Barbara Anderson

Professor Emeritus

Professor Anderson taught costume design, construction and history and is co-author, with her husband Cletus, of the textbook “Costume Design,” second edition published by Harcourt Brace in 1998.

She designed and supervised costumes for productions at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, CLO’s Gallery of Heroes original musicals, the National Repertory Theatre, Yale School of Drama, McCarter Theatre, the Dartmouth Professional Theatre, Theatre-By-The-Sea and the Carnegie Mellon Theatre Company.

Her credits in film and television are also extensive. In feature films she was the costume designer for George Romero’s Creepshow, Day Of The Dead, Monkeyshines, Two Evil Eyes, the remake of Night Of The Living Dead, The Dark Half and associate designer on Knightriders. Her PBS costume design work included the American Playhouse film: The Silence At Bethany, the Emmy Award-winning Leatherstocking Tales, the 12-part Decades of Decision, the 5-part John Marshall series for the U.S. Supreme Court, the National Geographic Shakespeare series, productions for the Wonderworks and Once Upon a Classic series. She did specialty costumes for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, particularly his original operas. She also designed the costumes for the historical films Struggle To Survive and Dream of Empire for the city of St. Augustine, Florida. For a change of pace she has done industrials and company mascots.

She created historical costumes for the John Heinz Regional Historic Center, ranging from an Indian chief of the 18th century to steel workers in the 1980’s. Individual costumes created for the Heinz Center included such notables as Andrew Carnegie, H.J. Heinz and George Washington. She has participated in many panel discussions and portfolio reviews at USITT conventions where she and her husband were invited to present a retrospective of their work in 1997. She has also been on the accrediting team for the Hong Kong Academy School of Theatre Arts. Professor Anderson has received the Ryan Award for excellence in teaching in the University and the Hornbostel Award for excellence in teaching in the College of Fine arts.

Professor Anderson received her BFA degree from Drake University and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

She passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on Monday, March 18, 2024.

Don Wadsworth

Professor Emeritus

Don Wadsworth taught the voice and speech techniques for more than twenty years in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. He has directed main stage productions, led the New York and Los Angeles showcases in highly successful showings and created a course called The Business of Acting for the fourth year actors. During his tenure he lead the Acting and Music Theater option of nearly one hundred students and twenty faculty members.

Professionally, Don has coached the voice work for actors on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in feature films, television productions, in regional theater and for video games.

He coached the dialects for the Broadway musical, The Pirate Queen as well as a dozen world premiere productions including the Stephen Flaherty/Lynne Ahrens musical The Glorious Ones as well as many original productions including The Compleat Female Stage Beauty (in which he also played the role of Samuel Pepys). He was the dialect coach for Outsiders, a Sony Pictures Television production. (He also plays a part in it.) He coached CMU alums Matt Bomer and Josh Gad for various TV and film productions. He covered the voice work for the PBS mini series, The War that Made America and served as the dialect coach for Adventureland for Miramax Films, as well as The Road with Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, Warrior starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte for Lionsgate Films. Recently he coached an actor for the CBS show, FBI. Don has coached such Oscar-nominated actors as Bob Hoskins, Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Tom Hulce, Dianne Ladd and Danny Aiello. He has coached numerous dialects for landmark regional theater productions including Australian for Marshall Mason’s production The Sum of Us, New England for Robert Ackerman’s Our Town, Welsh for the StageWest production of Night Must Fall and South African for a national tour of Master Harold and the Boys. He has served as a voice and dialect coach for Actor’s Theater of Louisville, The Chautauqua Theater Company, The Pittsburgh Public Theater, The City Theater, Civic Light Opera, The Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Barrington Stage in Massachusetts.

As an actor Don has been featured in the PBS television film Clarence Darrow with Kevin Spacey and Breathing Lessons, a Hallmark Television film. He has performed in many dramas and musicals including Fame, Cabaret, the national tour of Camelot playing Merlyn to Stacy Keach’s King Arthur. A veteran of more than twenty Shakespeare productions, he has played a wide variety of roles including Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Fool in King Lear.

He studied with Edith Skinner, the Speech and Dialects coach for the American Conservatory Theater, Cicely Berry, the Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Patsy Rodenberg, the Voice Director of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Don appears in the films The Chair with Sandra Oh (for Netflix), Smart People with Dennis Quaid.

For Carnegie Mellon, Don directed mainstage productions of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, London Cuckolds, The Playboy of the Western World and The Learned Ladies.

He is a member of Actor’s Equity, SAG-AFTRA. Don’s voice can be heard on hundreds of regional and national radio and television commercials. He was named Best Actor for the Air Awards for his work in broadcast. Don is the solo voice for Watchword Production recording of the New Testament available world-wide on DVD and was a voice actor for the video game, FALLOUT 76.

Cindy Limauro

Emeritus University Professor of Lighting Design

Cindy Limauro designs lighting for theater, opera, dance, and architecture. She is a Design Partner in C & C Lighting and University Professor of Lighting Design, the highest designation a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon, given for distinguished international recognition and contributions to education and artistic creativity.

Cindy is a member of United Scenic Artists (USA), International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and was named a Fellow of the Institute by USITT for Outstanding Contribution to the Theatre.

Lighting designs include the 2021 world film premiere of The Copper Queen for Arizona Opera, the 2019 world premiere of Ashes & Snow for Pittsburgh Opera which also premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and received a Knight of Illumination Award nomination, the world premieres of Dracula Il Musical and Nunsense in Rome, and Pasatieri’s The Three Sisters for Opera Columbus. Other productions with Pittsburgh Opera include The Barber of Seville, Il Trovatore, Ariodante, Cosi fan Tutti, Hansel and Gretel, Marriage of Figaro, The Rake’s Progress, Aida, Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Falstaff, La Boheme, Samson & Dalila, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Fidelio, Carmen, and Lucia di Lammermoor. Other professional companies include Baltimore Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Maryland Ballet, Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre, Barter Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, Kinetic Theatre, and City Theatre.

Award winning architectural lighting projects designed with her partner in C & C Lighting, Christopher Popowich, include the Hunt Library and the Randy Pausch Memorial Bridge at Carnegie Mellon, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Dinosaurs and The Chariot of Aurora at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Other projects include the lighting for the Koppers Building and lighting for the Gulf Tower Weather Beacon in Pittsburgh which changes colors with different weather conditions and has special holiday light shows throughout the year.

Professor Limauro’s design work has been displayed in two international exhibits: the 2007 Prague Quadrennial and World Stage Design in Toronto in 2005. In 2015 she was featured in the April issue of Mondo Arc magazine, profiling her professional designs and teaching. Her lighting design work is published in the 2013 edition of Scene Design and Stage Lighting by R. Craig Wolf and Dick Block, the 2011 edition of Stage Lighting: Fundamentals and Applications by Richard Dunham, June 2010 issue of Lighting and Sound America, March 2006 issue of Stage Directions Magazine in an article titled “5 Remarkable Women in Theatre,” the 2000 edition of Lighting the Stage by Willard Bellman and the January 2001 issue of Lighting Dimensions Magazine.

In 2007, Professor Limauro received the Henry van de Velde Award for Architectural Education in Antwerp for her contribution to interdisciplinary design education. In 2011 Professor Limauro was invited to China to speak at an International Symposium on Lighting Design. She served for two years as the Artistic Leader of the Prague Quadrennial Scenofest 2011 and was the US representative on the Education Commission of OISTAT, the premiere international organization of designers, technicians, and architects from 2005-2010, traveling to Helsinki, Vancouver, London, and Moscow.