Ken White

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Dean's Office - Visual and Performing Arts

Email Address: kdwhite@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.334.3644

Education

Biography

Ken White joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2013 from Louisiana State University, where he was a tenured professor in lighting and a regular lighting designer for the University’s Equity company Swine Palace. In the summer of 2012, he was the Lighting Designer and Sound/Video Engineer for a worldwide premier of Dante at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Prior to joining the faculty in Louisiana, he taught at East Carolina University, where he was a tenured professor and the area coordinator of both the Design and Production and Stage Management concentrations, as well as the Production Manager and Lighting Designer for the ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, and his designs have been seen in theatres across the southeast, including The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Arrowrock Lyceum Theatre, The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Birmingham Summerfest, Cumberland County Playhouse, The Dogwood Dell Amphitheater, Tallahassee Little Theatre, and Cape Fear Regional Theatre. In 1981, he received the Richmond News Leader’s Phoebe Award for Best Lighting Design for a Play for his lighting design of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. He was the lighting designer for the Regional’s Competition of the movie Pitch Perfect, where he can also be seen as the lighting operator. Ken joined the Dean’s Office as the Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in 2019, and was selected as the Associate Dean the following Spring.

Subjects Taught

• Lighting Design and Technology
• Stage Management
• Computer Aided Drafting

Areas of Responsibility

• Academic issues
• Student concerns
• Curriculum review
• Student recruitment
• Student engagement
• Policies
• Faculty Handbook