Dec 15, 2020
Welcome to Alumni Month! A month of podcast episodes dedicated to our CFA Alums, detailing where they are now, how CFA helped them, and their own thoughts of the Arts.
Dani Lobello chats with Paul Dufresne, an alumni of the Pepperdine theatre program who graduated with a BA in scene design and went on to earn an MFA in scene design at Boston University. He is based in Los Angeles, though he has also worked internationally and across the United States for theaters such as the LA Opera, The Guthrie, The English National Opera, and the Gary Marshall theater, among others. A few of his credits include designing for Le nozze di Figaro, Angels in America Pt. 1 & 2, and Pelléas et Mélisande, and in 2016, he was awarded the USITT young designers’ national award for outstanding achievement in scenic design.
The two discuss Paul’s time at Pepperdine, both as a theatre student and an employee for the CFA, and they chat about Paul’s career and current projects. Paul relays what got him into theater and his journey in the arts, with special attention paid to his time in the Edinburgh program at Pepperdine and his experience with opera.
For more information about Paul Dufresne:
Website: www.pjdufresne.com
Instagram: @pjdufresne_design
More info about the Center for the Arts can be found: https://arts.pepperdine.edu/visit/digital-resources.htm
Music Composer: Jeremy Zerbe