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Rich Rose
Professor Emeritus
At UCLA Rich Rose teaches scenic design for the stage at the School of Theater, Film and Television where he is a Professor Emeritus. Prof. Rose is the author of books on computer-aided design, and drafting, and sketching for the stage published by Penguin / Random House.
As the resident scenic designer at the award-winning Back Alley Theater for several years, Rich designed numerous productions there for Artistic Directors Alan Miller and Laura Zucker including Jacques Brel is Alive and Well, Ringers, The Fox, In the Sweet Bye and Bye, Days and Nights Within, and Found a Peanut (DramaLogue and LA Weekly awards for scenic design).
Recent designs include Rabbit Hole at the Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre in Guangzhou, China; Lainie Kazan presents The Great American Songbook; the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts productions of Spring Awakening, Floyd Collins, (BroadwayWorld nomination best scenic design) and American Idiot (Broadway World nomination best scenic design, LA Stage Scene Award winner for Outstanding Scenic Design and Outstanding LA Scenic Designer for 2015-2016) the Mosaic Lizard Theater productions of Robin Hood and A Spider-Man Christmas; the national tours of In the Heat of the Night, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Mountaintop, Steel Magnolias, and SEVEN for LA Theater Works; at Actor’s Co-op, he designed The Baker’s Wife, Summer and Smoke, Our Town, A Man for All Seasons, A Body of Water, and Tornado; Memphis at AMDA (Hollywood); and Other Desert Cities, and Chalk at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
Rose is presently the staff scenic designer at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles. His credits there include Andy Warhol’s Tomato, American Hamlet, Stalled, The Bespoke Overcoat, The Price, and Fostered.
