Campbell Baird, Scenic & Costume Designer

This past season Campbell opened two new productions of The Nutcracker for Fort Worth Dallas Ballet and the North Carolina School of the Arts. His other productions of The Nutcracker return annually to Oregon and Connecticut, and Amahl and the Night Visitors returns seasonally to Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Recent productions include the highly acclaimed all new version of Peter Pan for the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company and the world premiere of Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Singing Child for the 1993 Spoleto, USA Festival in Charleston, S.C., and as designer/scenic supervisor for the Joffrey Ballet, including Billboards, Cotillon, Billy the Kid, and Empyrean Dances. He was principal assistant to the late Oliver Smith on many projects from redecorating the Shubert Organization's theatres to Jerome Robbins' Broadway and The Nutcracker for the Joffrey Ballet. He has assisted Desmond Heeley on a number of productions and has painted a lot of scenery for Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, the films Three Sovereigns for Sarah, and Malcolm X. He studied stage design at the North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) and NYU-Tisch School of the Arts (MFA), and has been a guest artist at U-T Austin, WMU-Kalamazoo, and U of I at Champaign-Urbana. He currently teaches Advanced Rendering, Scenic Painting, and theatre history ("Connections") at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts. He shares studio space and living quarters with John McKernon, author of Lightwright, and a pair of Pembroke Welsh Corgis named Dylan (after the late Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and resident of the nearby Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd Street in Manhattan) and Jenny.