Associate
Donald Guyton has over twenty-five years of experience working as a theatre professional. Prior to becoming a theatre consultant he worked as a freelance lighting designer and stage manager for opera, ballet, and modern dance. Mr. Guyton joined Auerbach Pollock Friedlander in early 2000, bringing eight years of theatre consulting and project management experience to the firm.
His current responsibilities at Auerbach Pollock Friedlander include project management and systems design for the Virginia Beach Performing Arts Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia; the stage machinery upgrades at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City; the renovation of the Portsmouth Music Hall, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and the new cabaret theatre at the Queens Theatre in the Park, in Flushing Meadows, New York.
His other projects include the University of Oklahoma, School of Music, Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center at Holmberg Hall; the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center; Emerson College, Tufte Performance and Production Center; Emerson College, Cutler Majestic Theatre renovation; and the new Regent University performing arts building in Virginia Beach.
Over the course of his career Mr. Guyton has contributed to projects ranging from college and university performance spaces to major facilities designed by world-class architectural firms. Before joining Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, Mr. Guyton was a project manager on the recent renovation of Radio City Music Hall in New York City. He also served as a project manager on the early design phases of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
His credits as a lighting designer and stage manager for dance and opera include the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, the Joyce Trisler Danscompany, the Universal Ballet of Seoul Korea, Ballet Hispanico and The Opera Company of Philadelphia. This experience, gained in major national and international venues, has provided him with a keen understanding of performance spaces and technical systems. Mr. Guyton continues to be active as a production lighting designer for opera and modern dance companies.
He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Opera and Musical Theatre Production from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music in 1983.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
United Scenic Artists Local #829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
Illuminating Engineering Society
