Associate Professor
Scenic and Properties Design, Scenic Art
she/her/hers
mabisbee@hawaii.edu
Courses:
THEA/DNCE 240 Introduction to Stage Production
THEA 343D Scenic Painting
THEA 343E Props and Crafts
THEA/DNCE 353 Beginning Scenic Design
THEA 448 Drafting
THEA 499 Directed Work
THEA 641 Historic Costume and Decor
THEA 642 Drawing and Rendering for Performing Arts
THEA 650 Professional Development
THEA 652 Intermediate Scenic Design
THEA 653 Advanced Scenic Design
THEA 657 Seminar in Design
THEA 690 Graduate Theatre Workshop
THEA 695 Creative Projects
Michelle A. Bisbee holds an MFA in Scenic Design from the University of Arizona and a BFA in Technical Theatre from Kent State University. Michelle has cultivated strong passion and skills in all areas of scenic design taking particular interest in model building (both digital and analog), scenic painting, and properties design; including puppets.
Michelle has worked for companies such as Cirque du Soleil (Las Vegas, NV), the Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, UT), and as staff Assistant Properties and Painter for University Productions at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, HI). She has taught at Kent State University (Kent, OH), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD), and Trinity University (San Antonio, TX). Her recent credits as Scenic Designer include Hawai‘i Opera Theatre (Honolulu, HI), Lyric Repertory Company (Logan, UT), Mānoa Valley Theatre (Honolulu, HI), and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
She follows the revise and resubmit teaching pedagogy giving students agency over their learning styles and grades. This provides students with a better understanding of the content and provides them with a foundation to synthesize and implement the information.
Faculty-supplied personal websites and 3rd party links are for information only and do not indicate affiliation with or oversight by the University of Hawai’i.