Michael Reese is the resident Scenographer and Technical Director for Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre. Mike came to NWU in 2003 after teaching at Augustana College and Kansas State University. Michael teaches courses in Technical Theatre, Scenography, Scenographic Techniques, Software Tools for Theatre, Approaching Scenography, Theatre Appreciation, Scene Painting, Stagecraft and other design/technology related courses.

Michael has designed professionally for Utah Festival Opera Company, Theatre in the Park in Kansas City, Children’s Theatre Company of Sioux Falls, Emmy Gifford Children’s Theatre, The Carlson Center and Ohlone Summerfest. His scenic design work has been exhibited at the Kennedy Center as well as internationally at the Prague Quadrennale.

In addition to designing for the theatre, Michael collaborated with noted Czech scenographer Jaroslav Malina on an exhibit of a digital landscape of the American southwest. Images of the Southwest was installed at Kansas University, San Francisco State University, and DAMU in Prague. In 2000 Michael collaborated with Mark Reaney, founder of the Institute for Exploration of Virtual Reality (ieVR) at Kansas University, in creating virtual reality theatre art as part of the Virtual Reality Halloween at the Rialto hosted by the Internet II consortium.