{"id":5374,"date":"2024-05-10T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:47:48","slug":"introducing-courtney-smith-associate-professor-of-design-technology-and-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/2024\/05\/10\/introducing-courtney-smith-associate-professor-of-design-technology-and-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Courtney Smith, Associate Professor of Design, Technology, and Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Theater and Dance is thrilled to announce that Courtney Smith will be joining us as Associate Professor of Design, Technology, and Management beginning in the 24-25 academic year! He will be offering courses theater technology and design, as well as serving as the Production Manager for the department&#8217;s performance season. Welcome, Courtney! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/05\/Headshot_2024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5375 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/05\/Headshot_2024.webp 614w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/05\/Headshot_2024-320x400.webp 320w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/05\/Headshot_2024-502x628.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>COURTNEY SMITH<\/strong>&nbsp;is a lighting, digital media designer, and production manager&nbsp;whose work spans many genre &amp; media including live theater, dance, tv, film, and events. Courtney\u2019s work has been seen in theaters from coast to coast and internationally including:&nbsp;(Off-Broadway) A.R.T.\/NY, Atlantic Theatre Stage 2, The Bushwick Starr, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York City Opera, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Cedar Lake Dance, Marvel Repertory Theatre,&nbsp;(International)&nbsp;Southwark Playhouse; UK&nbsp;(Regional)&nbsp;Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, MT;&nbsp;Mount Baker Repertory Theatre, WA; Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, MT; Coeur d&#8217;Alene Summer Theatre, ID; Idaho Repertory Theatre, ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtney\u2019s designs have received several Meritorious Achievement Awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Additionally, his work received a \u201cDistinguished Achievement Award in Design\u201d from the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of Courtney\u2019s notable projects include work for Victoria\u2019s Secret, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, and window display design &amp; fabricator for Saks 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtney is a member of United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) and has an MFA in design &amp; technology from the University of Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-4cd5f3c2-7fff-84bb-387a-dd0b9b288482\"><div><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Theater and Dance is thrilled to announce that Courtney&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1736,"featured_media":5394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}