Department of Performing Arts

Tobin Clark, B.F.A.
Production Manager/Associate Producer
Areas include set, light, sound, and projection design, stage and production management.
Email: cdt9@georgetown.edu

Tobin Clark has been designing and teaching theater for 20 years. Toby first spent 13 years designing in Alaska. Subsequently, he joined the Georgetown staff after having spent two years as the Resident Designer and Technical Director for St. Albans School and the National Cathedral School. He has been seen on the Georgetown campus in the last year as the Light and Sound Designer for the Arena Stage/Georgetown workshop collaboration 33 Variations with Moises Kaufman. He was the image/video designer for Derek Goldman’s workshop of Right as Rain.  Off campus, he has designed lights for Perseverance Theater’s Macbeth at the National Museum of the American Indian, and at St. Albans, he designed Set and Lights for various productions, including Secret Garden, Dining Room, Measure for Measure, Jungle Book, Grease, Much Ado About Nothing and The Variety Show.

Robbie Hayes, B.A.
Technical Director, Lecturer
Areas of teaching include lighting, set and production design, engineering and construction.
Email: rlh24@georgetown.edu

Robbie Hayes serves as the Technical Director for the Theater and Performance Studies Program and the Davis Performing Arts Center.  He has been the Lighting Designer for The Race, Wisconsin Death Trip, Trees and Ghosts, Big Love, Eurydice, Gospel at Colonus, The Skin of our Teeth, Dream Boy, Right as Rain, Sleep, and Dr. Korczak and the Children. He has been the Scenic Designer for Anansi, Stuff Happens, and Dr. Korczak and the Children. DC Design credits include scenery for References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, This Storm is What we call Progress, and The Skin of our Teeth  (Rorschach Theatre where he is a company member), As American As, Neglect, and Getting Out with Journeymen Theater, Scenes from the Big Picture and lighting for The Drunkard (Solas Nua), and Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake) with Catalyst.  Chicago area designs include work with Light Opera Works, Northlight Theatre, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Porchlight Music Theatre, Teatro Vista, A Red Orchid Theatre, Empire Theatre, and many others.

Ted Parker
Lecturer; Technical Adviser to Co-curricular Theater Groups
Areas of teaching include theatrical design, technical theater, theater production.
Email: tsp2@georgetown.edu

Ted Parker has been working in the performing arts in Washington for over 30 years. He has worked at Arena Stage, the Washington Theatre Club, the Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, The Washington Opera and The Washington Performing Arts Society. He has designed scenery and lighting for over 40 local educational, community and professional productions. He co-founded The Actors’ Center, was active in the formation of the Cultural Alliance, and served on the boards of several arts institutions, including Library Theater and Arlington Dance Theatre. He was Project Director for the creation of TicketPlace for the Cultural Alliance, and has taught at American University and several local high schools, and consulted with numerous Washington arts groups. He served for two years on the Multi-media Panel of the DC Commission on the Arts. He lives in a restored Victorian house in Chevy Chase with his wife of 40 years. They have three daughters and 7 grandchildren.

Debra Kim Sivigny, M.F.A.
Artist-in-Residence
Areas of teaching include costumes and properties construction and design, costume history and material culture.
Email: debsivigny@gmail.com

Debra Kim Sivigny (Costume and Props Artisan) has designed for various DC/Baltimore companies, most notably: The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy of Classical Acting, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Theater J, Studio Theatre Secondstage, Olney Theatre, National Players, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Imagination Stage.  She has also designed for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.  Most recent projects include: Twelfth Night for Middlebury College where she worked as a guest artist (fall 08) and Maria/Stuart with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.  She will be designing costumes for both Pentecost and Lysistrata in the spring of '09.  She is a company member of Rorschach Theatre. She has an MFA in design from the University of Maryland and a BA from Middlebury College.  She is also a proud member of USA Local 829.