Professional
Theater Experience - Set and Costume Design (selected productions)
2007
The Snow Maiden Projections
Premier Ballet Company, West Hartford, CT
2004
Sylvia Set design
New Harmony Theatre, New Harmony, IN
Director: Scott LeFeber
2003
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukralne Set design
New Harmony Theatre, New Harmony, IN
Director: Scott LeFeber
Midwives Set design
Clarence Brown Theatre, Tennessee
Director: Kay Long
2002
Private Lives Set design
New Harmony Theatre, New Harmony, IN
Director: Scott LeFeber
2001
Twelfth Night Set design
New Harmony Theatre, New Harmony, IN
Director: Scott LeFeber
Dance2 to the Second Power - Set Design.
Center for Fine Arts Theatre, Wesleyan University.
Choreographer Adair Landborn.
Appleseed
John - Set and contume design
Stage One: Professional Theater for Young Audiences
Director: Moses Goldberg
2000
The
Threepenny Opera - Set and costume design.
The Lyman Center for Performing Arts, New Haven, CT
Director: Mark Watts
The
Philadelphia Story - Set design.
The New Harmony Theatre, New Harmony, IN
Director: Scott LeFeber
Island
of the Blue Dolphins - Set and costume design
Stage One: Professional Theater for Young Audiences
Director: J. Daniel Herring
1999
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight - Set and costume design.
Stage One: Professional Theater for Young Audiences
Director: Moses Goldberg
You
Never Know, Cole Porter and Rowland Leigh - Set design.
The New Harmony Theatre, New Harmony, IN
Director: Scott LaFeber
1998-99
The
Snow Queen - Set and costume design.
The New Haven Ballet, Orchestra New England, New Haven, CT
Director and choreographer: Noble Barker
Composer: Susan Bingham
1998
Affection
- Set design.
Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, IL
Choreographer: Randy Duncan
Dinosaur - Set and costume design.
Stage One: Professional Theater for Young Audiences
Director: Kate Long
Death
of A Salesman - Set design.
The New Harmony Theatre, New Harmony, IN
Director: Scott LaFeber
1996
Othello - Set and costume design.
The Lyman Center for Performing Arts, New Haven, CT
Director: Mark Watts
Nutcracker:
The Musical - Set and costume design.
Seacoast Rep, Portsmouth, NH
Director: Thad Doyle
Blue
Bonnet - Set and costume design.
The Chancel Opera Company, New Haven, CT
Director: Phyllis Warfel
Composer: Susan
Bingham
1995-98
The
Nutcracker Set and costume design.
New Haven Ballet, New Haven, CT
Director and choreographer: Noble Barker
1995/96/98
Coming
Through - Set design.
American Place Theatre, New York, NY
Director: Wynn Handman
1995
The
Fall and Repentance of Mary and The Martyrdom of the Holy Virgins -
Set and costume design.
Voice and Vision at the Cloisters, New York, NY
Director: Marya Mazor
Rabbi
Nachmans Chair - Set and costume design.
The Chancel Opera Company, New Haven, CT
Director: Phyllis Warfel
Composer: Susan
Bingham
1994
Offerings - Set design.
American Place Theatre, New York, NY
Director: Wynn Handman
1993
First
Snow / Egorushka - Set and costume design.
Eugene ONeill Theatre Center / SoHo Rep, New York, NY
Directors: Elise Thoron and Alexei Tabachnikov
Musical
workshops for children - Set Design.
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, Waterford, CT
The
Emperor and the Nightingale The Chancel Opera Company, New Haven, CT
Director: Susan Bingham
Composer: Susan
Bingham
The
Little Match Girl The Chancel Opera Company, New Haven, CT
Director: Phyllis Warfel
Composer: Susan
Bingham
1992
The
Balcony - Set design.
Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT
Director Milos Miladovic
Folk
Tale Operas - Set design.
The Chancel Opera Company, New Haven, CT
Director: Phyllis Warfel
Composer: Susan
Bingham
1991
Charnel
House Cha Cha by Jack Harris-Bonham - Set and costume design.
Yale School of Drama Studio
Director: Sheldon
1990
Ivanov - Assistant to David Borovski, set designer.
Moscow Art Theatre / Yale Repertory Theatre New Haven, CT
Go
On - Set and costume design.
Yale Cabaret, New Haven, CT
Director: Anna Shapiro
Three
Sisters - Set design.
Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT
Director: Tim Vasen
Zing
Zing - Set and costume design.
Kazan Theater for Youth, Kazan, Russia
Director: Mikhail Kogan
1989
Snow
Near the Prison Set and costume design.
Yermolova Theatre, Moscow, Russia
Director: Andrei Jetinkin
Suddenly
Last Summer - Set and costume design.
Studio Theatre On the Baumanovsky, Moscow, Russia
Director: Mikhail Zonenstrahl.
The
Price - Set and costume design.
Vakhtangov Studio, Moscow, Russia
Director: Andrei Jetinkin
1988
Cock-a-doodle-do by A. Moskalenko - Set and costume design.
Theatre On the Malaya Bronnaya, Moscow. Director: Andrei Jitinkin
Eagles
- Little Falcons - Set and costume design.
Andreyev Studio, Moscow
Director: Natella Britaeva
The
Suicide - Set and costume design.
Moscow Art Theatre Studio, Moscow, Russia
Director: E. Rodomislenski
1984-85
The
Price by Arthur Miller (the first Soviet staging of Arthur Miller since1960s)
- Set and costume design.
Vakhtangov Studio Theatre, Moscow
Director: Andrei Jitinkin
Man
From the Stars - Set and costume design.
Vakhtangov Studio Theatre, Moscow
Director: Mikhail Zonenstrahl.
Woe
From Wit by Griboyedov - Set and costume design.
Moscow Art Theatre Studio, Moscow
Director: Alla Pokrovskaya
Film
1999
All
About George, Independent film. Production design
Director: Christopher Llewellyn Reed
1989
Animal
Farm - Production design
Gorky Cinema-Studio, Moscow, Russia
Director: Olga Grekova
(Unproduced)
New
England Food and Beverage Company, Guilford, CT
1998-99
Meadows
Music Theater, Hartford, CT
Various permanent art installations
1998
Beach
Street Waterfront Grille, West Haven, CT
1996
Oakdale
Theatre, Wallingford, CT
5,000 seat theater and its Room Number Five Special Event Room
1993
Berezka
International Foods, Boston, MA
Kaminsky
- Gourmet Foods, Newberry Street, Boston, MA
Connecticut
College Capital Campaign - Launch displays, New London, CT
Environmental
Art
2006
UCONN Husky Trail / Dog Juan , Various sites around CT
2003
World Trade Center Memorial Competition Entry, New York, NY
2002-2003
International
Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT
Installation: 500 Faces
1997
International
Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT
Installation: Four 24-foot puppet/sculptures to adorn New Haven Town Green
during annual festival celebrations.
Illustrations (selected)
2006
Sasha and Babushka by Vladimir Shpitalnik and Cornelia Evans
Soundprints
2005-2006
Yale
University Department of Psychology, various illustrations
2003
American Psychologist, cover for December issue
2001-2003
Yale
School of Medicine, various illustrations
1998
Yale
University/First USA Bank Visa Card (Woolsey Hall image)
Association
of Yale Alumni Website
1997
International
Festival of Arts and Ideas - poster, T-shirts
1995
International
Handbook of Personality and Intelligence
Plenum Press, New York and London
edited by Donald Saklofske
1993-94
Crocodile
Gene and His Friends by Eduard Uspensky
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. - Juvenile Division
The
Little Warranty People by Eduard Uspensky
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. - Juvenile Division
Uncle
Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat by Eduard Uspensky
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. - Juvenile Division
Fine
Art Exhibitions (selected)
2007
Artspace,
New Haven, CT "2007 New Haven City Wide Open Studios "
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA "Robert's Snow 2007"
Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT "Mini: Exhibition of Miniature Art"
Santa Barbara Central Library, Santa Barbara, CA "Set and costume design by Vladimir Shpitalnik"
Eli
Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT "13 Leonardo's Challenge"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "Connecticut Watercolor Society
67th Annual Exhibition"
Madison Art Cinemas,
Madison, CT " Vladimir Shpitalnik"
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT "Cultural Passages: Identity Made Visible"
2006
Cherry&Webb Gallery, Fall River, MA "Art of the story 2006. An exhibition of Children's Book Illustration"
Society
of Illustrators, New York, NY "17 Members Open Exhibition"
Artspace,
New Haven, CT "2006 New Haven City Wide Open Studios "
2005
Society
of Illustrators, New York, NY "The Art of the Story Board"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "Connecticut Watercolor Society
65th Annual Exhibition"
Child at Heart Gallery, Newburyport, MA "Robert's Snow"
Cherry&Webb Gallery, Fall River, MA "Art of the story. An exhibition of Children's Book Illustration"
2004
Kehler Liddell Gallerys, New Haven, CT "Group Show"
The Robert Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA "The Art of Illustration"
The
Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT "Arts Connecticut, 2004: Guilford Art
League 57nd Annual Juried Exhibition"
2003
Jewish
Community Center of Greater New Haven, Woodbridge, CT " Story Pictures: ASelection of Children's Book Illustrations"
The Robert Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA "Art of the Theater"
Artspace,
New Haven, CT "2003 New Haven City Wide Open Studios "
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "Connecticut Watercolor Society
63rd Annual Exhibition"
2002
Madison Art Cinemas,
Madison, CT " Vladimir Shpitalnik"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "The Portrait" Second Annual Juried Exhibition
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "New Haven Paint and Clay Club Annual Exhibition"
Artspace,
New Haven, CT "2002 Open Studios "
2001
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "Connecticut Watercolor Society
61st Annual Exhibition"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "New Haven Paint and Clay Club Annual Exhibition"
Western
Connecticut State University Ruth Haas Library, Danbury, CT "Connecticut
State University Art Faculty Exhibition"
1999
Duracell
Corporation, Bethel, CT "Paier College of Art Exhibition"
The
Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT "Arts Connecticut, 1999: Guilford Art
League 52nd Annual Juried Exhibition"
1998
Artspace,
New Haven, CT "Regional College Faculty Exhibition"
Artspace,
New Haven, CT "1998 Open Studios "
The
Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT "Arts Connecticut, 1998: Guilford Art
League 51st Annual Juried Exhibition"
Lyman
Center, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT "Faculty
Show"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, "New Haven Paint and Clay Club:
97th Annual Juried Art Exhibition"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, "New Haven Paint and Clay Club
Annual Exhibition"
1997-98
Society
of Illustrators, New York, NY "Our Own Show"
Eli
Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT "Leonardo's Challenge"
1996
Small
Space Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Facets," Individual show
International
Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT "Art on the Edge"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, "New Haven Paint and Clay Club
Annual Exhibition"
Green
Gallery, Guilford, CT, Group Show
The
Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT "The Virtual Self,"
Eli
Whitney Museum, New Haven, CT "One Thousand Voices of Design"
1995
Paul
Mellon Art Gallery, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT"Vladimir
Shpitalnik: Retrospective"
Connecticut
State University, Faculty Art Show
Society
of Illustrators, New York, NY "Our Own Show"
Jewish
Community Center Gallery, Woodbridge, CT Original artwork from Rabbi
Nachman's Chair
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, "17th Annual Calligraphy Exhibition"
Whitney
Grove Square,
New Haven, CT, "Original Artwork from the Nutcraker: An Exhibition
of Set and Costume Designs"
1994
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "The Visual Stage: Art In and Around
the Theater"
John
Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT "16th Annual Calligraphy Exhibition"
1992
Whitney
Grove Square and Sprague Hall, New Haven, CT
Fully operational, child-sized theater designed and built with Sergei Goryanski
Lincoln
Center Public Library for the Performing Arts Ming's Clambake, an exhibition
of set, costume, and lighting designs by the 1992 graduating classes of
America's leading theater training institutions. Curated by Ming Cho Lee
1991
Merwin's
Art Shop, New Haven, CT, "Summertime at Yale," watercolor
exhibition of Shpitalnik's Scenes of Yale.
1989
Theatre Designers at the First International Festival of Theatre Youth,
"Podium" Young Set Designers of Russia, Moscow
1998,
87
VTO
- Theatrical Union Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Theatre Designers Exhibition
Education
1992
Yale School of Drama, MFA in Design
1988
- 90
Moscow Art Theatre School, Scenic Design
1984
- 88
Moscow Art Theatre School, Technical Design program
1984
Zagorsk Matrioshka Factory, Artist practicum
1979
- 84
Abramtsevskoe Art School, Degree in Art and Ceramics
1983
Gjelle Ceramic Studio, Practicum
Professional
Associations
Founding member of Alliance Theatre Construction Consultants (Allince TCC).
United
Scenic Artists, ASSITEJ, Society of Illustrators, Arts Council of Greater
New Haven, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, Connecticut Watercolor Society
Society
of Childrens Book Writers & Illustrators
University
and Other Educational Appointments
1995
- present
Southern
Connecticut State University, Lecturer, Art Department
1996
- present
Paier
College of Art, Lecturer
2007
Sacred Heart University, Lecturer, Art Department
2003
Brooks School, Visiting Artist, Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Art
1995
University
of Michigan, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Theatre,
Honors
and Awards
Work included in permanent collection of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club
National
Endowment for the Arts, TCG Designer Fellowship, 1997
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, First Prize: First Great
Kinetic-cut Sculpture Race, 1999