College of Liberal Arts

Michael McNamara

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Lighting Designer

Office:	Pao 2183
Office Phone:	(765) 49-62386
Office Fax:	(765) 496-1766
Email:	mmcnamara@purdue.edu

Michael McNamara previously worked at the University of Arizona where he frequently designed lighting for productions in both the Schools of Theatre and Music. For eight years he was Resident Assistant Lighting Designer with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC where he worked on more than fifty productions with design teams from around the world. He has also assisted the Seattle, San Diego, Pittsburgh, and Portland Opera companies and at the Royal Opera in London. In recent years, he has served as Associate Lighting Designer for the Stephen Lawless production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore for performances in Toronto, Tel Aviv, and San Diego.

He has designed with numerous Chicago area theatre companies including Writers’ Theatre, Griffin, Dolphinback, Magellan, and Pegasus Players and also at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and the Pacific Conservatory for the Arts. He has designed and taught as a guest artist at the University of Kentucky, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Wheaton College.

Michael received an MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Theatre Arts from Carroll College in Waukesha, WI.

Michael is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

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