MATT BUCHANAN
Set Designer/Theatre Artist
441 Martha Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
(334) 265 9789
matt_buchanan_88@post.harvard.edu
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/3765/
EDUCATION
Harvard College, Cambridge. BA, Music, 1990.
Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN. Special Student, Theatre,
1987-1988.
University of Texas at Austin. MFA, Children's Theatre/Creative Drama,
1996.
Training in Technical Theatre at Moorhead State University.
Studied Stage Design with Don Soule at Harvard.
Extensive training and experience in Directing, Creative Drama and
Children's Theatre.
SELECTED DESIGN AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
SET DESIGNER
Little Women, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2002
Fiddler On the Roof, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2002
Honk!, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2002
The Miser, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2001
Anything Goes, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2001
Once On This Island, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2001
Flowers for Algernon, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2000
Schoolhouse Rock! Live!, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2000
A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery,
AL, 2000
The Mikado, The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery, AL, 1999
Inspecting Carol, The Haverford School, Haverford, PA,
1998
Wiley and the Hairy Man, The Haverford School, 1998
Great Expectations, The Haverford School, 1998
End of World with Symposium to Follow, The Haverford
School, 1997
Sleeping Walter, The Haverford School, 1997
Peter Pan, The Haverford School, 1997
Lord of the Flies, The Haverford School, 1996
I Remember Ernie, University of Texas Children�s Theatre
Tour, 1996
Once on a Summer�s Day, American Experience Theatre,
Haverford, 1995
The Wizard of Oz, Carlisle (MA) Elementary School, 1993
Annie, Varnum Brook Players, Pepperell, MA, 1993
Once on this Island, Indian Hill Arts Summer Theatre,
Groton, MA, 1993
Salome, Loeb Experimental Theatre, Harvard University,
1992
West Side Story, Loeb Mainstage, Harvard, 1991
The Tempest, Loeb Mainstage, 1990
Extremities, Loeb Experimental Theatre, 1990
Pippin, Indian Hill Arts Summer Theatre, 1990
Forty-Second Street, Glyndon-Felton (MN) H.S., 1988
Aria da Capo, Glyndon-Felton H.S., 1987
The Real Thing, Dunster House Drama Society, Harvard,
1986
LIGHTING DESIGNER
AIDS Project, University of Texas Laboratory Theatre, 1994
Once on this Island, Indian Hill Arts Summer Theatre,
1993
Family Duties/El Sadboy, Freshman Union Performance Space,
Harvard, 1992
In the Absence of Light, Loeb Experimental Theatre, 1991
Extremities, Loeb Experimental Theatre, 1990
Forty-Second Street, Glyndon-Felton H.S., 1988
Aria da Capo, Glyndon-Felton H.S., 1987
Amahl and the Night Visitors, North Middlesex (MA) Players,
1986
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Extremities, Loeb Experimental Theatre, 1990
The Marriage of Figaro, Lowell House Opera, Cambridge,
MA, 1989
Our Town, Loeb Experimental Theatre, 1989
The Mikado, The Publick Theatre, Inc., Boston, MA, 1989
The Voice of the Prairie, The Publick Theatre, 1989
The Taming of the Shrew, The Publick Theatre, 1989
Aias (Ajax), Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe, 1989
Amahl and the Night Visitors, North Middlesex (MA) Players,
1986
(Also served as technical director for most of the shows I designed.)
SCENIC ARTIST
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, North Middlesex
Players, 1990
Princess Ida, Agassiz Theatre, 1989
(Also served as scenic artist for most of the shows I designed.)
MISCELLANEOUS
Composer, Antigone, University of Texas, 1993
Technical Advisor, Pippin, Boston University Stage Troupe,
1990
Carpenter, General Tech, Straw Hat Players, Moorhead, MN, 1987/88
Puppet Effects Designer, The Devil Always Wins, Agassiz
Theatre, 1986
RELATED EXPERIENCE
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I am an accomplished children's playwright with a number of productions.
Produced plays include Ernie's Place, Nowheresville, Texas (commissioned
work), Sleeping Walter, The Bird, an adaptation of Little Women, and the musical, Prince Ugly.
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I am a trained and experienced director and choreographer.
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I am a successful composer, and have written music for a number of theatrical productions, including commissioned work and the musical, Prince Ugly.
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I am a skilled electronic musician, and am experienced in using electronic
music and other technology, integrated with live theatre.
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I maintain an informational web site, dedicated to the art of Theatre for
Young Audiences and to the craft of teaching Drama in the classroom. (URL
above.)
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I have performed, as an amateur and as a professional, in more than fifty
musicals and plays.
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I am trained in dance and choreography, with classes at Radcliffe College,
Moorhead State University, and the University of Houston.
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I am a trained and active dramaturg.
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I am a skilled theatrical photographer.
References Available