Phone:

812-855-3092

Email:

mfsmith@iu.edu

Office:

IU Opera & Ballet Theater / Musical Arts Center

A Bloomington-based designer and scenic artist, Mark Frederic Smith is director of scenic painting and properties for IU Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater, where he has contributed to more than 200 productions during the past 29 years. Design work for Jacobs Opera and Ballet Theater includes The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, La Finta Giardiniera, The Coronation of Poppea, Hansel and Gretel, Bernstein’s Mass, An American Dream, Sweeney Todd, Trouble in Tahiti, Turn of the Screw, the world premiere of Shulamit Ran’s Anne Frank, and the premiere of A Star on the Rise: La Bayadere . . . Reimagined. His design for Florencia en el Amazonas was featured in San Diego Opera’s 2017-18 season. Smith earned a Master of Fine Arts in Scenic Design from the IU Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance and was a student of former Jacobs faculty C. David Higgins and Robert O’Hearn.