Jesse Dreikosen

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Jesse Dreikosen is currently Professor of Scenic Design and Director of the MFA Scenic Design Program in the School of Theatre at Florida State University. He received his MFA in scene design from Purdue University and a BFA in theatre design from Viterbo University. He was the resident scene designer at New Theatre in South Florida for many years. Favorite shows at New Theatre include Madagascar (Carbonell Nomination), For Better, Paradise, and The Sunken Living Room, which was remounted at Southern Repertory Theatre in New Orleans. He also designs around the country at such theatres as The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Contemporary American Theater Festival, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Montana Rep Theatre Company, Company of Fools, The Texas Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Mint Theater, Texas Repertory Theatre Company, The Red Fern Theatre, The Ohio Theatre, The Renaissance Theatre and The 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California. His work has been exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial in the Czech Republic several times. He also served as the Vice-Commissioner of Education in the Scene Design & Technologies Commission for The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) and is a Past National Chair of Design, Technology and Management for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). He has received numerous regional and national awards for his designs.

He has also worked outside of theatre as a visual and marketing consultant for GAP, Inc., where he helped layout and open new GAP stores in New York, Miami, and the Midwest. He was responsible for teaching the employees lighting, window displays, marketing placement and dressing mannequins. In his spare time, he has painted murals for private residences, interior designed for dental offices and graphic designed an array of different materials and displays.