LIGHTING DESIGN

NYC work includes: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Dance Dance Revolution with Alex Timbers; Monstrosity, Lucy Thurber and 13P; Opus, Primary Stages; Speech and Debate, Roundabout; Eve Ensler's The Treatment at the Culture Project; Food Project with Lightbox, Drums of the Waves of the Horikawa with Theatre of a Two Headed Calf, Beauty on the Vine, Palace of the End, and Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven with Epic Theatre.

Regionally: ART in Cambridge(Elliot Norton Award for The Onion Cellar), Arden Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Bard Summerscape, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre (Ovation Nominee for Apollo) The Intiman, Playmakers Rep, Portland Center Stage,  The Boston Court, and Georgia Shakespeare Festival.  

Mr Townsend is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and a founding member of TENT. He is the 2006 USITT Rising Star Award winner and is a member of the Obie Award winning Theatre of a Two Headed Calf.

SET DESIGN

Scenic Design work includes:  Major Barbara with Two-Headed Calf created first at the University of Rochester International Theatre Program  and then recreated at LaMAMA.  Additional scenic design work includes design with Alec Duffy in Dysphoria and Top Ten People of the Millennium Sing Songs of Schubert,   Director Lear Debessonet for both Bone Portraits and St. Joan of the Stockyard, and Director Jen Harvey's Twelfth Night and Miss Julie. 

EDUCATION

Mr. Townsend holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he studied intensively with Penny Remsen and Miguel Romero.  His MFA is from California Institute for the Arts working with Christopher Akerlind, Chris Barreca, and Erik Ehn.  Additionally he has trained in Saratoga with the SITI company for their summer intensive as well as in Los Angeles.