Phone: 860-486-1631
Fax: 860-486-3110
Email: michael.franklin-white@uconn.edu

Michael Franklin-White (Associate Professor, Drafting, Digital, and Scenic Design) Michael Franklin-White has designed sets for The Illinois Shakespeare Festival, The Huntington Theatre, Arena Stage, New Playwrights, Boston Shakespeare Company, Seven Stages, Company One, The Curtis Institute, Peabody Opera Theatre, Maryland Opera Studio, The Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The Connecticut Repertory Theatre, The Foulton Opera House, The Clarence Brown Theatre, Les Recontres Musicals, Evian, France, The Nikitski Gates Theatre, and the Mosovet Theatre, both in Moscow. He has worked with directors: Leon Major, Gary M English, James Nicola, Peter Frish, Roger Brunyate, Valerie Curtis Newton, Joshua Karter, Clinton Turner Davis, Peter Bennett and Rhoda Levine.

He has been assistant designer for Liviu Ciulei at Seattle Repertory, American Repertory Theatre and Teatro Musicale, Florence, Italy. From 1982 to 1988, he was the scenic artist at Arena Stage and the Washington Opera in Washington, DC, painting for designers such as Ming Cho Lee, Karl Eigsti, Tony Straiges, William Dudley, Zack Brown, John Bury, John Pierre Ponell, Robert O’ Hearn, John Gunter, Adrian Lobell, Radu Boresque, and Thomas Lynch. He also taught set design, design history, and scene painting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and scene design at Trinity College, Hartford. Michael is currently an Associate Professor in Residence for Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, Storrs specializing in Scene Painting and Computer Design.

From 1988 to 1993, and 2000 to 2003, Michael worked for Thomas Cariello at Corporate Scenographics LLC., on productions for IBM, Ford Mercury Leasing, Merck, Sandoz, McDonalds, State Farm Insurance, Volvo, Avon, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil, Pfizer, Purdue and Coors. He has also designed exhibits for the United States Information Agency (The Prague Quadrennial 1987) and the Library of Congress.

He has a M.F.A. from the University of Connecticut in scene design, with postgraduate work at Brandies University in scene painting and scene design, and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, New York, in the categories of Scenic Design and Scenic Painting.