Ryan Bates | Scenic Design

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts in Design, Boston University, 5/15
Thesis: “‘The Exhilaration of Destruction’: Euripides’ The Bacchae and Caryl Churchill’s A Mouthful of Birds”
Recipient of the Douglas W. Schmidt Award for Excellence in Scenic Design

Bachelor of Arts - Joint Major in Theatre and History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury College, 5/11

Educational Positions

Lecturer, “Production Design,” Boston University College of Communication, 1/20 - Present
Lecturer, “Stagecraft: Properties Construction,” Emerson College, 1/20 - Present
Props Director, Emerson College, 12/19 - Present
Adjudicator, Massachusetts High School Drama Festival, 3/17 - Present
Guest Lecturer, “Scenic Design I,” Boston University School of Theatre, Spring 2016
Workshop Leader, “Design and Production for Developing Arts Programs,” Boston Theatre Celebration, 5/16
Teaching Assistant, “Drafting I,” “Drafting II,” “Master Class,” Boston University School of Theatre, 9/12 - 5/15
Scenic Designer/Technical Director, College Light Opera Company, 6/11 - 8/12

DESIGN CREDITS

Longy School of Music
Antigone/Phoebus und Pan

Middlebury College
Art*

The Umbrella
Bent*
Hundred Days
Dear Elizabeth
Melancholy Play

Longwood Players
Burst

New Repertory Theatre
Romeo & Juliet/The Scarlet Letter
We Will Not Be Silent
Ideation
Brecht on Brecht
Thurgood
The Testament of Mary
Via Dolorosa
The Snow Queen

Overdue Films
Poor Glenna

Bridge Repertory Theatre
Dark Room
The Launch Prize
Salome

Boston Public Works
Los Meadows

Maiden Phoenix/Simple Machine
Or

Off the Grid
Blasted

Arts After Hours
The Last Five Years

Fresh Ink
That Time the House Burned Down

Centastage
Academy Fight Song

Gloucester Stage Company
4000 Miles
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Boston University School of Theatre
The Journey
Big Love
Pacific Overtures
Shining City
The Skriker

Boston University Opera Institute
Angels in America
Le Portrait de Manon

Rebecca Miller, director

Alex Draper, director

Peyton Pugmire, director
Brian Boruta, director
Karen Dervin, director
Stephanie LeBolt, director

Adrienne Boris, director


Leila Ghaemi, director
Jim Petosa, director
Jim Petosa, director
Jim Petosa, director
Benny Sato Ambush, director
Jim Petosa, director
David Bryan Jackson, director
Rick Lombardo, director

Jean-Paul DiSciscio, director


Olivia D’Ambrosio, director
Tiffany Nichole Greene, director
Olivia D’Ambrosio, director

Olivia D’Ambrosio, director

Adrienne Boris, director

Johnny Kuntz, director

Adrienne Boris, director

Stephanie LeBolt, director

Joe Antoun, director

Eric Engel, director
Eric Engel, director

Yo-El Cassell, director
Adrienne Boris, director
Jim Petosa, director
Hondo Weiss-Richmond, director
Hondo Weiss-Richmond, director

Jim Petosa, director
David Gately, director

11/22

4/20

4/20
2/20
3/17
2/17

12/19

10/19
10/18
9/17
2/17
1/17
2/16
1/16
11/15

8/19

8/18
3/16
10/15

6/17

10/17

9/16

6/16

4/16

9/15

7/14
6/14

4/18
4/14
11/13
4/13
2/13

4/15
10/12

*Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic