TCU DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
FACULTY MEMBER

MICHAEL HEIL

Assistant Professor
Scenic Designer
MFA - University of Texas at Austin
MFA - Schiller University (France)
BA - Xavier University
United Scenic Artists of America

Michael Heil has designed scenery and/or costumes for dance, opera and theatre throughout the United States and abroad. Recent design credits include Twelfth Night, (Trinity Shakespeare), Outlying Islands, Woyzeck, (Upstream Theatre), The Crucible, Lonesome Highway, You Can’t Take It With You (Capital Repertory Theatre), Proof (PlayMakers Repertory Theatre), Buried Child, Art, The Brecht Project, The Illusion, (The Clarence Brown Theatre), A Delicate Balance
(7 Stages), O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music (Vermont Stage Company), and Buried Child (Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza).

He has designed for such distinguished directors as the late Joe Chaikin, Blake Robison, Veronika-Nowag Jones and Philip Boehm. His designs have been published in TD&T, World Stage Design and Design USA. He has twice exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial, an international theatre expo held every four years in the Czech Republic. From 2000-2004 he was the resident designer for the Clarence Brown Theatre, a LORT theatre located in Knoxville, TN. He has recently been named resident designer for Upstream Theatre in St. Louis, MO.

Michael holds MFAs in theatre design (University of Texas at Austin), and studio
art (Schiller International University, Strasbourg, France). He is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the Southeastern Theatre Conference, (SETC), the Organisation Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens, et Architectes de Théâtre (OISTAT) and United Scenic Artists, Local 829 (USA).

Michael is married to Mary Lieberman. Michael and Mary, with their two dogs Malcolm and Joel, live in Fort Worth.

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