About
Vince Mountain is a scenic designer for stage, film and television, and an Emeritus Professor of Theatre & Drama in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He began his association with the Prison Creative Arts Project in the fall of 2018 as a volunteer for the 24 th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners.
As a stage designer he has worked professionally for a range of theatres, including small experimental companies, regional theatres, opera companies, commercial theatres and television/film. Notable American stage companies include the Alley Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Florentine Opera, and Central City Opera.
Film and TV work includes credits as a set designer on ABC-TV's Detroit 1-8-7, Paramount Pictures feature film Transformers 4 and the 2017 Sony Pictures remake of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. As an Asst. Art Director he has worked on X-Men: The New Mutants by 20 th Century Fox, Ava by Voltage Pictures, the AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere, and most recently the second season of the Apple TV+ series Servant.
After receiving his MFA in Scene Design from UC-San Diego he was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Design Fellowship, and has served as an adjudicator for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers. He is an active member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. He was the Chair of the International Activities Committee for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) from 2017-2020, and the Associate Curator for the Prague Quadrennial 2019 USA National Exhibit.
