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

Timothy Hunter – (Professor of Lighting and Stage Design)

Mr. Hunter’s appointment as Professor of Lighting and Stage Design commenced Fall 2007. He comes to UConn directly from New York City where he has been designing professionally for the last 25 years. His areas of expertise are in lighting design, scenic design, projection design and new media 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.

Mr. Hunter’s theatrical design credits include: 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 design: 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: 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, WNET – Spike and Company Do it Acapella, WNET – The Colored Museum, TGC – 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, Tim Hunter Design http://www.timhunterdesign.com/ in New York City, where some current architectural projects include: Armani Exchange Stores, Meadowlands Xanadu Entertainment Complex, American Girl Place Store Chicago and Madison Square Garden New York.