Theatre and Dance

Jeff Herrmann is a Professor of Theatre at Baldwin Wallace University. As the resident scenic and lighting designer for the program, production design work for BW has included Rent, La Bohème, Moon Over Buffalo, Hamlet and Miss Elizabeth Bennet. Outside of BW, Professor Herrmann has designed for Cain Park in Cleveland Heights where productions have included Tintypes, Bye-Bye Birdie, Damn Yankees, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver, Songs for a New World, Hair, Dreamgirls and the Cleveland premiere of tick...tick...Boom! . For Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights, he has designed the Cleveland premieres of Closer, W;t, Refuge, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Take Me Out, Blackbird, The Last Five Years and Blue Door.  For the Beck Center in Lakewood he designed scenery and lighting for Spring Awakening, a joint production with BW. A resident designer for Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, he has designed Bat Boy: The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Cabaret and Into the Woods, all joint productions with Idaho Shakespeare Festival.  Also for Great Lakes Theater he designed the lighting for Stories by Heart, written and performed by John Lithgow, and most recently he designed the scenery for Sondheim on Sondheim, the first national production performed outside of NY. Other Idaho Shakespeare Festival designs include I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, The Spitfire Grill, Little Shop of Horrors and Noises Off. Professor Herrmann holds an MFA in scene and lighting design from Southern Illinois University and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.  To learn more about Professor Herrmann's work click on the following links  The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Noises Off.