Bryon Winn, MFA, BA
Professor Winn is a professor of design and has served as the Director of Theatre for the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa since 2003. He has designed lighting, scenery, projections, and/or media for theatre, opera, and corporate events throughout the country. This includes over 300 productions and over 50 premieres of new plays. His theatre design work has been seen at Portland Stage Company, Trinity Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Florida Studio Theatre, Axis Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, Miranda Theatre Company, Utah Musical Theatre, Cornell College, Middlebury College, Riverside Theatre, and Iowa Summer Rep. His event design work has been seen in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson, Dallas, Omaha, Minneapolis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, Miami, and New York. This includes designing scenery and lighting in ballrooms, arenas, performing arts centers, and airplane hangars. He has also taught workshops on media servers and moving light programming in Seoul, South Korea.
At the University of Iowa, Bryon teaches courses in lighting and entertainment design. Including courses in lighting for the camera and concert design. Software and hardware used in his courses include ETC EOS, GrandMA, Disguise (d3), Pixera, Watchout, Pandoras Box, and Vectorworks. He has also developed virtual reality/motion capture projects with his colleagues Dan Fine, Alan MacVey, Joe Kearney, Emily Berkheimer, and Tyler Bell as part of the UIXR Studio.
Bryon is a recipient of a CLAS Collegiate Teaching Award.
- Design