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Shields first discovered her interest in set design in high school. When she arrived at Harvard, she bonded with the theater community when she responded to a couple of requests for technical assistance. After getting to know the people she was working with and becoming more involved in building sets for Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) productions, Shields says she found her niche at Harvard...
Harvard’s theatrical productions are unique, in that they rarely seek to make a profit. Instead, they challenge their audiences to think critically about the design, organization, and larger themes of these plays...
...says co-director Alissa E. Schapiro ’10, “is to really show the visibility and importance of visual arts on campus. It’s not just in VES, and it’s not just at the Graduate School of Design. Harvard students are incredibly talented. There are ceramicists at the graduate school who would have no other venue to show their work. [The show] is a way of bringing together divergent communities that have a central focus on visual...
Zellmann-Rohrer came to Harvard with very little experience in lighting design. “I had done some design in high school on a very small scale,” he explains, “but I never had any formal lessons. During my freshman spring I just started assisting on all kinds of shows and learned that way.” But according to Beth G. Shields ’10, former president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (and Zellmann-Rohrer’s girlfriend), Zellmann-Rohrer’s knack for lighting design has never been...
Zellmann-Rohrer, a Classics concentrator in Mather House, says he plans to pursue a PhD in Classics after graduation and does not foresee a future in lighting design. “I don’t think I’m committed to do it professionally,” he says, “but I still intend to see as much theater as possible. I’ll definitely miss it.” And the Harvard theater community is sure to reciprocate the feeling, says Shields. “Whenever Michael isn’t doing the lighting...