Phone: 860-486-4844
Fax: 860-486-3110
Email: tim.hunter@uconn.edu

Timothy Hunter – Professor of Digital Media, Lighting & Stage Design, Department of Dramatic Arts

Professor Hunter joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut in the fall of 2007 having spent the previous 25 years based in New York City and designing internationally. His areas of expertise are in digital animation design & production, lighting design, scenic design and video projection design. He holds a BGS from the University of Michigan, an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and has been a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 since 1982.

Digital Animation design & production work for: A/X Armani Exchange, Bacardi, Borders, CNN, Comcast, Commerce Bank, Court TV, Dr. Pepper, Euro RSCG, ExxonMobil, Facebook, First Republic Bank, Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, Heineken, ING NYC Marathon, InStyle Magazine, JCDecauxNA, Liberty Travel, Liberty Travel, McCann Erickson Worldgroup,  Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Microsoft, Movado, MSN Direct, Paramount Center, Philips (Color Kinetics), Pfizer, The Related Companies, Robert Wilson, Samsung, Sharp, Sony BMG, Sports Illustrated, Starbucks, TBS, and Time Warner Inc..

Theatrical design credits include numerous productions for: Broadway, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and Off-Broadway. Regional Theatres include: Paper Mill Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, Burt Reynolds Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Doolittle Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, McCarter Theatre, MUNY Opera Theatre - St. Louis, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, North Shore Music Theatre, Royal George Theatre - Chicago, Starlight Theatre - Kansas City, Syracuse Stage, Victoria Theatre - Dayton and Yale Repertory Theatre.

Classical and Modern Dance designs for: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (Design director-12 years), American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Boston Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Houston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Ft. Worth Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, State Ballet of Missouri, San Francisco Ballet, Basil Ballet, Frankfort Ballet, Kirov Ballet, La Scala Ballet, London Festival Ballet, National Ballet of Canada and Norwegian National Ballet.

Theme Park design: Disney EPCOT, Disney Wide World of Sports, Fox Studios Australia, Fox Studios-Los Angeles, Minnesota Zoo - Discovery Bay and Universal Studios Florida.

Television design work includes: Cablevision – HDTV News Network, Cablevision – NEWS12 Long Island News Division nightly news, CSTV- College Sports Television, New York City, NBC – Cosby Celebrates Ailey, OLN – Stamford, CT, OLN The Tour de France – 2003&04, WNET – Spike and Company Do it Acapella, WNET – The Colored Museum, The Golf Channel: Golf Talk Live, Golf Central, Golf Academy, Pre-Post Game, Grey Goose, Smith Barney – Corporate Television Studio Sets & Lighting, Danmarks Radio Television: Aarhus Denmark - 32 productions for Dance in America.

Mr. Hunter maintains his business of 28 years, Tim Hunter Design http://www.timhunterdesign.com/ in New York City, where in addition to his work in digital animation for television, film and entertainment companies he is engaged in the development of numerous  national and international architectural projects  that incorporate digital animation, digital media technology, lighting, sound and articulated structure into their design.