ArtSpotlight

Richard Harmon
Professor, Fine and Performing Arts

Richard Harmon is currently a professor and designer in the Fine and Performing Arts Program at Seminole Community College. He came to Orlando to teach as an Associate Professor with the Department of Theatre at The University of Central Florida and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in theatrical design and technical theatre.

 

Prior to joining the Department of Theatre at UCF, he was a faculty member of the Theatre Program at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky where he was a recipient of a Bingham Award Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. He has been responsible for the designs of sets, lights, and/or costumes for over 150 productions in the area of theatre and dance.

 

Rich is a graduate of New York University's School of the Arts where he received both B.F.A. and M.F.A. Degrees. Ensemble Studio Theatre, Hudson Guild Theatre, Theatre at St. Clements, Theatre for the New City, Equity Library Theatre, The Negro Ensemble Company, and Riverside Shakespeare Company number among the dozen-plus off-Broadway theatres in which his work has appeared. With his work as a resident designer for New Federal Theatre he has merited two AUDELCO Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre.

 

Rich is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. He has served as a teacher of theatrical design on the faculties of several universities including Bucknell, Cornell, SUNY at Old Westbury, UC at Santa Barbara and Hofstra University. Locally, his Theatre UCF credits include both set and lighting design for Nunsense, Death of a Salesman, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and I Love My Wife (which he does), scenic designs for Nora, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ah Wilderness!, A Raisin in the Sun and Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, and lighting designs for Fame, Something's Afoot, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Crazy For You. At SCC he has been responsible for the scenic designs of Dancing At Lughnasa, The Trojan Women, Hay Fever, Anything Goes, Christmas Carol (a collaborative production with The Orlando Theatre Project), Two Trains Running (a collaborative production with The
Peoples Theatre),The Good Doctor, Anna In The Tropics, Smokey Joe’s Café, Oleanna , Fences, Art, Red Herring, Company, Urinetown, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Presently he is working on the designs for Tartuffe which will be the final presentation of the SCC season.

 

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