About Michelle A. Bisbee Books
Michelle A. Bisbee is the Associate Professor of Scenic Design, Properties, and Scenic Art at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She holds an MFA in Scenic Design from the University of Arizona and a BFA in Technical Theatre from Kent State University. Michelle has cultivated a strong passion and skills in all areas of scenic design, taking particular interest in model building (both digital and analogue), scenic painting, and properties design. She has worked for companies such as Cirque du Soleil (Las Vegas, NV), the Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, UT), and as staff Assistant Properties and Painter for University Productions at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). She has taught at Kent State University (Kent, OH), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD), and Trinity University (San Antonio, TX). Her recent credits as Scenic Designer include Hawai'i Opera Theatre (Honolulu, HI), Lyric Repertory Company (Logan, UT), Mānoa Valley Theatre (Honolulu, HI), and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.