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CAMPBELL BAIRD, SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGNER:

 Mr. Baird has designed numerous productions for both dramatic, ballet and musical theatre, including three national and two international productions of West Side Story, nine different productions of the Nutcracker and the recent Broadway premiere of One Mo’ Time, which garnered Mr. Baird numerous enthusiastic notices for his scenic design. In addition, Campbell Baird designed the original production of Sonya with the illustrious Julie Harris and the world premiere of Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera for children The Singing Child for Spoleto USA in 1994. Mr. Baird’s work can be seen all over the world having designed and worked in Korea, Japan, Italy, South America and at London’s revered, Covent Garden.

 Campbell Baird received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from North Carolina School of the Arts and his Master’s in Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he worked with legendary Broadway designer Oliver Smith, who designed many of the great musicals for Broadway including Rodgers and Hammerstein's, The Sound of Music and Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, Camelot, Brigadoon and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. Mr. Smith the winner of 8 Tony Awards, also designed the scenery for the Broadway productions of West Side Story, Hello Dolly and all of Neil Simon’s early plays. Campbell Baird later served as Oliver Smith’s principal assistant on numerous productions here and abroad for the remainder of that amazing career.

 Mr. Baird also worked very closely with British designer Desmond Heeley, who won Tony Awards for scene and costume design for the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as many designs for ballet and opera.

 Finally, in addition to designing, Mr. Baird has also utilized his creative talent as an artist to paint scenery for many important opera companies and theatre productions, including fifteen years with the Metropolitan Opera House. Currently he teaches at his alma mater in the Graduate Design Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.