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James Ogden

James V. Ogden is a scenic designer and visual artist. He received his MFA in Theatrical Design from The University of Texas at Austin in 2014 where he designed Our Country’s Good and The Scarlet Letter in the University of Texas Austin main stage season, and Slip River for The Cohen New Works Festival, winner of the Austin Critics Table Award for Best Production Comedy. He is a proud member of Oracle Productions in Chicago, where he designed a number of shows including most recently Circle Machine, a new work, and The America Play. He is currently Assistant Professor of Theatrical Design and Production at Wesleyan College in Macon, GA.

Not Just a Chair
Essay

Not Just a Chair

Considering Design Choices

18 February 2017

Professor James Ogden explores what it means to put a chair on stage, considering how design informs character choices.