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Joe Johnson
651-387-0367 joethomasjohnsondesign@gmail.com
SCENIC DESIGN
Production
The Glass Menagerie
Shrek the Musical
Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel
Madagascar Jr.
The Producers
Merrily We Roll Along
Alice by Heart
Cinderella
Finding Nemo Jr.
Inanimate
Selling Kabul
9-5 the Musical
Footloose
Suor Angelica/Schicchi
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Disney's Descendants
Extra Yarn
Newsies
Legally Blonde The Musical
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Marys Seacole
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Peerless
Spongebob The Musical
The Glass Menagerie
Legally Blonde the Musical
The Drowsy Chaperone
Beauty and the Beast
Les Miserables
Cinderella
Hairspray
Madagascar Jr.
Constellations
Noises Off
Almost Maine
The Complete Works (Abridged)
Fiddler on the Roof
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Director
Justin Lucero
J. Solomon
J. Solomon
Justin Lucero
Sandy Boren-Barrett
Jerry Davis
Andrew Smith
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Andrew Smith
Sandy Boren-Barrett
Jeremy Wechsler
Hamid Dehghani
Ryan DeLaCroix
Matt Williams
Richard Gammon
Justin Lucero
Sandy Boren-Barrett
Anthony Kayer
Bri Graham
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Steve Scott
Jerrell Henderson & Hannah Todd
Hamid Dehghani
Ji Won Jeon
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Alvin Chan
Chris Carter
Kajsa Jones
Amanda Hestwood
Kajsa Jones-Higgins
Kyle Schwartz
Erin Schwab
Jack Lambert
Simon Vanvactor-Lee
Kate Ufema
Jim Williams
Jenna Soleo-Shanks
Amanda Hestwood
Amanda Hestwood
Company/Year
Theater Latté Da/ upcoming 2026
Weehawken High School/upcoming 2026
Weehawken High School/ 2025
Lakes Area Music Festival/ 2025
Stages Theatre Co./ 2025
Burning Coal Theatre/ 2025
Open Door Theatre/ 2025
East Ridge High School/ 2024
Open Door Theatre/ 2024
Stages Theatre Co./ 2024
Theater Wit/ 2024
Northlight Theatre/ 2024
The Phipps/ 2023
McLeod Summer Playhouse/ 2023
Bay View Music Festival / 2023
BayView Music Festival /2023
Stages Theatre Co./ 2023
Lifeline Theatre/ 2023
Maple Grove High School/ 2022
East Ridge High School/ 2022
Madkap Productions/ 2022
The Griffin Theatre Co./ 2022
Wirtz Center, NU/ 2022
Wallis Collab Show, NU/ 2022
East Ridge High School/ 2021
Wirtz Center, NU/ 2020
Wirtz Center, NU/ 2020
East Ridge High school/ 2019
Ashland Productions/ 2019
East Ridge High school/ 2018
Ashland Productions/ 2018
Ashland Productions/ 2018
Ashland Productions/ 2018
Stage 2/ 2018
University of Minnesota-Duluth/ 2017
Paul Bunyan Playhouse/ 2017
University of Minnesota-Duluth/2017
East Ridge High School/ 2015
East Ridge High School/ 2012
ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGN
Production
Primary Trust
Huzzah! The Musical
Girls and Boys
Twisted Melodies
The DaVinci Code
Fallen Angels
A Winter's Tale
The Cave
Circus Quixote
Little Women
The Audience
English
Into the Woods/Midsummer
Dancing at Lughnasa
The Lehman Trilogy
A Case for the Existence of God
Billy Elliot
School of Rock
Designer
Sotirios Livaditis
Todd Rosenthal
Assoc. Sotirios Livaditis
Sotirios Livaditis
Sotirios Livaditis
Scott Penner
Scott Penner
Courtney O' Neil
Sotirios Livaditis
Courtney O' Neil
Sotirios Livaditis
Andrew Boyce
Courtney O' Neil
Courtney O'Neil
Courtney O'Neil
Sotirios Livaditis
Sotiros Livaditis
Michelle Lilly
Michelle Lilly
Company/Year
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis/2026
Old Globe Theatre/ 2025
Steep Theatre/ 2025
Northlight Theatre/2025
Drury Lane Theatre/ 2025
American Players Theatre/ 2025
American Players Theatre/ 2025
Red Orchid Theatre/ 2025
Lookingglass Theatre./ 2025
Northlight Theatre/ 2024
Drury Lane Theatre/ 2024
Goodman&Guthrie Theatres./ 2024
Idaho Shakespeare Festival/ 2024
American Players Theatre/ 2024
The Zach Theatre/ 2024
Steep Theatre / 2024
Paramount Theatre /2023
Paramount Theatre/ 2022
TEACHING
INTR
Intro to Set Design at Northwestern University/ 2021
Intro to Costume Design at Northwestern University/2021
HONORS AND AWARDS
Prague Quadrennial Common Design Project Online Exhibition for Karel ÄŒapek’s The White Plague, one of eight internationally selected projects, 2020
Kennedy Center American Theatre Festival Region V “Achievement in Scene Design” for Noises Off, 2018
Northern Boundary Conference USITT “Cover the Walls Scholarship Recipient” for Complete Works, 2017
USITT “Cover the Walls Scholarship Recipient” for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Tradigital Gallery, Selby Public Library, A Battle with The Forces of Evil, 2015
Illest of IlI Gallery, A Minotaur's Meditation, 2014
EDUCATION
Northwestern University
MFA in Scenic Design
University of Minnesota Duluth
BFA in Scenic Design
Ringling College of Art and Design
Studied Illustration and Fine Arts
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