Daniel Conway

Associate Professor
Head of Design/Production Area
Director of MFA in Design

301.405.6680
2747 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
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Education/Training: M.F.A. Design, The George Washington University, 1982; B.S., Theatre, The State University of New York, Brockport, 1978.

Areas of Specialization/Interest: Scenic Design, Lighting Design, Computer Assisted Design.

Professional Affiliations: United Scenic Artists; Art Director /consultant to Hillman and Carr, Washington D.C. for permanent collection films for The Smithsonian Institution, The Cleveland Science Museum, The Carnegie Science Center, and The National Civil War Museum.

Representative Productions:

Scenery and lighting design for more than 250 productions Off- Broadway and at regional theatres, including: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, (premiere: Reynolds Price’s New Music), New Theatre of Brooklyn (premiere: Brecht’s Conversations in Exile), Manhattan Class Company, Harold Clurman Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre; (premiere: Horton Foote’s Lily Dale), Home for Contemporary Theatre, Soho Rep, Chelsea Theatre, Circle Repertory Lab, Syracuse Stage, Wilma Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Boston Lyric Opera, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Studio Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Designer of Industrial shows for Icon Communications 1985-89, NYC. Assistant designer at Caribiner, NYC, for State Farm, IBM, and McDonald’s. Assistant to Circle Repertory designers John Lee Beatty, David Potts and Hariton/Baral on a dozen Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Recent designs: scenery for Radio Golf at Studio Theatre, Stunning at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, scenery for Teller’s MacBeth at Two River Theatre Co. and The Folger Theatre, the premiere of My Name is Asher Lev for The Arden Theatre in Philadelphia.

Honors and Awards:

Ten-time nominee of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Scenic Design and winner of the award in 2000 for Ambrosio at Rep Stage and in 2009 for Stunning at The Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Individual Artist Fellowship, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1997.