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DEPARTMENT OF
THEATER AND DANCE

 

Faculty and Staff

 

Russ Borski
Associate Professor
M.F.A., Northwestern University
Scenic Design & Painting, Visual Text, Design Portfolio

Office: Eldred Hall
Phone: 216-368-5927
E-mail: rxb33@case.edu

Professor Borski has taught in the three major areas of design for the theater; scenic, lighting, and costumes. He has designed and directed regionally over the past twenty-five years from Anchorage Opera to Portland Stage to Dallas Theater Center to the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Originally from Chicago, Professor Borski is the receipient of seven Joseph Jefferson Awards for Excellence in Design, as well as an Addie Award in Art Direction and is a former Glennan Fellow at CWRU. He has been the resident designer at Cain Park since 1989 and an associate director at Dobama Theater for the past two years.

Locally, Professor Borski has created productions at the Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Porthouse, Ensemble Theater, Karamu Theater, Lyric Opera of Cleveland, Moving Spaces, Playhouse Square Foundation, The Ohio Ballet, Dancing Wheels, and the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory. He had designed for commercial television, industrials, music videos, and film, but finds his heart in the world of live theater.