Southern Utah University is a caring campus community where students come to explore their interests and prepare for meaningful careers and life experiences. With more than 145 undergraduate programs* and 18 graduate and certificate programs across six academic colleges, SUU proudly offers world-class, project-based learning opportunities where students gain professional experience before entering the job market.

Located in the world’s best backyard, SUU is the University of the Parks thanks to its close proximity to several outdoor recreational areas and its educational partnerships with the National Park Service. SUU’s safe, residential campus allows students - more than 10,000 - to create lifelong friendships along with once-in-a-lifetime outdoor adventures in conjunction with innovative academic endeavors.

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New Hampshire Drama Award/Lead Actor

Shakespeare’s R&J (director nomination)
Pinafore! (producer nomination)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (producer winner)

LA Ovation

LA Scenie Awards, Best Director

1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, National Co-Chair

North Carolina Pride PAC for Gay and Lesbian Equality, Executive Director

Southern Utah University's Juneteenth Celebration Committee

Derek Charles Livingston is the director of new play development and interim artistic director for the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival. In addition to fulfilling those two positions, he participated in the 2022 season by acting in the one-person show Thurgood, a production about the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Previously Livingston served as the managing artistic director for LA’s Celebration Theatre, program manager/production and new play producer for Playwrights Project, and festival artistic producer for Plays in Progress. 

Before the age of 30, Livingston built HIV prevention programs for people of color and for gay male communities; served as a case manager to homeless men in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction; been a re-education counselor to domestic violence perpetrators in a private agency and in the prison system; earned all his points to join Actor Equity, the professional union for stage actors; co-organized a contingent of participants for the Million Man March; co-produced a tribute to Bayard Rustin at the Kennedy Center;  been the executive director of a statewide LGBT political action committee; and served as a national co-chair of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation – one of the largest marches on Washington in US History. His picture is in the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture.  

Livingston earned a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts from Brown University and an MFA in filmmaking from UCLA’s School of Film and Television.

Production and Set Design

Film Production

Stage Management

Fund Development and Fundraising

Artistic Management

Play Production and Development

Playwriting

Theatre Direction

Utah Shakespeare Festival

To be or not to be at the Utah Shakespeare Festival?

Utah Shakespeare Festival opens fall with absorbing “Thurgood”

Utah Shakespeare Festival names interim artistic director

Utah Shakespeare Festival presents world-premiere musical 'Gold Mountain'

Summit on Belonging

Derek Livingston at SUU's Summit on Belonging

Director of New Play Development & Artistic Associate

Power of Place tells the story of five of Southern Utah University's Founders whose bright vision, dedication, and hard work shaped the University and transformed it into the place it is today.

Narrated by Ryan Paul, associate professor of history and director of A.P.E.X., the program features Native American Flute music provided by a member of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, and highlights William Wallace Flanigan, Fred C. Adams, Annie Spencer Milne, Roy L. Halversen, and Bessie Peck Dover. Their stories will be presented by Briget Eastep, executive director of Outdoor Pathways, Derek Livingston, interim artistic director for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alexa Lord, SUU women’s basketball, McKay Pollmann, SUU student body president, and Paige Raw, SUUSA Senate international representative.

Power of Place will be held on Thursday, September 22 at 11:30 a.m. in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Alumni Center.

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About SUU:
Southern Utah University is a caring campus community where students come to explore their interests and prepare for meaningful careers and life experiences. With more than 140 undergraduate programs* and 21 graduate and certificate programs across seven academic colleges, SUU proudly offers world-class, project-based learning opportunities where students gain professional experience before entering the job market.

Located in the world’s best backyard, SUU is the University of the Parks® thanks to its close proximity to several outdoor recreational areas and its educational partnerships with the National Park Service. SUU’s safe, residential campus allows students - more than 12,000 - to create lifelong friendships along with once-in-a-lifetime outdoor adventures in conjunction with innovative academic endeavors.

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Power of Place - Inauguration Academic Convocation 2022

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