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Jacob Welch

Chair and Professor of Theatre

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Bio

Jacob Welch is the Chair of Theatre and Dance for MSU Denver as well as a Tenured Full Professor of Theatre specializing in Lighting. Jacob is also an award winning Freelance Lighting Designer working throughout North America. Jacob made his Off-Broadway debut with his lighting design of Conviction at the 59E59 Theatre. Favorite lighting designs include 9 Parts of Desire, Time Stands Still, Collapse, and A House with No Walls with the Curious Theatre Company; The Syringa Tree with Alliance Stage; The Night Heron, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Caretaker, and Frankie and Johnny at the Claire De Lune with Pargaon Theatre Company; My Name is Rachel Corrie with Countdown to Zero; and Metamorphoses with Theatreworks. He received his MFA in Lighting Design from Western Illinois University.


Educational Biography
MFA in Lighting Design – Western Illinois University (5/99)
BA in Technical Theatre – Western Illinois University (5/97) – Magna cum Laude
AA in Theatre – Spoon River College (5/95)

Degree

MFA in Theatre: Lighting Design

Western Illinois University

BA in Theatrical Design

Western Illinois University

Other in Theatre

Spoon River College