Ken Cole

Associate Professor of the Practice, Theatre

Technical Director of Theatre
Resident Lighting Designer Southold Ballet

Specialties

Design and Production

Research Interests

Technical Design, Special Effects, Robots in Film, CAD for the Stage

Biography

C. Kenneth Cole (Technical Director) has worked professionally for the Santa Fe Opera, the Ashlawn-Highland Summer Festival, the Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Southold Dance Theatre, and South Bend Symphony Orchestra. He taught at Southeast Missouri State University and Indiana University-South Bend prior to joining Notre Dame in the fall of 2003, where he teaches classes in theatre technology, stage lighting, special effects, computer drafting and design for the theatre. Ken has been the technical director for the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival twelve seasons out of the last fourteen.