Jim Trenberth

Jim Trenberth, ISU Theatre’s Resident Lighting Designer and Production Manager, received his MFA in Theatre Design from Ohio University. Jim joined the ISU Theatre faculty in 1993. Since that time he has designed over two hundred productions with ISU and other theatres including The Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, Wildspace Dance Company of Milwaukee, Sunset Theatre in Milwaukee, Central College, Drake University, StageWest and The Des Moines Metro Opera.

Production Member Credits

Cast

Hamlet (1996-1997) - Lighting Designer

Creative Team

Iowa Odyssey (or How We Got to Here) (2018-2019) - Lighting Coordinator
Sense and Sensibility (2018-2019) - Production Manager
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (2018-2019) - Scenic Designer
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (2018-2019) - Lighting Designer
This Is Not a Pipe Dream (2018-2019) - Lighting Designer
Our Town (2017-2018) - Lighting Designer
Oklahoma! (2017-2018) - Lighting Designer
Iphigenia (2017-2018) - Sound Designer
A Christmas Carol (2017-2018) - Lighting/Sound Designer
The Children's Hour (2017-2018) - Sound Designer
Out of the Fire: The Banned Books Monologues (2017-2018) - Lighting/Sound Designer
The Tempest (2016-2017) - Lighting Designer
The Tempest (2016-2017) - Sound Designer
Little Women (2016-2017) - Lighting Designer
The Importance of Being Earnest (2016-2017) - Lighting Designer
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (2016-2017) - Lighting/Sound Designer
Cabaret (2016-2017) - Lighting Designer
The Birds (2015-2016) - Scenic Designer
The Birds (2015-2016) - Lighting Designer
The Secret Garden (2015-2016) - Lighting Designer
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2015-2016) - Lighting Designer
Love and Honor: Iowa in the Civil War 2015 (2014-2015) - Lighting Designer
A Christmas Carol (2014-2015) - Lighting Designer
Spring Awakening (2014-2015) - Lighting Designer
My Grandparents in the War (2013-2014) - Scenic Director
My Grandparents in the War (2013-2014) - Lighting Designer
My Grandparents in the War (2013-2014) - Production Design
Amadeus (2013-2014) - Lighting Designer
The Seagull (2013-2014) - Lighting Designer
Fiddler on the Roof (2012-2013) - Lighting Designer
The Three Musketeers (2012-2013) - Lighting Designer
Alice in Wonderland (2012-2013) - Lighting Designer
Hedda Gabler (2011-2012) - Lighting Designer
Hedda Gabler (2011-2012) - Box Office Supervisor
Rent (2011-2012) - Production Manager
Rent (2011-2012) - Box Office Supervisor
To Kill a Mockingbird (2011-2012) - Lighting Designer
To Kill a Mockingbird (2011-2012) - Box Office Supervisor
Chekhov Short Stories (2011-2012) - Box Office Supervisor
A Christmas Carol (2011-2012) - Lighting Designer
A Christmas Carol (2011-2012) - Box Office Supervisor
Love's Labor's Lost (2011-2012) - Lighting Designer
Love's Labor's Lost (2011-2012) - Box Office Supervisor
Kiss Me, Kate (2010-2011) - Lighting Designer
Kiss Me, Kate (2010-2011) - Production Manager
Kiss Me, Kate (2010-2011) - Box Office Supervisor
The Miracle Worker (2010-2011) - Lighting Designer
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2010-2011) - Lighting Designer
The Arabian Nights (2010-2011) - Lighting Designer
Guys and Dolls (2009-2010) - Production Manager
The Importance of Being Earnest (2009-2010) - Lighting Designer
Twelfth Night (2009-2010) - Lighting Designer
Sweeney Todd (2009-2010) - Lighting Designer
The History Boys (2009-2010) - Lighting Designer
Gypsy (2008-2009) - Lighting Designer
Gypsy (2008-2009) - Production Manager
Gypsy (2008-2009) - Scenic Artists
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (2008-2009) - Scenic Designer
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (2008-2009) - Lighting Designer
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (2008-2009) - Sound Designer
Fifth of July (2008-2009) - Lighting Designer
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2007-2008) - Lighting Designer
Love and Honor: Iowa in the Civil War (2007-2008) - Lighting Designer
The Boys Next Door (2007-2008) - Lighting Designer
Quilters (2007-2008) - Lighting Designer
We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (2007-2008) - Lighting Design
The Music Man (2006-2007) - Lighting Designer
Intimate Apparel (2006-2007) - Lighting Design
Arcadia (2006-2007) - Sound Design
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2006-2007) - Lighting Designer
The Marriage of Figaro (2006-2007) - Lighting Designer
Our Town (2006-2007) - Lighting Designer
The Rivals (2005-2006) - Lighting Designer
The Pavilion (2005-2006) - Lighting Designer
How I Learned to Drive (2005-2006) - Lighting Designer
A Christmas Carol (2005-2006) - Lighting Designer
James and the Giant Peach (2005-2006) - Lighting Designer
The Secret Garden (2004-2005) - Lighting Designer
The Diary of Anne Frank (2004-2005) - Lighting Designer
Talking With (2004-2005) - Director
Dearly Departed (2004-2005) - Lighting Designer
True West (2004-2005) - Lighting Designer
Glengarry Glen Ross (2003-2004) - Scenic & Lighting Designer
Barjche (2003-2004) - Choreographer
Barjche (2003-2004) - Lighting Design
Ruddigore (2003-2004) - Lighting Designer
Proof (2003-2004) - Director
Brigadoon (2002-2003) - Lighting Designer
I Never Sang for My Father (2002-2003) - Lighting Designer
Barjche (2002-2003) - Lighting Designer
Stained Glass (2002-2003) - Lighting Designer
Lend Me a Tenor (2001-2002) - Scenic/Lighting Designer
The Laramie Project (2002-2003) - Lighting Designer
Grease (2001-2002) - Lighting Design
Grease (2001-2002) - Sound Design
Los Vendidos (2001-2002) - Scenic Designer
Barjche (2001-2002) - Lighting Designer
Heroes Among Us (2001-2002) - Lighting Designer
Oklahoma! (2000-2001) - Production Manager
Twelfth Night (2000-2001) - Lighting Design
I've Got Something to Say Too (2000-2001) - Lighting Designer
Into the Woods (1999-2000) - Sound Engineer
Shakespeare’s Women (1999-2000) - Lighting Designer
Shakespeare’s Women (1999-2000) - Scenic Designer
The Good Times Are Killing Me (1999-2000) - Lighting Design
Anything Goes (1998-1999) - Lighting Designer
A Little Night Music (1998-1999) - Lighting Designer
A Poke in the Eye (1998-1999) - Scenic Design
Macbeth (1998-1999) - Scenic Design
T-Bone n Weasel (1997-1998) - Lighting Designer
The Voice of the Prairie (1997-1998) - Director
Fortinbras (1996-1997) - Lighting Designer
The Medea Myth (1996-1997) - Lighting Designer
The Marriage of Figaro (1995-1996) - Lighting Designer
The Importance of Being Earnest (1995-1996) - Lighting Designer
The Importance of Being Earnest (1995-1996) - Scenic Designer
Equus (1995-1996) - Lighting Designer
A Christmas Carol (1995-1996) - Lighting Designer
Rumors (1993-1994) - Lighting Designer
A Christmas Carol (1993-1994) - Lighting Designer
The Grapes of Wrath (1993-1994) - Lighting Designer
Moliere: The Black Cross (1993-1994) - Lighting Designer
The Skinflint (1993-1994) - Lighting Designer