Penny Remsen
remsen@theater.umass.edu
Undergraduate Program Director
Professor: Lighting Design
B.F.A. Rockford College
M.F.A. Lighting Design, Temple University

Teaches lighting and sound design; former co-chair of department. Has designed in New England, Houston, Philadelphia, Reno and Las Vegas and elsewhere, for example: A Soldier's Play at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre for director Gilbert McCauley, Carmen for Commonwealth Opera, Triumph of Love in Orlando, The Bacchae at Clarence Brown Theatre Company, the Auburn University Department of Theater production of The Trojan Women with UMass alumna Lisa Channer, Borderscape 2000 by Guillermo Gomez-Pena; Cabaret, The Grapes of Wrath and The Bronte Cycle (world premiere plays in repertory by John O'Keefe) at the Clarence Brown Theatre Company in Knoxville. At UMass, she has designed Some Asians, Love in Disguise, Archipelago of Delight (a new puppet musical), The Bacchae of Euripides, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet.

Publications include "Portfolio Guidelines for Designers" in Theatre Design and Technology Winter, 1998; "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Artists and Light" in Practical Projects and Teaching Lighting Design, USITT, 1990. Contributing editor for Theatrical Designers: An International Biographical Dictionary, 1992.

Member of USITT, has served as jurist for the U.R.T.A. portfolio reviews.

Recipient of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award, 2004. Finalist for the UMass Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.