Dick Block
Associate Head of School Teaching Professor of Design Carnegie Mellon University
Biography
Areas of Expertise
Industry Expertise
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Dick is also active with USITT and both regionally and nationally with the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, having served as the first National Design Chair. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Medallion for Distinguished Service. Dick received his MFA from Northwestern University.
Credits
Other design credits include over a dozen productions at The Human Race in Ohio, Feydeau’s Silly Goose in Cairo, and Amadeus and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Dick is co-author of “Scene Design and Stage Lighting (9th edition).”
Theater Productions
He also worked on such Broadway productions as Evita, 42nd St., Barnum, and Cats. Dick has been active locally with projects designed at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. Additional regional credits include work at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass, Center Stage in Baltimore, and the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
Career
Before joining Carnegie Mellon, Dick had a freelance career based in New York City where design credits include Conrack for AMAS (nominated for an Audelco Award), Fascinating Rhythms for Columbia Artists (also toured), Much Ado About Nothing for Equity Library Theatre and two pieces for Theatreworks USA as well as a new play, Wilson.
