Richard Harmon

Background

About Richard Harmon

Richard Harmon has been a professor and designer in the Fine and Performing Arts Program at Seminole State College for the past 12 years. Locally, he served as an Associate Professor with the Department of Theatre at The University of Central Florida where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in theatrical design and technical theatre. Prior to joining the Department of Theatre at UCF, he was a faculty member of the Theatre Program at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky where he was a recipient of a Bingham Award Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. He has been responsible for the designs of sets, lights, and/or costumes for over 200 productions in the area of theatre and dance. Rich is a graduate of New York University’s School of the Arts where he received both B.F.A. and M.F.A. Degrees. Ensemble Studio Theatre, Hudson Guild Theatre, Theatre at St. Clements, Theatre for the New City, Equity Library Theatre, The Negro Ensemble Company, and Riverside Shakespeare Company number among the dozen-plus off-Broadway theatres in which his work has appeared. With his work as a resident designer for New Federal Theatre he has merited two AUDELCO Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre. Rich is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. He has served as a teacher of theatrical design on the faculties of several universities including Bucknell, Cornell, SUNY at Old Westbury, UC at Santa Barbara and Hofstra University.