Kenton Yeager

Kenton has designed, produced or directed more than 500 productions for Theatre, Dance, Music, Industrials, Churches, Festivals, Architecture, Youth Audiences and National Tours both nationally and internationally. His theatre design credits include work for; Milwaukee Rep, St Lois Rep, Studio Arena, Round House Theatre, Virginia Stage Co, Arden Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Theatre, PlayMakers Rep, The Clarence Brown Theatre, Great River Shakespeare Festival, The Booking Office, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, and American Music Theatre Festival. He has designed concerts for Suzanne Vega, Dave Matthews, John Prine, They Might Be Giants, George Winston, The Kronos Quartet, Bobby McFerrin, The Roches and Stephane Grappelli. His design in the dance field includes works by Eric Hawkings, David Dorfman, Dan Wagner, Lucas Hoving, Todd Rosenlieb, Nina Wiener, Hannah Kahn, Rachel Lampert, Bebe Miller, Beth Corning, Stephen Koester, Doug Varone, and Smith and Shapiro.Kenton served three years as the Lighting Supervisor for the Guthrie Theatre’s national touring program and four years as the Associate Artistic Director of the Virginia Stage Co.  As an educator, he has taught master classes at more than 40 Universities, served on the faculty at the Penn State, and was Chair/Artistic Director of Interlochen Arts Camps’ Department of Theater. Kenton currently runs the Masters Program in Entertainment Lighting Design at University of Tennessee in Knoxville and is Artistic Director of Creative Event Horizons.

 

 

Contact Information

Kenton Yeager
Assistant Professor, Lighting Designer/Consultant
102 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-2207
E-mail: kyeager2@utk.edu