Donald Robert Fox joined The University of Toledo faculty in 2009 as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Lighting Design. He has worked in regional theatres such as: the Boarshead Theatre, Williamston Theatre, The Unseam’d Shakespeare Company, The Lyric Opera of Dallas, Keystone Repertory Company, The Albuquerque Little Theatre, Plowshares Theatre Company, The Jewish Ensemble Theatre and Tricklock Theatre Company and has designed or stage managed over 100 productions. Recently he was nominated for a Wilde Award, in Detroit, Michigan, for lighting design for his work with the Williamston Theatre.
He received the 2007 Alamo Theatre Arts Council Globe Award for Excellence in Scenic Design for Brigadoon, the 2005 award for Excellence in Lighting Design for As You Like It and for Excellence in Scenic Design for Far Away in San Antonio, Texas. He also received the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best of Theatre 1999 for the Lighting Design of Our Town and The Hudsucker Proxy. He received two Detroit Free Press Theatre Excellence Awards for Best production: in 1995 for The Thebans for Sound Design and in 1997 for East Texas Hot Links, for lighting Design. He holds a B.F.A. in Directing & Design from Baylor University and a M.F.A. in Design from Wayne State University. He is a member of United Scenic Artist Local 829, Actors’ Equity Association, the International Association of Lighting Designers and The United States Institute of Theatre Technology.