Contact Information
313A Creative Arts Center
Robert.Klingelhoefer@mail.wvu.edu
Phone: (304) 293-4841×3122
Robert Klingelhoefer
Assistant Professor of Scenic Design
Director, Design and Technology Program
USA 829
Robert Klingelhoefer brings to the program more than 25 years of experience as a professional designer.
He continues as the Resident Designer at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, PA, where he has designed more than 100 productions, including world premieres of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and a new musical version of A Christmas Carol, among others.
Klingelhoefer also designed the summer 2007 and 2008 seasons for the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, WV including, in a rep each season of 4 plays in 2 theatres, the world premieres of Lee Blessing’s Lonesome Hollow, and Richard Dresser’s A View of the Harbor.
He was previously Resident Designer at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York. For Cocteau Rep he designed the world premiere of the Eric Bentley-Darius Milhaud-Bertolt Brecht version of Mother Courage and Her Children, the New York premiere of Nobel poet Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, and numerous productions for company founder Eve Adamson. For Pan Asian Rep, in addition to their New York productions, his designs toured the U.S. and abroad, including the Festival of Experimental Theatre in Cairo, Egypt, and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Klingelhoefer’s work has been seen extensively in New York and regionally for companies including Capital Repertory Theatre, The Texas Shakespeare Festival, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, The Asolo Theatre Company, The National Playwright’s Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The Cricket Theatre, The New York State Theatre Institute, Childsplay, The Acting Company, and The Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger.
He has been an adjunct faculty member or guest artist at many academic institutions, including Elizabethtown College (PA), Washington College (MD), Dickinson College (PA), The University of Tennessee, Montclair State College (NJ) and The University of South Carolina.
He has been a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 since 1983.