With extensive design credits in virtually every medium of the performing arts, Goheen has designed innovative and acclaimed stage settings for a rich variety of production venues in such diverse locations as Belgium, Colómbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Poland, Romania, Scotland, and many American cities, including Hollywood. Committed to a combination of professional and academic activity for his students and himself, Goheen’s design training program enables a television art direction and production design connection while encouraging interests in alternative theatre beyond, way beyond, Hollywood.

While comfortable with the realities of commercial/popular entertainment, Goheen, himself, specializes in the kind of theatre that Eugenio Barba calls, "the outlying zones of Planet Theatre; the groups that autonomously construct a meaning which does not recognize the boundaries assigned to our craft by the surrounding culture." Like all mature artist/teachers, Goheen brings a distinct aesthetic to his graduate students. His personal preferences are for the risky, the singular, the utterly personal. But, recognizing that some students wish a strong connection to tradition and commercial viability, his teaching goal is to help gifted design students of any artistic persuasion find their own way as artists. "We are, each, unique, biological organisms capable of unique, artistical visions."

Goheen has a BA in Theatre/Television from The College of William and Mary, an MFA in scene design from the Yale School of Drama, a Ph.D. In Dramatic Literature from the University of Denver, memberships in USAA Local 829 (New York,) IATSE Local 816 (Hollywood,) URTA and teaches his students how to design for performance with a computer.

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