Gage Williams

Professor
Head of PADP
Set Design and Production Design for Theatre, Film and Television.

gage.williams@theatre.utah.edu

In addition to teaching courses in set design, scenography, and production design for film/video for the Department of Theatre, Gage is the Resident Set Designer for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, Idaho. Gage's regional theatre and opera scenic design credits include Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Pioneer Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Childsplay, and Utah Opera. For television he has art directed productions for ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, HBO, SHOWTIME, ESPN, DISNEY, VH-1, and MTV.

Gage received a CableACE Award for Art Direction on the SHOWTIME film Mastergate, and his set designs for Anne of Green Gables at Childsplay in Arizona, and Hamlet at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival were selected for the US design exhibit at the 1999 and 2003 Prague Quadrennial Stage Design Exposition in the Czech Republic. Gage holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University. He is a member of United Scenic Artist Local–829, the American Academy of Television Arts and Science, and USITT.

At the University of Utah Gage, has designed both sets and costumes for the Babcock and Lab Theatres, and for both the Classical Greek Theatre Tour and Salt Lake Shakespeare. In 2000 he was awarded a University of Utah John R. Park Teaching Fellowship, too develop a new design course in production design for film and television. Gage’s set design students have received numerous awards at the American College Theatre Festival, including recognition at both the regional and national festivals.

Most recently Gage was the Assistant Set designer on the Tony Award winner and Broadway premiere of Def Poetry Jam, and the art director on Star Search 2003 for CBS.