Academics
John Paul Devlin
Associate Professor of Fine Arts: Theatre
BA Allegheny College; MA Syracuse University; MFA Syracuse University
McCarthy Arts Center 217
Phone: 802.654.2509
Box 161
E-mail: jdevlin@smcvt.edu
Areas of specialty
Scenic and lighting design and technical Direction
Courses taught
Theatre Lab: Scenery, Painting, Lighting, Sound I, II, and III, Stagecrafts, Scenic Design, Lighting Design, Chief Patterns I, Life In The Theatre, Drama and Culture
Professional affiliations
- United States Institute for Theatre Technology—national and regional membership
- Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Co-Chair for Design and Technology for Region One (New England)
- Artistic Associate of Vermont Stage
- Theatre Communications Group
Recent work
• Resident designer and Production Manager for Saint Michael’s Playhouse
• Lighting design for Pump Boys and Dinettes, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, July 2008
• Scenic design for Almost, Maine, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, July 2008
• Light Design for Moonlight and Magnolias, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, July 2008
• Scenic and Lighting designer for Closer Than Ever, Saint Michael's College, April, 2008
• Lighting design for Our Country’s Good, Champlain College, March 2008
• Scenic design for Three Days of Rain, Vermont Stage company, March, 2008
• Professional design respondent at KCACTF Region Three festival, January, 2008
• Scenic and Light design for The Laramie Project, Saint Michael’s College, November 2007
• Lighting design for Dance team concert, Saint Michael's College, November 2007
• Lighting Design for American Machine, and original script, Starry Night Productions, September 2007
• Scenic design for Moonlight and Magnolias, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, August 2007
• Light design for Broadway Bound, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, July 2007
• Light Design for Educating Rita, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, July 2007
• Light Design for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Vermont Stage, May, 2007
• Scenic and Lighting Design for The Importance of Being Earnest, Saint Michael's College, April, 2007
Brief bio
Professor Devlin is delighted be a member of the Saint Michael’s Community. He is a veteran of over 340 professional and academic productions over the last 24 years. Most recently he was the resident designer and production manager for the Saint Michael’s Playhouse summer season. He has also worked professionally as a stringer with the stagehands union, Local 18 in Milwaukee for six years and with Vermont Stage Company, Lost Nation Theatre, Northern Stage (White River Junction), Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, Black Hills Playhouse, Northern Stage Company (Milwaukee), Pine Mountain Music Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Syracuse Stage. Prior to coming to Saint Michael’s, John was the resident designer and technical director at Marquette University for seven years.
Favorite quote
“To use gifts less than well is to dishonor them and their Giver. There is no material or subject in Creation that in using, we are excused from using well; there is no work in which we are excused from being able and responsible artists.” - Wendell Berry from “Christianity and the Survival of Creation”