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SPENCER M. POTTER M.F.A.

Assistant Professor spotter@westminstercollege.edu


Department of Theatre office: 801.832.2464
Westminster College spencerpotterdesign.com

EDUCATION
M.F.A. - Theatre Arts in Costume and Scenic Design
Utah State University - 2014

B.S. - Integrated Studies with emphasis in Psychology and Theatre


Dixie State College - 2011

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) 2015 – current


Board Member, USITT Intermountain Desert Region 2018 – current
Member, Costume Society of America 2018 – current
Member, International Organization of Scenographers, 2015 – current
Theatre Architects, and Technicians

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Theatre – Westminster College


Salt Lake City, UT 2017 – current

Teaching topics and skills primarily in costume design, general theatre design, and
general theatre technology including: hair makeup design, rendering methods and
techniques, design composition, design communication, text analysis, and portfolio
development. Additionally, responsible for designing and implementing costume and
hair and makeup for all four Department of Theatre productions each year. Design
responsibilities include managing a part time costume shop manager, seven student
employees, budgets, and costume shop facility and equipment maintenance. Additional
departmental duties include: recruiting, season selection, student advising and
mentoring, and curriculum development.

THTR 217 – Costume Design for Theatre


THTR 218 – Stage Makeup
THTR 260 – Design for the Theatre
THTR 320 – Scenic Design
THTR 328 – Advanced Workshop in Technical Theatre
THTR 329 – Stage Costumes II

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SPENCER M. POTTER M.F.A

Instructor of Scenic Design – Western Washington University


Bellingham, WA 2016 – 2017

Yearlong appointment responsible for teaching curriculum related to scenic design and
technology. Topics and skills included: computer aided drafting and rending, model
building, rendering methods and techniques, design composition, visual communication,
text analysis, portfolio development. Other departmental responsibilities included
advising and mentoring design students, supervising design assignments, and designing
scenery for two of six productions for the Department of Theatre and Dance.

THTR 210 – Foundations in Design Communication


THTR 255 – Production Technology
THTR 311 – Beginning Scenic Design
THTR 320 – Digital Drafting and Design
THTR 355 – Intermediate Theatre Technology
THTR 412 – Advanced Stage Craft
THTR 455 – Advanced Production/Design
THTR 496 – Senior Capstone Thesis

Visiting Assistant Professor of Scenography – St. Mary’s College of Maryland


St. Mary’s City, MD 2015 – 2016

Visiting appointment responsible for teaching curriculum related to scenic design,


costume design, and hair and makeup design for theatre and film. Departmental
responsibilities included: designing scenery, costumes, and hair and makeup for all three
Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Studies productions. Additional department
responsibilities included managing the costume shop, costume budgets, a part time staff
member, four to five student employees, and mentoring students assisting with scene
painting, costume construction, and hair and makeup.

TFMS 280 – Costumes and Clothing in History


TFMS 275 – Special Topic in Production: Makeup – Beauty, Gender, &
Monstrosity
TFMS 171 – Elements of Design – Scenery, Costumes, & Lighting
TFMS 375 – Costume Design

Sabbatical Replacement - Shenandoah University - Winchester, VA Spring 2015

Taught courses in costume design for the spring 2015 semester. Also responsible for
designing costumes for two productions at the Shenandoah Conservatory.

Theatre 141 - Theatrical Stage Makeup


Theatre 231 - Costume Design

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Graduate Assistant/ Resident Artist - Utah State University - Logan, UT 2013—


2011 -2014

Responsible for supervising and mentoring student’s working in the Utah State
University Department of Theatre Arts’ production shops and studios. Areas supervised
included properties, set dressing, scenic art, scenic construction, costumes, and costume
crafts. Additional responsibilities included tracking shop budgets, managing build
timelines and production deadlines, and organizing and maintaining the largest
collection of costumes and props in the intermountain region.

Theatre 1513 - Stage Craft (each semester)


Theatre 2555 - Production Practicum (each semester)

INVITED WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS

Workshop: No Capes! Designing your Super Hero/Villain Name. An approach to


developing costume designs via word association and quick sketches.
Utah Theatre Association 2018

Workshop: Portfoli-Ohs! Design/Technology portfolio development for graduating high


school students.
Utah Theatre Association 2018
Las Vegas Arts Academy 2017

Workshop: Each Hole and Stain Tells a Story: Costume Distressing 101
Utah State University, 2013

Workshop: Developing Your Own Design Process


Utah Theatre Association, 2012

Presentation: The Cost of Cutting Higher Education Budgets on Arts Education


Testimony on behalf of the Utah Student Association and State Board of Regents
to the Utah State Legislature.

Workshops for Cape May Stage’s Resident Intern Company. Topics included: Drop
Painting, Basic Scenic Construction, and Developing a Portfolio. 2014 -2015

NOTABLE TRAINING & WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

Campus Equity and Inclusion Training Series - Western Washington University 2016

“Successful Grant Writing for Any Agency” - Utah State University School of Graduate
Studies 2013

Numerous USITT and KACTF Workshops in design, theatre management, and technical
theatre
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SPENCER M. POTTER M.F.A

CREATIVE ACTIVITY
Costume Design:

Westminster College – Salt Lake City, UT

The School for Scandal 2018


Men on Boats 2018
The Memory of Water 2018
Spring Awakening 2018
Clybourne Park (co-design) 2017
Love and Information 2017

Salt Lake Acting Company – Salt Lake City, UT

The Cake 2019


HIR 2018
The True Story …Three Little Pigs 2017

Old Lyric Repertory Company – Logan, UT

The Odd Couple 2013

Tuacahn Center for The Arts – Ivins, UT

25th Annual…Spelling Bee 2012


Aladdin (asst.) 2012

St. Mary’s College of Maryland – St. Mary’s City, MD

Striptease 2016
Catastrophe 2016

Shenandoah Conservatory – Winchester, VA

Die Fledermaus 2015


The Roads to Home 2015

Utah State University – Logan, UT

Tarzan 2014
Violet 2013
Pirates of Penzance (asst.) 2011

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Costume Crafts:

Tuacahn Center for the Arts – Ivins, UT

The Little Mermaid 2011


Cats 2010
Tarzan 2010
Crazy for You 2010
Aida 2009
Footloose 2009
Annie 2009
Big River 2008
Les Miserable 2008
Sound of Music 2008
Scenic Design:

Cape May Stage - Cape May, NJ

Erma Bombeck: At Wits End 2018


Ultimate Christmas Story (Abrig.) 2017
Outside Mullingar 2017
Billy Bishop Goes to War 2017
Buyer and Cellar 2016
The Whipping Man 2015
Search for Signs of Intelligent Life 2015
Red Hot Patriot 2015
Blithe Spirit 2014
How to Make a Rope Swing 2013
Time Stands Still (asst.) 2012
Tuna Christmas (asst.) 2012

Old Lyric Repertory Company – Logan, UT

Grey Gardens: The Musical 2018


Wait Until Dark 2017
Singin’ in the Rain 2016
Baskerville (asst.) 2016
Noise Off 2015
And Then There Were None 2014
Tons of Money 2014
The Woman in Black 2013
Steel Magnolias 2012

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Salt Lake Acting Company – Salt Lake City, UT

form of a girl unknown 2018


scenic consultant,
Davey Foundation Theatre Award

Western Washington University – Bellingham, WA

Clybourne Park 2017


Arms and the Man 2017

St. Mary’s College of Maryland - St. Mary’s City, MD

The Marriage of Figaro 2016


Machinal 2016
Striptease 2016
Catastrophe 2016
Crossroads: On Common Ground 2015

Utah State University – Logan, UT

Learned Ladies 2013


Legally Blonde 2012
20th Century 2011
Proof (asst.) 2011

Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre - Logan, UT

Opera by Children Program


Phantom Toll Booth (animator) 2012
Faust (asst.) 2011
Projection Media Design:

Cape May Stage – Cape May, NJ

Buyer and Cellar 2016

St. Mary’s College of Maryland - St. Mary’s City, MD

Machinal 2016
Crossroads: On Common Ground 2015

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Props and Set Dressing:

Cape May Stage - Cape May, NJ

Time Stands Still (asst.) 2012

Old Lyric Repertory Company – Logan Utah

Amadeus 2011
Little shop of Horrors 2011
See How They Run 2011
The 39 Steps 2011

Scenic Charge Artist:

Cape May Stage - Cape May, NJ

Search for Signs… 2015


Mary, Mary 2015
Red Hot Patriot 2015
Mistakes Were Made 2014
Blithe Spirit 2014
Moon Over Buffalo 2014
The Mountain Top 2014
How to Make a Rope Swing 2014
Time Stands Still (asst.) 2012
Tuna Christmas (asst.) 2012

Utah State University – Logan Utah

Emma 2013
Pirates of Penzance 2011
Step on a Crack 2011

Production Management:

Lyric Repertory Company- Logan, UT 2018

Cape May Stage – Cape May, NJ 2015

Old Lyric Repertory Company- Logan, UT 2013

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Technical Direction:

Cape May Stage - Cape May, NJ

Mary, Mary 2015


Red Hot Patriot 2014
Mistakes Were Made 2014
Other Desert Cities 2014
Blithe Spirit 2014
Moon Over Buffalo 2014
The Mountain Top 2014

Other Technical Management:

Old Lyric Repertory Company – Logan, UT

Paint and Properties Supervisor 2016

REVIEWS & FEATURED WORKS

Salt Lake Tribune “Salt Lake Acting Company's ‘HIR’ is wildly comic 2018
and disturbingly provocative”
Behance Set, Props & Costume Motion Gallery Featured Project, 2016
Striptease/Catastrophe: Part of the Adobe family, Behance is the
preeminent online platform for showcasing creative work and
portfolios. The Behance Curatorial Team selects a small number of
projects to temporarily feature at the head of each of their creative
areas.
New York Times Theater Review of “Blithe Spirit at Cape May Stage.” 2014
Broadway World review of How to Make a Rope Swing. 2013
Broadway World review of The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee. 2012

SCHOLARLY & RESEARCH ACTIVITY


2018 – Abstract Juror: Costume Society of America National Symposium.
2014 - Research Assistant: “Historical Dress: A Project Inspired by Janet Arnold” by
Janet Arnold Award Recipient, Nancy Hills. Presented to The Society of Antiquaries of
London. May 2014.

HONORS, AWARDS, & DISTINCTIONS

2014 - Caine College of the Arts Graduate Researcher of the Year – Utah State University
2012 -13 - Charles and Rae Perkins Scholarship – Utah State University
2011 - 13 - Russell Fellowship Recipient – Utah State University

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SPENCER M. POTTER M.F.A

SERVICE

Westminster College

Arts and Science Curriculum Committee 2018-Current

Department of Theatre 2017-Current


Multiple recruiting events including the Las Vegas National
Performing Arts auditions at the Las Vegas Performing Arts
Academy, and the Utah Theatre Association. Additionally, active
costume shop management, student advising, and design student
mentorship.

USITT Intermountain Desert Region

USITT National Conference Student Scholarship Committee Chair 2018-Current


Established policy and procedures for scholarship submission and
review. Chaired a committee with two other professional members
of the USITT Intermountain Desert Region.

Board Member - Membership. 2017-Current


Maintain membership records and manage membership renewal.
Recruit new members and promote awareness of USITT IDR to
theatre and entertainment technology and design professionals,
students, faculty, and staff within Nevada and Utah.

Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival - Region 8

Production Respondent. 2017-Current


Serve as a peer reviewer/respondent to university and college
productions staged within Region 8 of the Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festival. Provide reportage back to
Region 8, regarding production responses, and review whether
productions should be considered for performance at the annual
regional festival.

Western Washington University,

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Intern Selection Committee 2017


Reviewed student applications for consideration of internship
placements at the world renown and Tony award winning

Dr. Martin Luther King Day Celebration Planning Committee. 2016


Organized venue and event scheduling and assisted with
programing development as part of a ten-person committee
consisting of students, faculty, and staff.
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SPENCER M. POTTER M.F.A

Western States Theatre Review

Web designer and consultant in the journals efforts to go online. Researched


website hosting options that best fit the journals need. Successfully facilitated
hosting the journal through BePress, an online open access journal platform, via
Western Washington University CEDAR.

Reviewer for submitted articles.

SMCM Department of Film and Media Studies

Planned and executed significant facilities upgrades in Montgomery Hall


including classrooms, dressing rooms, labs, and other instructional and
performance spaces. Worked with department colleagues on internal grant
applications.

USU Department of Theatre Arts

Caine College of the Arts Differential Tuition Committee 2014


USU Department of Theatre Arts Season Selection Committee 2011

RELAVENCIES & SKILLS

Scenic Design:

Model building, period styles of furniture and architecture,


perspective drawing, set rendering, scenic design media (pencil, ink,
watercolor, gauche, acrylic etc.)

Projection Design and technology:

QLab, Basic Projection Mapping, Computer rendering, motion


rendering, basic animation, basic sound editing, PowerPoint
animation.

Lighting Design and technology:

Photoshop light rendering, basic electrical work, basic programing.

Costume Design:

Figure drawing, costume rendering, rendering media (watercolor,


ink, mixed media, digital media etc.), historic clothing, historic
clothing research and reproduction.

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Costume Technology:

Basic flat patterning, basic draping, basic costume construction,


advanced millinery, advanced textile dyeing and painting, advanced
costume crafts, leatherwork, mask making, leather mask making.

Makeup Design:

Life casting, prosthetic makeup, gore, gender swap, corrective


makeup, character makeup, fantasy makeup.

Computer Aided Design:

Vectorworks, Photoshop, Sketchup, Adobe Premiere, digital drafting,


digital modeling, digital rendering, digital painting.

Scenic Technology, Art, and Props:

Scenic painting, set construction, welding, scenic sculpture, large


puppetry, props design/construction, vaccumform, mold making.

Management:
Budget management, production management, costume shop
management, costume crafts management, technical direction,
project management, budget management, production photography,
theatre management, proposal writing, grant writing, policy writing,
team building, team management, budget, marketing, publicity.

Visual Art:
Dark room photography, digital photography, oil painting, digital
painting.

REFERENCES

Richie Call, Artistic Director – The Lyric Repertory Company


435-797-3050 │ richie.call@usu.edu
Roy Steinberg, Producing Artistic Director – Cape May Stage
609-884-1341 │ roy@capemaystage.org
Cheryl Yancey, Assistant Professor of Costume Design – Shenandoah Conservatory
540-545-7247 │ cyancey@su.edu

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