Oliver Wason – Assistant Professor, Coordinator of BFA Design/Technology

Oliver Wason (Design/Technology Coordinator, Assistant Professor, Lighting Design, Design Fundamentals, Technical Theatre) is a designer and educator who is equally at home working in theater, opera, dance, music, or anything in between.

New York work includes Let’s Call Her Patty (LCT3 – Lincoln Center Theatre), ONCE UPON A [korean] TIME, The Chinese Lady, Among the Dead, House Rules (Ma-Yi Theatre Company); The Pen (Inner Voices), Sagittarius Ponderosa (NAATCO); Wonderland (Atlantic).

Oliver’s work in opera includes numerous productions with Heartbeat Opera, where he is an associate artist, including Butterfly, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lady M, Kafka Fragments, and their recent production of Fidelio at Met Live Arts which toured nationally. Other opera work includes Empty the House (Curtis Opera); Erismena (Yale Baroque Opera); Agrippina (Juilliard Opera)

Regional credits include shows at Signature Theatre, Indiana Rep, Barrington Stage, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Berkshire Theater Festival, Playmakers Rep, and Triad Stage.

Oliver was the associate designer for A Doll’s House, Part 2 on Broadway, and designed the Chinese Premiere of Stones in His Pockets at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center.  Prior to WCSU, Oliver taught for six years at Northeastern University in Boston. He has a BA from CUNY Hunter College and an MFA from Yale School of Drama.

More info at oliverwason.com.

 

Contact Information
Oliver Wason, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of BFA Design/Technology
Department of Theatre Arts
203-837-8843
wasono@wcsu.edu

 

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