Daniel MacLean Wagner

Professor and Chair, Department of Theatre
Acting Chair, Department of Dance

301.405.6679
2811 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
dmwagner@umd.edu

 

Education/Training: M.A., Design/Technical Theatre, University of Maryland, 1982; B.A., Dramatic Arts, University of Maryland, 1979

Areas of Specialization/Interest: Lighting Design, Producing

Professional Affiliations: Lighting Designer, United Scenic Artists Local 829. Resident Lighting Designer, Olney Theatre Center and National Players (1992 - present); Artistic Associate, Signature Theatre (1996 - present), Associate Artist, Round House Theatre (2003-present); previously served as Resident Lighting Designer, The Studio Theatre (1986 - 1998). Producer and Production Designer, Helen Hayes Awards (1988 - present). Board Member, Olney Theatre Center; Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA). Lighting Consultant/Systems Designer.

Representative Productions:

Lighting design for more than 350 productions at many regional theatres, including Berkshire Theatre Festival, Portland Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre, The John F. Kennedy Center, The Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, Potomac Theatre Project, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, National Players, and Olney Theatre Center; has also designed for Boston Lyric Opera, and several Off-Broadway productions. Recent designs include: Alexander, Who's Not, Not...Going to Move at the John F. Kennedy Center and on national tour; Copenhagen at Olney Theatre Center; The Highest Yellow at Signature Theatre; Living Out and The Diary of Anne Frank at Round House Theatre; Radiant Abyss at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.

Representative Publications/Research Activities: Again and Again: The Legacy of Washington Theatre, Washington Theatre Awards Society, 1988.

Honors and Awards:

Eight-time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (most recently for The Diary of Anne Frank at Round House Theatre, 2005), for which he has been nominated twenty-six times; Creative and Performing Arts Award, College of Arts and Humanities, 1997; Individual Artist Fellowship, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1992, 1996.