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Joe Johnson
651-387-0367 joethomasjohnsondesign@gmail.com
SCENIC DESIGN
Production
Alice by Heart
Inanimate
Selling Kabul
9-5 the Musical
Footloose
Suor Angelica/Schicchi
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Disney's Descendants
Extra Yarn
Newsies
Legally Blonde The Musical
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Marys Seacole
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Peerless
Spongebob The Musical
The Glass Menagerie
Legally Blonde the Musical
The Drowsy Chaperone
Beauty and the Beast
Les Miserables
Cinderella
Hairspray
Madagascar Jr.
Constellations
Noises Off
Almost Maine
The Complete Works (Abridged)
Fiddler on the Roof
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Director
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Jeremy Wechsler
Hamid Dehghani
Ryan DeLaCroix
Matt Williams
Richard Gammon
Justin Lucero
Sandy Boren-Barrett
Anthony Kayer
Bri Graham
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Steve Scott
Jerrell Henderson & Hannah Todd
Hamid Dehghani
Ji Won Jeon
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Alvin Chan
Chris Carter
Kajsa Jones
Amanda Hestwood
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Kyle Schwartz
Erin Schwab
Jack Lambert
Simon Vanvactor-Lee
Kate Ufema
Jim Williams
Jenna Soleo-Shanks
Amanda Hestwood
Amanda Hestwood
Company/Year
East Ridge High School/ 2024
Theater Wit/ 2024
Northlight Theatre/ 2024
The Phipps/ 2023
McLeod Summer Playhouse/ 2023
Bay View Music / 2023
BayView Music /2023
Stages Theatre Co./ 2023
Lifeline Theatre/ 2023
Maple Grove High School/ 2022
East Ridge High School/ 2022
Madkap Productions/ 2022
The Griffin Theatre Co./ 2022
Wirtz Center, NU/ 2022
Wallis Collab Show, NU/ 2022
East Ridge High School/ 2021
Wirtz Center, NU/ 2020
Wirtz Center, NU/ 2020
East Ridge High school/ 2019
Ashland Productions/ 2019
East Ridge High school/ 2018
Ashland Productions/ 2018
Ashland Productions/ 2018
Ashland Productions/ 2018
Stage 2/ 2018
University of Minnesota-Duluth/ 2017
Paul Bunyan Playhouse/ 2017
University of Minnesota-Duluth/2017
East Ridge High School/ 2015
East Ridge High School/ 2012
ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGN
UPCOMING:
THE DAVINCI CODE. DRURY LANE THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SCOTT PENNER.
THE CAVE. RED ORCHID THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS.
SLOW AIR. STEEP THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE MUSICAL. CAPITAL CITY THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS.
assisted in rough model making, drafting, color elevations, final model.
LITTLE WOMEN. NORTHLIGHT THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS.
assisted in rough model making, drafting, color elevations, final model.
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THE AUDIENCE. DRURY LANE THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: ANDREW BOYCE.
digitally painted elevations of walls to be printed at full scale for the set.
ENGLISH. GOODMAN THEATRE/THE GUTHRIE THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: COURTNEY O'NEIL.
preliminary drafting, final model, onsite at The Guthrie for the transfer during technical rehearsals.
INTO THE WOODS/MIDSUMMER. IDAHO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: COURTNEY O'NEIL.
built and shipped final models.
DANCING AT LUGHNASA. AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: COURNTEY O'NEIL
built and shipped final model.
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY. THE ZACH THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS.
assisted in research, assisted in building final model.
THE BRIGHTEST THING IN THE WORLD. ABOUT FACE THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS. assisted in research, assisted in photoshop set exploration, assisted in preliminary drafting.
A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. STEEP THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: SOTIRIOS LIVADITIS.
assisted in research, preliminary drafting, assisted in building white model.
BILLY ELLIOT. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: MICHELLE LILLY.
assisted in building and painting the final model.
SCHOOL OF ROCK. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. SET DESIGNER: MICHELLE LILLY.
assisted in preliminary drafting, photoshopped color elevations.
TEACHING
INTR
Intro to Set Design at Northwestern University/ 2021
Intro to Costume Design at Northwestern University/2021
EDUCATION
Northwestern University
MFA in Scenic Design
University of Minnesota Duluth
BFA in Scenic Design
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