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

Michael Franklin-White's set designs have been seen on the stages of 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 Clarence Brown Theatre, Les Recontres Musicals (Evian, France), The Nikitski Gates Theatre, and Mosovet Theatre. (Moscow)

As a designer for Corporate Scenographics LLC, he has worked on projects for projects for IBM, Ford Mercury Leasing, Merck, Sandoz, McDonalds, State Farm Insurance, Volvo, Avon, Johnson & Johnson, Mobil Oil, Pfizer, Purdue, and Coors.

He served as assistant designer for Liviu Ciulei at Seattle Repertory, American Repertory Theatre and Teatro Musicale (Florence, Italy). Michael served as scenic artist from 1982 to 1988 at Arena Stage and the Washington Opera in Washington, DC. His teaching credits (set design, design history, scene painting, and digital arts) have included positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Trinity College, Hartford; and currently at the The University of Connecticut-Storrs, specializing in scene painting and digital arts.