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Palm Beach Dramaworks Names

Anne Mundell Resident Scenic Designer

Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) is delighted to see what’s next.” new challenges. “When I was teaching, I was part of an
announce that Anne Mundell, an award-winning scenic “We’re thrilled that Anne accepted our invitation,” said amazing community of people with incredible ideas,” she
designer and distinguished professor emeritus, has been PBD Producing Artistic Director William Hayes. “She is a said. “That’s one of the reasons I was thrilled when Bill
named the company’s new resident scenic designer, pleasure to work with, and has a wealth of experience and asked me about this job. I’m looking forward to working
effective immediately. a rich imagination. She’s also very forward-thinking and with another brilliant artistic community.”
Mundell made her PBD has an invigorating approach to scenic design. She simply Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit
debut in 2017 with Tom has so much to offer PBD.” theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the
Stoppard’s Arcadia, and Mundell, who grew up in and around Washington, heart of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the
subsequently designed the D.C., did her undergraduate work at Kenyon College in award-winning company produces five mainstage shows
sets for Peter Shaffer’s Ohio, and received a master of fine arts in scenic design and offers a wide variety of programs for students at
E quus in 2018, a nd from Brandeis University. She went to Pittsburgh to work the theatre and in schools. Committed to fostering the
Tennessee Williams’ A at Pittsburgh Public Theater just after grad school; her future of theatre, PBD has become a hub for playwrights
Streetcar Named Desire plan was to remain there for two years and then head to in Florida and around the country to nurture their work
in 2019. This season, she New York. “That didn’t work out, because I kept finding through initiatives including The Dramaworkshop and
is designing the world interesting things to do in Pittsburgh,” she said. the Perlberg Festival of New Plays. PBD is a member
premieres of Jenny Connell One day, a theatre colleague who also taught at Carnegie of Theatre Communications Group, Florida Professional
Davis’ The Messenger and Christopher Demos-Brown’s Mellon University asked Mundell to substitute for him in Theatres Association, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach
The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, as well as Arthur a class. She had no desire to teach, but she agreed to do it. County, and NNPN. www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.
Miller’s seminal Death of a Salesman. She is scheduled “I was terrible,” she said. “I told the students everything
to do at least two shows a year at PBD. I knew about a particular topic, and I was exhausted. I
“I’m very excited to have this opportunity,” said thought, ‘Oh, it’s the end of the class, I wonder if there’s
Mundell. “Everybody made me feel so welcome from the time for questions.’ Then I looked at the clock and only Wanted
first time I worked here, and I love the family atmosphere. 10 minutes had passed. But they kept asking me back.”
I just retired from my professor job at Carnegie Mellon, She served briefly as the interim head of the School of
where I’ve been for 30-plus years, and it’s nice to have Drama, spent a decade as coordinator of design, and was
another artistic home. And Dramaworks is such a good fit. associate professor of scene design from 1988 until her People are vandalizing
I really enjoy what the company does – you know, ‘theatre retirement. Throughout her career in education, Mundell golf courses after play
to think about.’ That’s the kind of work I love to do. I feel continued her design work in theatres around Pittsburgh hours. Sand traps, greens
like we’re at a point in history where artists have to bear and various parts of the country, including Pittsburgh
witness and tell stories that matter in ways that matter. Public Theater, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Pittsburgh City and fairways are being
That’s something that Dramaworks does. And everyone Theatre, Utah Musical Theatre, Carnegie Museum of Art, damaged. If you see
here is willing to take risks with ideas, which is always Quantum Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light
fun for me. I come from a poetic, gestural tradition and Opera, St. Michael’s Playhouse, Tennessee Repertory anyone on courses after
like to explore the world of the play in a way that isn’t Theatre, Black Hills Playhouse, and Players Theatre hours, please call POA
necessarily reproducing the actual physical space that the Columbus.
story takes place, like a living room, for instance. I’m “Teaching and design became a feedback loop,” she Security at 627-1600 or
also very interested in what theatre is going to be as we said. “I would hear myself say something and think, Resort Security, 627-2000.
move into a new generation of artists who think and tell ‘I better go practice what I preach.’ And students are Thank you.
stories in an aggregate way instead of a linear way, which phenomenal teachers.”
is very different from how I grew up. I’m fascinated to Mundell took early retirement in order to seek out

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