Graphic Design
in Theatre

Students in the THAR 365 Desktop Publishing for Theatre course design, layout and edit programs/playbills, posters, postcards and other publicity, and archive webpages of productions. Students are taught in graphic design industry standard software, such as Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

While students can also get similar experience through the journalism program and the campus newspaper or through visual art courses, the Desktop Publishing for Theatre course provides the best settings of all of the other options: a tutorial environment, the chance to produce original design work, and fewer deadlines without having to re-invent the wheel every week.

Sample student design work is shown or linked below.

Poster designs by James Darrah '06

Poster design by
Rhiannon Cuddy '07
& James Darrah '06

Poster design by
Brianna Roth '06
& James Darrah '06

Poster design by
Rhiannon Cuddy '07
& Kameron Taylor

Poster design by
Hilary Hahn '04

Poster designs and webpages by Rebecca Campana '05

Web page for Brecht-Fest with Weill (January 2003)
Web page for Naughty Marietta (Fall 2002)
Poster design & Web page for The Rocky Horror Show (Fall 2003)

Poster designs by David Baldizon '03

Poster by Brianna Roth '06
Illustrated by Nikki Horton

Webpages designed by Sara Wilhoit (class of 2004)
Web page for Medea (Spring 1995)
Web page for Little Shop of Horrors (January 2002)
Web page for Don Juan (Spring 2001)
Web page for Marat/Sade (January 2004)

Webpages designed by Pamela Brownlee '02

Webpage designed by Tirzah Rodgers '05
Web page for John O'Neal Performance (Spring 2001)
Web page for LaRonde
(Spring 2000)
Web page for Oleanna (Fall 2000)
Web page for Tom Paine (Fall 2000)

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