CURRICULUM VITAE
June 1, 2022
Matt Kizer
Matt Kizer Design LLC
+1(603)236-2638
www.scenicandlighting.com
mkizer@scenicandlighting.com
Professor of Theatre Design and Technology
Plymouth State University
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SUMMARY: Matt Kizer has worked in higher education for thirty years. He has worked professionally in the theatre industry for over thirty-six years. Kizer has overseen Theatre Design and Technology at Plymouth State University since 1996.
Kizer has designed scenery, lighting, and projections for national tours, theatres, workshops, and universities in the U.S.A and internationally, including Italy, Taiwan, D.C., Cyprus, New York, and Germany. These total over 300 productions. He maintains online resources that include virtual labs, videos, and articles that are used by thousands of students and institutions around the world daily. He serves as webmaster and designer for a variety of New York-based websites for theatre resources and Broadway sales. He is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) and the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects, and Technicians (OISTAT).
Kizer has served in leadership positions on behalf of the university and the greater community. These include serving as chair of the Department of Music, Theatre, & Dance at Plymouth State University with over thirty-five faculty in wide-ranging disciplines. His greater role was as transformational leader for an academic unit of seven departments (the Arts & Technologies Cluster), including: English; Communications; Art; Philosophy; Computer Science; Integrated Arts; plus, the department of Music, Theatre, & Dance. He also presided over a large non-profit arts organization with a board of fourteen trustees that served institutions and communities across the state of New Hampshire.
EDUCATION: |
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1995 |
M.F.A. |
The Ohio State University. Primary studies in Design for Performing Arts. |
1992 |
B.A. |
Purdue University. Primary studies in Theatre Arts emphasizing design & technology. |
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT:
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2012 – Present |
Professor, Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance, Plymouth State University. |
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2001 – 2012 |
Associate Professor, Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance, Plymouth State University. |
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1996 – 2001 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance, Plymouth State University. |
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1996 |
Visiting Professor, Randolph Macon Woman’s College, Department of Theatre. |
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1992-1995 |
Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, Department of Theatre. |
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OTHER EMPLOYMENT & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: |
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2014 – Present |
Matt Kizer
Design LLC. Rental projection media and theatre educational tools.
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2012 – Present |
Webmaster for All Tickets Inc in New York, NY. This includes two Broadway Theatre group ticketing sites, plus three open-education resource sites: AllTicketsInc.com, BroadwayTix.com, BroadwayIQ.com, BroadwayScene.com, Broadway Educators.com. |
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2007 – 2015 |
Scenic Designer, North Country Center for the Arts: Papermill Theatre. Served as the resident scenic designer for a transition across multiple venues during demolition, design, and construction of new facility. |
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2003 – 2004 |
Faculty Lighting Designer, Operafestival di Roma, Rome, Italy. Designed and implemented lighting for outdoor opera performance in a 12th century courtyard adjacent to Piazza Navona and the Italian Parliament with the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’ International Chamber Ensemble at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza in central Rome. |
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2000-2002 |
Scenic Designer, Barnstormers Theatre, Tamworth, NH. Barnstormers is the oldest ongoing professional summer theatre in the United States. |
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1996-2002 |
Designer & Technical Director for Kearsarge Arts Theatre (KAT Company), NH. KAT Company was a repeated recipient of the Moss Hart Award for Youth & Children’s Theatre and a presentation by invitation at the Kennedy Center in D.C. |
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1995 |
Technical Director, White River Theatre Festival, White River Junction, VT. |
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING |
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2017 |
Collaborative Leadership Institute: Collaborative Leadership in Higher Education. Led by Academic Impressions. Series of all-day training workshops on designing meeting structures. |
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2016 – 2017 |
Howard Teibel workshop series: Navigating Change. Presented by Teibel Inc. https://teibelinc.com/ |
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USITT 2019 PQ Exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance and Design. This work was included as a part of the United States’ international installation at the Prague Quadrennial, as well as at the USITT National Conference and Stage Expo in Louisville. http://pq19.usitt.org/professional World
Stage Design 2017 Reconnect (July 5, 2017), workshop. Presented a
series of workshops on how physical space interacts with performance and
movement in the presence of media and design. Taipei School of the Arts,
Taipei City, Taiwan. http://www.wsd2017.com/scenofest/detail/?pid=501
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Cyprus
Theater Organization and Cyprus Centre of Scenographers, Theatre
Architects and Technicians. Solo presentation of a four-day seminar on the
uses of projections and projection mapping in performing arts. Funded by a
grant from the Cyprus Ministry of Culture. Dec. 4-7, 2015. http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/11/28/controlling-projection/ |
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Stadt
für eine Nacht: Puppets Red III: Guest designer, A-Fortiori and Alban
Elved Dance Company, Schiffbauergasse, Potsdam, Germany, 2011. https://www.t-werk.de/programm.11.html?bab/eventid=1356 |
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Operafestival
di Roma: The Magic Flute
(2004):
Maestro del Luci (lighting designer). Operafestival di
Roma with
the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’ International Chamber Ensemble at Sant’Ivo alla
Sapienza in central Rome. Performed in a courtyard adjoining a 13th
century baroque cathedral attached to the Italian Parliament, adjacent to
Piazza Navona and the Pantheon. |
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Operafestival di Roma: L’elisir di amore (The Elixir of Love) (2003): Maestro del Luci (lighting designer). Operafestival di Roma with the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’ International Chamber Ensemble at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza in central Rome. Same details as above.
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NATIONAL
EXHIBITIONS, DESIGNS, DESIGN WORK, AND WORKSHOPS: · The Greek Trilogy Project (March 2017), Presentation. United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference. St. Louis, MO.. · National Opera Association, New York, NY, 2013: Integrating Projections into the Show (workshop/lecture) · "Auburn University Department of Art Studio Faculty Exhibition." Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. 901 South College Street, Auburn, Alabama 36849. March 24–May 19, 2012. Scenic and lighting designs for Hamlet included · Lighting Design Highlights of the Prague Quadrennial (March 2012), Panel Discussion, United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference. Long Beach, CA. · Projection Workshop, Saint Louis University Theatre (March 2000). Hosted by Dr. Mark Landis and Professor Cristina Markham. · High Tech Done Low, (March, 2000), Panel Discussion, United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference, Denver, CO. · What I Never Learned in College, (March 1994), Panel Discussion, United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference. Nashville, TN Open Education Resources and Web Design
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DESIGN WORK |
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1995 – 2019 |
Over 120 productions, including musicals, devised works, straight
plays, dance, and opera, in three venues. |
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PerSeverence Productions – national commercial tour |
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2015-2021 |
Scenic
Design & Projections: A Christmas Carol, syndicated by CMI
Productions. Fully animated and mapped projection media with original set
design, engineered to tour nationally to upwards of twenty-four venues in
eighteen states,, as far as New Mexico, Washington state, and Florida.
This work is revisited and updated annually before it tours. |
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Auburn University Theatre (Auburn, AL) |
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2014-2017 |
Scenic design, projection design, and lighting design for six productions in two spaces. |
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2007-2015 |
Scenic designs for over twenty-five productions in three spaces, with eight directors. |
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Kearsarge Arts Theatre
This company stopped producing after the 2012 season. It was a very
large, award-winning children’s theatre company that produced in the summer in
New Hampshire.
1996-2012 Design for sixteen musical productions, some of which won
national awards, and one of which was presented by invitation at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C.
Educational Theatre Collaborative, NH (Trish
Lindberg, director)
This company produces once a year, in January, emphasizing collaboration
between the education program at Plymouth State and the community. At times it
has as many as 120 performers, and aims for production values that might be
compared to a LORT B theatre.
1997 – 2019 Design for fifteen musicals, including some original scripts
and scores.
Other Professional Companies, Colleges, and Universities
Kizer has designed for many other institutions including Brown University, The
Ohio State University, The New Hampshire Historical Society, and more.
1990 – 2019 Upwards of over 120 other designs for dozens of institutions not
listed here.
LEADERSHIP AT PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY:
2017-2019 |
Chair, Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance |
2016-2017 |
Cluster Guide for Arts & Technologies Cluster. This included English, Communications, Art, Philosophy, Computer Science, Integrated Arts, Music, Theatre, & Dance. |
2004-2006 |
Curriculum Committee |
1998-2002 |
Communication Studies Council. |
1998-1999 |
Dean’s Advisory Board on Technology. |
1999-2000 |
Chair, General Education Committee. |
1998-2000 |
General Education Committee. |
1998-1999 |
Executive Council for the University. |
OTHER SERVICE TO PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY
Created and organized an advocacy group for the performing arts at Plymouth State University consisting of prominent regional business leaders and key personalities on campus. This regional and campus community group fosters support and initiatives on behalf of the Silver Center for the Arts. They are the Silver Ambassadors. This included recruitment, drafting all correspondence, determining benefits, organizing reception events, creating physical materials, organization with the administration on campus, and more.
Created a digital callboard for the performing arts at
Plymouth State University. This is a content-management system based on
WordPress with original extra code. Includes calendar, cast lists, sign-up
sheets for many purposes, contact sheets, practicum management, photo archives,
and it collects and stores bios for programs. A demo is available here: https://youtu.be/wdKPV6i6yuk. The actual
URL is here: http://plymouth.showportal.net/
(requires login).
SERVICE
TO THE COMMUNITY
2019 Obtained a grant from the New Hampshire State Council for the
Arts, facilitated a regional marketing project called Granite Arts
Festival. Worked with faculty, students, and regional organizations.
2008 – 2011 Served as President for Friends of the Arts
Regional Arts Council. Non-profit organization with a board of fourteen
trustees and $250,000 annual operating budget that created regional arts
programming.
PUBLICATIONS
Professor Kizer has published over thirty-five articles in a
variety of media, plus many educational resources. Publications include both
digital and printed articles for USITT-PQ, USITT-Sightlines, Broadway
Educators, and more. Kizer also publishes open-education resources and
for-purchase resources on ScenicandLighting.com. These include browser-based
3D light labs, classroom tools, educational playing card sets, and digital
projection media. Included among this body of work are short video articles on
a variety of topics. These include some of his work with digital media
interacting with performers, conceptualizing how vision works with projections,
important basic principles of set design and stagecraft, and more.
http://pq15.usitt.org/ • http://broadwayeducators.com • https://scenicandlighting.com
• http://broadwayiq.com/ • https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/production-beating.html