Roger Sherman

ROGER SHERMAN owes his thirty plus years in the theatre to Denise and Bruce Freestone and OpenStage Theatre, which sent him on an odyssey to Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and finally, Little Theatre of the Rockies. He has taught at the University of California-San Diego, Southern Utah University and the University of Northern Colorado. A high point for Roger was designing and building scenery for performance artist Eleanor Antin for both Whitney Museum installations and her full length video productions, Loves of a Ballerina, The Last Night of Rasputin and Man Without a World. Some set designs include Oklahoma! and The King and I for the Greeley Community Theatre Troupe; Tintypes, Enter Laughing, Look Homeward Angel and Peter Pan for UNC’s Little Theatre of the Rockies; Ladies of the Alamo for the North Coast Repertory Company and The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine for the San Jose Repertory, as well as the unit set used for five years at the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. He returned to OpenStage Theatre in 2009, designing sets for The One-Eyed Man Is King, The Rocky Horror Show and The Tempest. Longtime OpenStage patrons might remember his designs for The Lion in Winter, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Sleuth. Roger recently retired as the Technical Director at UNC and is currently an adjunct faculty member. His real education and joy has come from his wife, Mary Lucas, scenic artist at UNC, and his three children, Jessica, Evan and Eliot.