Jody LS Tidwell

Technical Director, Scene Shop Supervisor, Lighting Designer

Department/Affiliation: Theatre & Dance
Phone: 330-263-2040
Office Address: Scene Shop, Freedlander Theatre
Email: jTidwell@wooster.edu

B.A., Wartburg College Waverly, Iowa
M.F.A. Lighting/Sound Design & Technology, University of South Dakota-Vermillion

Jody's lighting designs at The C.O.W. include Equus, Marat Sade, The Glass Menagerie, Iphigenia, Comedy of Errors, A Flea in Her Ear and Spring Dance Concerts.
Her lighting at the Black Hills Playhouse included Sherlock Holmes-the Final Adventure, A Chorus Line and while at USD included The Diviners, Macbeth, Faith Healer, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
Jody was the winner of the 2005 region 5 ACTF David L. Thayer Lighting competition in Fargo, ND and in 2006 was at the Guthrie Theatre as a lighting intern.
She has worked as a carpenter for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Old Creamery Theatre and Missouri Repertory Theatre.
She was Technical Director at Indiana State University, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and during her graduate work at USD.
Jody is a member of IATSE local 631 in Orlando, Florida.