Design Faculty & Staff
Bonnie Kruger
Professor of the Practice in Drama - Costume Design
Mallinckrodt 113
(314) 935-7522
Bonnie Kruger is Professor of the Practice and Costume Director for Washington University. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois and she has designed costumes for over 200 productions in theatre, opera, dance and film for companies throughout the United States and Europe.
Her principle research interest is in the reconstruction of Baroque opera costume designs for which she has lectured and been recognized as a specialist, largely as a result of her work with the Goettingen Handel Festival where she has been designing costumes since 1990.
In addition to teaching costume design and construction, millinery, makeup, period style and design history at Washington University, she has collaborated with Liz Claire on a Design and Dance program called MADE in France that has its inaugural year in the summer of 2008 and continues to the present.
Robert Mark Morgan
Senior Lecturer in Drama - Scenic Design
Mallinckrodt 306
415-244-0628 (cell)
Robert Mark Morgan is thrilled to be teaching at Washington University having just relocated to St. Louis following 3 years as an Assistant Professor in Scenic Design at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Rob has designed professionally in the areas of theatre, museum, and theme park venues. Avatar the Exhibition (museum exhibit) is currently installed at Experience Music Project in Seattle and tours museums nationwide beginning in September of 2012.
His designs have been seen onstage nationally at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Repertory Theatre (Sarasota, FL), Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Studio Arena (Buffalo, NY), Childrens Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN), Cleveland Play House, The Old Globe Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), Barrington Stage, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, and American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco.
Current projects include: Titus Andronicus, Mary Stuart, and Merry Wives of Windsor for the Utah Shakespeare Festival (summer 2012), The Giver for the Denver Center Theatre Company (September 2012) and The Whipping Man for Cleveland Play House (October, 2012)
Sean M. Savoie
Lecturer in Drama - Lighting Design
Mallinckrodt 309
(314) 935-7523
Sean M. Savoie currently serves as resident Lighting Designer / Production Manager / Design Coordinator at Washington University in St. Louis as well as Production Manager for The Muny right across the street in Forest Park. He received his BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Lighting Design and Technology.
Selected regional lighting design credits include: The Black Rep (Romeo & Juliet, Ragtime (with Washington University), HotCity Theatre (including the Kevin Kline Award nominated Neighborhood 3), St. Louis Shakespeare, Insight Theatre, Upstream Theatre, Wayside Theatre; Shenandoah University; Theatre West Virginia; Tsunami Theatre Company in Washington, DC; New York Chinese Cultural Center; Portland Opera (Associate & Assistant Designer), Know Theatre (including award winning designs for See What I Wanna See & Eurydice), Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Opera (Assistant Designer), and Rising Stars Opera in Rising Sun, IN.
Sean is the very proud recipient of the 2009 United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Rising Star Award and the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award from CCM.
Gina T. Savoie
Production Stage Manager
Mallinckrodt 308
Gina T. Savoie is the Production Stage Manager for Wash U PAD. When not busy overseeing all student stage managers, taking on productions here herself, and teaching a course in stage management, she works freelance as an Equity stage manager for numerous companies in town, including: Opera Theatre St. Louis, MUNY, Hot City Theatre, Missouri Ballet Theatre, and Winter Opera St. Louis. She also serves as the company manager for Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, and is currently producing the inaugural Shakespeare in the Streets project for SFSTL as well. She received her BA in theatre from Rutgers University, and earned her MFA in stage management from the University of Iowa. While at U of I, she worked on numerous new plays, including Eye Piece, written and directed by Rinde Eckert. Gina has also worked for Iowa Summer Rep, the Know Theatre of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and the Cincinnati Opera education tour.