Mary Therese D’Avignon
ED EDUCATION
MFA in theatre design
MA in directing
BA in Theatre/Graphic Arts
Designer Portfolio Review
9735 Larga, Dallas, TX 75220
214-358-3567
mtdavignon@gmail.com
Brandeis University, awarded ’80
University of Louisville, awarded’77
University of Dallas, awarded ’75
League Show, honored ’80
cum laude
summa cum laude
magna cum laude
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
’86 – ‘10
Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, Dallas, TX.
Intro to Tech, Costume & Set Design (all levels), Make-up, Scene-painting,
Properties, Costume Construction (all levels), Mask-making
’84 – ‘86
Northlake Jr. College, Irving, TX. Continuing Education
Beginning Acting and Auditioning, Mask-making
’80 – ‘83
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA . Assistant Professor
Intro to Theatre, Scene-painting I & II, Costume I
’79 – ‘80
Cambridge High School of Weston, Weston, MA. Set & Light Design
OPERA IN THE OZARKS
Inspiration Point Summer Opera, Eureka Springs, AR. Costume Designer (‘89” – ’92)
Madame Butterfly, Carmen, La Boheme, The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief, Merry Widow, I
Pagliacci, La Cenerentola, The Crucible, Signor DeLuso, The Marriage of Figaro, Pirates of Penzance,
Turn of the Screw, Hansel and Gretel, Dialogue of the Carmelites.
STAGEDOOR MANOR
Performing Arts Camp Loch Sheldrake, N.Y. Costume Shop Head (’93 – ’97)
A Little Night Music, Red, Hot and Cole, Little Women, Moby Dick, the musical, Bye, Bye Birdie,
Children of Eve, Little Shop of Horrors, Cry Havoc, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pippin, Hair,
Quilters, Our Town, Sondheim Review, Dark of the Moon, Oliver, Perfectly Frank, Bingo.
THEATRE/DANCE COSTUME DESIGNS
Dallas Theatre Center
Beauty and the Beast
Theatre Three
A Little Night Music, Arms and the Man, Charlotte Sweet
El Centro Ballet
Courtin’, Fleur de Lis
New Arts Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff
Virginia Tech
My Sister in This House, Good Woman of Setzuan,
A Streetcar Named Desire, The Deluge, Wiley and the Hairy Man
School Shows
Women of Trachis, Ion, She Stoops to Conquer
THEATRE/DANCE SET DESIGNS
Greenville Avenue Theatre Win/Lose/Draw
Garland Civic Theatre
Children of a Lesser God
Virginia Tech
Step on a Crack, Wiley and the Hairy Man
Fulton Opera House
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
School Shows
*Endgame at Kiryat Gat, *Naim, Three Penny Opera, Schweyck in the
Second World War, A Thin Thread, Lovers, Measure for Measure, You
Can’t Take it With You, Scapino.
DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATRE
Costumes
*Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (’02 & ‘08)
*If You Give a Pig a Party
Miracle Worker
A Midnight Cry
*Coyote Tales (’03 & ’05)
*If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (’95 & ’04)
The Island of the Skog
*The Three Sillies
*Miss Nelson is Missing
A Glory Over Everything
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Boy Who Drew Cats
The Rememberer
A Woman Called Truth
The Prince and the Pauper
Kringle’s Window
Ramona Quimby
A Wrinkle in Time
Come Into the Light
Maggie Magalita
Charlotte’s Web
Ananse the Spider Man
Snow White
*Ghosts of Japan
*Dragon
Russian director, Yuli Gussman
The Snow Queen
Babar
Cinderella/Everybody Needs a Fairy Godmother
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
*Merry Christmas, Strega Nona
Tom Sawyer
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Wild Things
A Wind in the Door
Sets
Sleeping Beauty
*Deadly Weapons
*The Surprising Story of the Three Little Pigs
*The Yellow Boat
Little Women
Beauty and the Beast (‘92 & ‘95)
The Secret Garden (‘88 & ‘94)
The Curse of Castle Mongrew (’91 & “10)
*Fiesta Mexicana
Anne of Green Gables
A Tale of Twelfth Night
Jungalbook
Dracula (‘91 & ‘99)
Sisters
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
The Phantom Tollbooth
Babar
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
*The Woods at Bear Bottom Creek
Director, Paul Baker
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
*Kegger
*Doors
Peter Pan
A Wind in the Door
Wizard of Oz
A Wrinkle in Time
LIGHTING DESIGN
A Flea in Her Ear, The Price, Sylvia Plath, The Tempest
DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
Trojan Women, A Delicate Balance, The Robber Bridegroom, Playboy of the Western World, From Morn to
Midnight, Ondine, *Down the Rabbit Hole, *Saint Nick, *Gale,* As Es la Vida
SCENIC PAINTING
Holiday-in-the-Park, Six Flags Over Texas
The Plaza Theatre, chargeman
Summerfare, ’82, Head Scenic Artist
Fulton Opera House, ’81, Head Scenic Artist
Louisville Ballet, ’76, journeyman
Guthrie Theatre
Speelunker Cave Drops
Crimes of the Heart, Palace of Amateurs
*The Queen and the Rebels, Female Parts, Missa Brevis,
Cry of Clytemnestra
Kiss Me Kate, Charley’s Aunt, One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest
Coppelia
Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, A Doll’s House