John Coyne

John Coyne is the Director of Design in Theatre Projects Consultants’ (TPC) Connecticut office. John is a licensed architect and a scenery and costume designer. His work includes: auditorium concept design, planning and programming theatre buildings, site assessment, and feasibility studies.

Projects

  • Asia House Houston, TX
  • Bowie State University Fine and Performing Arts Center Bowie, MD
  • Collin County Performing Arts Center Collin County, TX
  • Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Dallas, TX
  • Goodspeed Musicals East Haddam, CT
  • Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas City, MO
  • New Brunswick Cultural Center Vision Masterplan Study New Brunswick, NJ
  • New World Symphony Miami Beach, FL
  • Phoenix Theatre Company Phoenix, AZ
  • Tallahassee Performing Arts Center Tallahassee, FL
  • Tempe Center for the Arts Tempe, AZ
  • Theatre for a New Audience New York, NY
  • University of Delaware Center for the Arts Newark, DE
  • Virginia Performing Arts Center Richmond, VA
  • Woolly Mammoth Theatre Washington, D.C.

Experience
Since 1994 John has been designing stage sets for a number of theatre and opera companies including New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Washington Opera, The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Center Stage, California Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., the Old Globe, Goodspeed Musicals, Yale University, and The Juilliard School.
          Prior to his career as a theatre designer, John worked at Gary Lee & Partners Architects & Interior Designers and as an architect for Holabird & Root and for James, Morris & Kutyla in Chicago. He has been Project Designer on a number of projects including a major corporate space for Leo Burnette in Chicago, a 210,000 sq foot School of Architecture building for the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and a television studio building. He also worked on the new Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.
          John’s teaching experience includes Master Level Design Studio, Computer Aided Design and Model Making and Drafting courses at Yale University; graduate level Architecture Design Studio at Illinois Institute of Technology; and Design Principles in the College of Architecture at Cornell University. He has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, University of Illinois – Chicago and The Chicago Art Institute.

Education
Professional Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell University
Master of Fine Arts (Design), Yale School of Drama, Yale University
          He attended the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, including the Rome Studies Program. Fellowships and awards include the Donald M. Oenslager Scholarship (Yale), John Dinkeloo Prize (American Academy in Rome), Peggy Guggenheim Fellowship (Venice) and the Arthur M. Gensler Scholarship (Cornell).