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Thaddeus Shannon

Assistant Professor, Theatre/Dance

(503) 838-8095 | shannont@wou.edu | RA 108

Tad Shannon / Assistant Professor; Lighting Designer: (RA 108, 838-8095, shannont@wou.edu): Tad recently joined the WOU faculty after many years as a freelance lighting designer. He has been the resident designer with Portland’s Do Jump Movement Theatre since 1992, designing the lighting and rigging for national tours in 2000, 2001 and 2007. He received a Theatre LA Ovation award for the lighting of the Los Angeles production of Do Jump’s Openings and Doors at the Geffen Playhouse. He has designed lights for a wide variety of regional dance and theatre companies including many productions as the resident designer for Portland’s New Rose Theatre and San Francisco’s Sweet Can Productions. He has designed for Rainbow Dance Theatre since 2002. Tad received his Ph.D. in Systems Science from Portland State University in 2007.