Dirk Durossette has been designing scenery and teaching design, and drawing and rendering for the theater for the past 20 years in and around the Philadelphia region. Off-Broadway scene designs include: The Outgoing Tide and Any Given Monday. He has designed for Amaryllis Theater Company, Azuka Theater (Barrymore Nomination-Skin and Bone), Act II Playhouse (Any Given Monday-World Premier), Enchantment Theater Company (National Tour-Harold and the Purple Crayon), Theater Exile, 1812 Productions (First Day of School-Philadelphia Premier), Delaware Theatre Company, EgoPo Classic Theatre, Freedom Theater, Flashpoint Theater, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, InterAct Theater Company, Lantern Theater (Barrymore Nomination- Skylight), Luna Theater, Painted Bird Productions (A Few Small Repairs-World Premier), Theater Horizon, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater ,MumPuppetTheatre, Portland Opera (Maine), The Wilma Theater (Leaving- Associate Designer-American Premier), Temple Theaters, Temple Opera Theater, University of the Arts, Drexel University, Lawrence University (Wisconsin), Peabody Institute (Baltimore), West Chester University, Villanova University, The University of Memphis. He continues to design private commissions for weddings, special events, and lobby displays in and around greater Philadelphia.

For three seasons he served as Resident Scene designer for PlayPenn’s New Play Development Conference in Philadelphia where he consulted on the design aspects of new plays and collaborated with playwrights in a workshop setting. Additionally, his work has been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, American Theatre Magazine and the Da Vinci Art Alliance’s publication “Envisioning Shakespeare at 450.” He has taught theatrical design at The University of the Arts, Temple University, Ocean County College and Villanova University. He currently serves as a full-time faculty member in the Design/Tech program at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. MFA Scene Design from Temple University.

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