Daniel Michaelson, Costume Design/Mediation
With faculty member Susan Sgorbati, Michaelson created Bennington's mediation curriculum, and is a certified Mediation Trainer. He is codirector (with Sgorbati) of Quantum Leap, a program for truants and at-risk students in Bennington County; both have been named "Vermont Heroes" for their work. He is a mediator for the Vermont Department of Education, Bennington Small Claims Court, and multiparty disputes, and conducts workshops in Mediation and the Quantum Leap approach. Michaelson was Resident Costume Designer at The Juilliard School, and has created sets and costumes for theater, dance, and opera in regional theaters and off Broadway, including costumes for the acclaimed production of Spring Awakening, directed by Liviu Culei at the Public Theater in New York City. He designed for the American premieres of several operas, including The Goose of Cairo (Mozart) and L'Etoile (Chabrier). He has been on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and the City University of New York. BA, Queens College; Harvard Graduate School of Design; MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. He was Dean of Studies at Bennington from 1991-94 and has taught here since 1981.
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