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Office: COM 142A
Phone: 713-743-2816
FAX: 713-743-2648
Email: krigdon@uh.edu
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Biography
Kevin Rigdon is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of
Theatre and is the Head of Graduate Design. In addition to
teaching, Mr. Rigdon is the Associate Director/Design for
Houston ’s Alley Theatre.
Mr. Rigdon’s career in theatre began in 1974 when he joined
fellow classmates Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry as the resident
designer for the newly formed Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Since then, Mr. Rigdon has designed over 360 productions
including the Broadway productions of One Flew Over The
Cuckoo’s Nest (lighting), The Old Neighborhood (scenery),
Buried Child (lighting), The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice
(lighting), The Song Of Jacob Zulu (scenery), A Streetcar Named
Desire (lighting), The Grapes Of Wrath (scenery and lighting),
Our Town (lighting), Ghetto (lighting), Speed The Plow (lighting),
The Caretaker (scenery and lighting), and Glengarry Glen Ross
(lighting).
In London his designs include Waiting for Godot, You Never Can
Tell, and Orphans in the West End, The Grapes Of Wrath and
Speed The Plow for The Royal National Theatre, One Flew Over
The Cuckoo’s Nest and The Man Who Came To Dinner for the
Barbican Centre, and American Buffalo for Donmar Warehouse.
For Sir Peter Hall and Theatre Royal Bath his designs include
Measure for Measure (Bath, RSC), Habeas Corpus (Bath,
National tour), Miss Julie, Much Ado About Nothing, Waiting for
Godot, You Never Can Tell (Bath, National tour), Galileo’s
Daughter (World Premiere), Don Juan, and Man and Superman.
Off-Broadway Mr. Rigdon’s designs include: American Buffalo,
Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Oleanna, Distant Fires,
Unidentified Human Remains, Orphans, Balm In Gilead, True
West, Edmond, Road, and Picasso At The Lapin Agile.
As Resident Designer for Steppenwolf Theatre Company from
1974 to 1996 he designed over 110 productions including the
critically acclaimed productions of The Glass Menagerie, The
Caretaker, True West, Balm In Gilead, The Grapes Of Wrath, A
Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, and One Flew
Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
For Houston ’s Alley Theatre his designs include: Clybourne
Park, The Invention Of Love, Of Mice And Men, Equus, The
Greeks, Closer, Inherit The Wind, In The Jungle Of Cities, The
Crucible, and Our Town.
Mr. Rigdon has also designed for The Kennedy Center,
American Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,
The Cleveland Playhouse, Lincoln Center Theatre, Old Globe
Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, Ford's
Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Stages Repertory
Theatre, The Rice Players, The Houston Shakespeare Festival,
The Festival of Perth, The Festival of Sydney, and The Cameri
Theatre of Tel-Aviv.
Mr. Rigdon has been honored with two Tony Award nominations,
seven Joseph Jefferson Awards, four Drama Desk Award
nominations, two American Theatre Wing Design Awards, The
Drama Logue Award and the Houston Theatre Award. In 2003
his designs for American Buffalo were exhibited in Prague,
Czech Republic as a part of the United States National Exhibit of
the Prague Quadrennial Scenography Exposition. Mr. Rigdon is
a member of United Scenic Artists local 829 and serves on the
Board of Directors of the United States Institute for Theatre
Technology and is the Curator of the American National Exhibit
for the 2015 Prague Quadrennial.