Kevin Hines
Technical Directors in Theater use trade crafts and engineering to physically realize creative artistic goals. The fruits of our labor are tangible. In an increasingly virtual world, we make real things out of real stuff.
-Kevin Hines
Kevin’s teaching centers on the scientific and engineering principles underlying the practice of theatrical fabrication, along with utilization and adaptation of methods and materials found in both traditional and emerging trade crafts.
Kevin has been teaching Technical Direction and Technical Design at CMU for over 25 years. A graduate of Binghamton University and the Yale School of Drama, he has wide-ranging experience in educational, regional, and commercial theater. He maintains a freelance career as a Technical Designer and Detailer for the Broadway and national touring market, residential construction, and ionized air-handling system design for wastewater treatment facilities. He is a member of USITT, and the CMU representative to the Fusion Studio for Entertainment and Engineering at Purdue University. He is a tenor, a taurus, and an avid origamist.