Scene Design Faculty

Douglas-Scott Goheen, PhD is the head of the Graduate Scene Design Program and is partnered in core course instruction by Cliff Faulkner. These senior scene design professors have deep history and rich experience in all performance/entertainment design. They share all production mentoring, academic advising and professional counseling activities with grad scenics. While maintaining active professional schedules of their own, Goheen and Faulkner regard UCI as their principal commitment and focus. They are a nearly constant on-campus presence with broad availability for student consultation. Design mentoring is a high art form in itself at UCI.

Douglas-Scott Goheen

Core Studio Sequence (DR 255,) all Computer Graphics, and a wide range of Independent studies.

Cliff Faulkner

Core Studio Sequence (DR 255,) Concepts and Collaboration, Script Analysis, and a wide range of Independent studies.

Lonnie Alcaraz, Head of Graduate Design & Lighting

CAD and computer modeling for scene designers. Prof. Alcaraz is a lighting design professor who leads the CAD curriculm and team teaches 3d modeling with Prof. Goheen.

Madeline Kozlowski Head of Costume Design
Shigeru Yaji Costume Design Professor
Tom Ruzika Lighting Design Professor

These professors complete the graduate design faculty. These professional designer/teachers all offer a certain number of courses within their specialty for graduate scene designers and all are available for supervising Independent Study courses.

The full faculty of seven provides a depth and breadth of experience that is unparalleled in a period when excellent training for traditional theatre alone is not enough. These seven designer/teachers have excellent national and international credits in film, television, themed entertainment, industrials, commercials, music videos as well as traditional and alternative theatre, dance and opera. Today's design-for-the-theatre training must expand to prepare young scene designers for a whole host of related and allied performance/ entertainment forms.

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