Mark A. Halpin

Mark Halpin has designed over 50 shows for CCM, some favorite designs including The Wild Party, Fellow Travelers, Galileo Galilei and Turn of the Screw. Halpin has also designed scenery for Williamstown Theater Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, ETC, The Human Race Theatre, Stages St. Louis, Arizona Opera, Children's Theater of Cincinnati, Honolulu Theater for Youth and others. He made his Off-Broadway design debut in 2023 with AMT Theatre's Drama Desk Award-nominated Walking With Bubbles. Halpin has created scenery for numerous theme parks, zoos, cruise ships and corporate clients, including Universal Studios - Florida, LegoLand Windsor, Radisson and Princess Cruise Lines, Steven Spielberg's The Dive restaurant, and many others.

Fond of exploring far-ranging creative pursuits, Halpin has created word puzzles appearing in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and on NPR's Ask Me Another, and his original musical The Kid in the Dark was named Cincinnati's Best Alternative Production in 2007.

BFA : Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY,

MFA: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC,