| For Lighting Design: |
| THTR 238 Stage Management |
| THTR 240 Design Assistant Practicum |
| THTR 304a-b Lighting Design I |
| THTR 404a-b Lighting Design II |
| For Costume Design: |
| THTR 238 Stage Management |
| THTR 240 Design Assistant Practicum |
| THTR 303a-b Costume Design I |
| THTR 403a-b Costume Design II |
(In addition to the Theatre Arts Core - 24-Credits)
Suggested Elective Courses
| For Sound Design: |
| THTR 200 Technical Production |
| COMM 233 Video Workshop |
| THTR 237 Drafting & Model Making |
| THTR 252 Lighting Mechanics |
| THTR 253 Scenery & Prop Technology |
| THTR 293 Special Topics: Advanced Technical Projects |
| COMM 335 Music as Media |
| THTR 340 Intermediate Design Assistant Practicum |
| COMM 349 Projects in Digital Sound |
| COMM 350 Film & History |
| THTR 440 Advanced Design Practicum |
| For Scenic Design: |
| THTR 200 Technical Production |
| THTR 207 Lighting Design & Art Direction for Film & Video |
| ART 210 Digital Imaging |
| COMM 233 Video Workshop |
| THTR 235 Scenic Painting & Treatments |
| THTR 252 Lighting Mechanics |
| THTR 266 Costume Construction |
| THTR 293 Special Topics: Perspective Drawing & Rendering |
| THTR 293 Special Topics: Advanced Technical Projects |
| ART 303 Watercolor Painting |
| THTR 340 Intermediate Design Assistant Practicum |
| THTR 398 Puppetry |
| THTR 440 Advanced Design Practicum |
| For Lighting Design: |
| THTR 200 Technical Production |
| THTR 207 Lighting Design & Art Direction for Film & Video |
| ART 210 Digital Imaging |
| COMM 233 Video Workshop |
| THTR 253 Scenery & Prop Technology |
| THTR 266 Costume Construction |
| THTR 293 Special Topics: Perspective Drawing & Rendering |
| THTR 293 Special Topics: Advanced Technical Projects |
| THTR 340 Intermediate Design Assistant Practicum |
| THTR 440 Advanced Design Practicum |
| For Costume Design: |
| THTR 200 Technical Production |
| BUS 255 The Business of Fashion |
| DANC 230 Costume for Dance |
| THTR 233 Theatrical Makeup |
| THTR 235 Scenic Painting & Treatments |
| THTR 253 Scenery & Prop Technology |
| THTR 293 Special Topics: Advanced Costume Construction |
| THTR 293 Special Topics: Advanced Technical Projects |
| ART 301 Figure Drawing |
| ART 303 Watercolor Painting |
| COMM 333 Fashion, Media & Culture |
| THTR 340 Intermediate Design Assistant Practicum |
| AIP 342 Fashion, History & Society |
| THTR 440 Advanced Design Practicum |
