Scenic and/or Costume Designs (Partial listing)
THE ACTING COMPANY, New York City, NY
The Country Wife (National Tour).
ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY, Tucson, AZ (1980-84)
Gary Gisselman, Artistic Director.
Billy Bishop Goes to War, A Christmas Carol, Custer, The House of Blue Leaves, Indulgences in the Louisville Harem, A Little Night Music, Our Town, The Taming of the Shrew, Tintypes, Waiting for Godot (also costumes).
BRASS TACKS THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis, MN
Forty Scenes of Halloween.
CHANHASSEN DINNER THEATERS, Chanhassen, MN
Gary Gisselman, Artistic Director.
Beyond Therapy, Christmas, Fiddler on the Roof, The Foreigner, Home for the Holidays, The Middle Ages, My Fair Lady, Sleuth, Talley’s Folly, You and the Night and the Music.
THE CHILDREN’S THEATRE COMPANY, Minneapolis, MN
Resident and Guest Designer. 50 productions. See separate page.
CHIMERA THEATER COMPANY, St. Paul, MN
Caesar and Cleopatra, Fiddler on the Roof, Funny Girl, The Mikado, Peter Pan, Sweet Charity, The Threepenny Opera, Three Postcards.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY
The Tempest, The Trials of Brother Jiru.
THE CRICKET THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis, MN
Bill Semans, Artistic Director. Dick Leerhoff, John Flynn.
And Where She Stops Nobody Knows, Colette, Dames at Sea, Deer Kill, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Lemon Sky, Reckless, Savage in Limbo, Stieglitz Loves O’Keefe, Three Postcards.
EDYTH BUSH THEATER, St. Paul, MN
Death Takes a Holiday, Today’s Daughters, U.S.A.
THE GUTHRIE THEATER, Minneapolis, MN
Resident and Guest Designer, Director of Stage Design. 22 Productions. See separate page.
I. A. O’SHAUGHNESSY OPERA, St. Paul, MN
Amahl and the Night Visitors.
MINNESOTA DANCE THEATER, Minneapolis, MN
Aurora’s Wedding, Facade, The Incubus, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, The Nutcracker Fantasy (1970-79), La Fille Mal Gardee, Peter and the Wolf, Les Patineurs, Song of the Earth.
MINNESOTA OPERA COMPANY, St. Paul, MN
Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Bartered Bride, Christopher Columbus, Cosi Fan Tutti (also tour), Frankenstein, Gulliver, Hansel and Gretel (also tour), Madame Butterfly, Postcard from Morocco (also costumes), Rosina (also tour).
THE OHIO BALLET, Akron OH
A Fairy Tale (also costumes), The Little Match Girl (also costumes, also tour).
SAINT PAUL OPERA COMPANY, St. Paul, MN
Gianni Schicchi, Hansel and Gretel, Oklahoma, Siegfried.
SLIGHT OPERA COMPANY, St. Paul, MN
Iolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (and Related Theaters), Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN
Angelique, Carmen, Cosi Fan Tutti, El Tubaro, HMS Pinafore, Iolanthe, La Perichole, La Ronde, The Marriage of Figaro, The Mikado, Stravinksy’s Oedipus, The Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, The Threepenny Opera, The Yeomen of the Guard.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, Las Cruces, NM
Of Mice and Men, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Awards / Recognition (Partial listing)
Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle 1981 John K. Sherman Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Minneapolis and St. Paul theater.
Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle Kudos Awards for Outstanding Scenic Design (1980-83): Eve of Retirement (Guthrie Theater Company); The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas, Pippi Longstocking, The Secret Garden (Children’s Theatre Company).
University of Minnesota Centennial Showboat Alumnus Award: 1987.
State of Minnesota Governor’s Proclamation: “Jack Barkla Day” December 8, 1989.
KARE-11 Television “Good Neighbor” Award: 1989.
United Scenic Artists Local 350 Certificate of Achievement 1989.
