Faculty Connections
Faculty Connections

About this site

Faculty Connections is an aggregation of UNC Charlotte faculty profiles.

Full-time faculty who want to update their profile information, see:
Connection Update

UNC Charlotte faculty and staff can log in with their NinerNET user accounts.
Log In

Colleges & Departments

  • ►Belk College of Business
    • ►Business Info Systems/Operations
    • ►Economics
    • ►Finance
    • ►Management
    • ►Marketing
    • ►Turner School of Accountancy
  • ▼College of Arts + Architecture
    • ►Art & Art History
    • ►Dance
    • ►Music
    • ►Performing Arts Services
    • ►School of Architecture
    • ▼Theatre
      • Allison Amidei
      • Andrew Hartley
      • Beth Murray
      • Bruce Auerbach
      • Carlos Cruz Casas
      • Chris Berry
      • David Fillmore
      • Jay Morong
      • Kaja Dunn
      • Laura Waringer
      • Lynne Conner
      • Margarette Joyner
      • Mark Pizzato
      • Robin Witt
      • Ronald McClelland
      • Tom Burch
    • Brook Muller
  • ►College of Computing & Informatics
    • ►Bioinformatics and Genomics
    • ►Bioinformatics Research Center
    • ►Computer Science
    • ►Software & Information Systems
  • ►College of Education
    • ►Counseling
    • ►Ctr For STEM Education
    • ►Educational Leadership
    • ►Middle Grades Secondary & K-12
    • ►Reading & Elementary ED
    • ►School & Community Partnerships
    • ►Special Ed & Child Dev
  • ►College of Health & Human Services
    • ►Appl Phys Hlth & Clin Sci
    • ►Kinesiology
    • ►Public Health Sciences
    • ►School of Nursing
    • ►School of Social Work
  • ►College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
    • ►Africana Studies
    • ►Anthropology
    • ►Biological Sciences
    • ►Chemistry
    • ►Communication Studies
    • ►Criminal Justice and Criminology
    • ►English
    • ►Geography and Earth Sciences
    • ►Global Studies
    • ►History
    • ►Languages and Culture Studies
    • ►Mathematics and Statistics
    • ►Philosophy
    • ►Physics and Optical Science
    • ►Political Science and Public Administration
    • ►Psychological Science
    • ►Religious Studies
    • ►Sociology
    • ►Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
  • ►Lee College of Engineering
    • ►Civil and Environmental Engr
    • ►Electrical & Computer Engineering
    • ►Engineering Tech & Constr Mgmt
    • ►EPIC
    • ►Mech Engineering & Engineering Sci
    • ►Student Dev & Success
    • ►Systems Engin & Engin Management
  • ►School of Data Science (SDS)

Programs, Centers & Initiatives

  • ►Center for Applied Geographic Information Science
  • ►Metropolitan Studies
    • ►Urban Institute

Top Links

  • performing arts
  • art
  • visual arts
  • architecture
  • diversity
  • music
  • gender
  • culture
  • theatre
  • design
  • education
  • race
  • arts and community
  • arts education
  • dance
  • environment
  • robotics
  • health disparities
  • art history
  • machine learning
  • statistics
  • sexuality
  • rhetoric
  • composition
  • computer science
  • health
  • sustainability
  • ecology
  • evolution
  • vulnerable populations
  • literacy
  • mental health
  • urban design
  • collaboration
  • politics
  • biostatistics
  • popular culture
  • mathematical physics
  • teacher education
  • artificial intelligence
  • music education
  • ethics
  • social media
  • molecular biology
  • orchestra

Full-Text Search

Tom Burch

Theatre
history of design
immersive performance
interactive theatre
performance space
production
puppetry
scenic design
site-specific performance
stage production
theatre
visual storytelling
Related People
David Fillmore
Carlos Cruz Casas
Richard Moll
Margarette Joyner
Lynne Conner
Elizabeth Yoder
Matthew Fraiser
Dean Adams
Allison Amidei
Andrew Hartley
Rachel Watkins
Mark Pizzato
Gordon Olson
Beth Murray
Laura Waringer
Kaja Dunn
Jay Morong
Robin Witt
Bruce Auerbach
Chris Berry
Rachel Engstrom
Sequina DuBose
Benjamin Stickels
Ronald McClelland

Tom Burch is the Associate Professor of Scenic Design and the Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre. Before joining UNC Charlotte in the fall of 2014, he taught at Ithaca College (NY) and for several years in the Theatre and Performance Studies Program at the University of Chicago, as well as working as a freelance scenic designer based in Chicago. He holds a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of Kentucky, a Post- Graduate Diploma in Drama History from the University of Bristol, England (while on a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship), and an MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University where he specialized in Scenic Design.

Chicago area design credits include: SUCKER PUNCH (Victory Gardens Theatre), TALKING PICTURES, GAS FOR LESS, the Horton Foote Festival and THE HAIRY APE (Goodman); SPUNK and COMEDY OF ERRORS (Court Theatre); TEN CHIMNEYS, SOUVENIR, A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS,  and many others (Northlight); He’s been a frequent collaborator with The Hypocrites, having designed such shows as the 12-hour play cycle, ALL OUR TRAGIC, WOYZECK, FRANKENSTEIN, NO EXIT, THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, as well as innovative and immersive takes on the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas PIRATES OF PENZANCE, HMS PINAFORE and THE MIKADO, which have toured extensively across the US (Boston, Louisville, Chicago, San Francisco, DC).

Other Chicago area credits include shows at Chicago Shakespeare, Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, Light Opera Works, House, Lifeline, and Strawdog Theatres, Chicago Dramatists and many other “storefront” companies. His work in Chicago received 5 Jeff Award nominations (1 win), 3 After Dark Awards, and the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award.

In NYC, he designed the off-Broadway production of Craig Wright’s MISTAKES WERE MADE starring Michael Shannon (Barrow Street Theatre), The Hypocrites’ PIRATES OF PENZANCE (NYU-Skirball Center, NY Times Critic’s Pick), and JOURNEY TO OZ (Symphony Space). Regional credits include NIXON’S NIXON, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, TOM JONES and OH GASTRONOMY! (Actors Theatre of Louisville); THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS (Arizona Theatre Co, Cleveland Playhouse), the American premier of Jukka Linkola’s opera, ROCKLAND (Pine Mountain Music Festival), as well as shows at American Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Peninsula Players, Stage One, Childsplay (AZ), Alpine Theatre Project, and many others. Since arriving in Charlotte, he’s been active locally at Children’s Theatre of Charlotte designing world premieres of THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER, the musical and GRIMMZ FAIRY TALES, and is currently working on a toy theatre commission adapting Peter Reynolds classic children’s book, THE DOT. Elsewhere in North Carolina, he has recently designed THE WEIR for Burning Coal Theatre (Raleigh) and NO CHILD for Cape Fear Regional Theatre (Fayetteville).

He is an active member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 (the professional union for stage designers), US Institute for Theatre Technology, OISTAT (the International Association for Stage Designers and Technicians), and is joining the regional leadership team for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.

Research interests include design for non-traditional performance spaces, immersive and site-specific theatre, and contemporary puppetry.

See more on his faculty profile at coaa.uncc.edu >>

  • Alerts
  • Jobs
  • Make a Gift
  • Maps / Directions
  • Accessibility IconAccessibility
Follow UNC Charlotte
Facebook Blogger Twitter Flickr YouTube
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 · 704-687-UNCC (8622) © 2014 UNC Charlotte | All Rights Reserved | Terms of Use | Policy Statements | Contact Us
Skip to toolbar
  • Log In