Biography

Todd Mion
Department: Dance
Title: Lecturer in Dance (2000)
Degree: A.A, Harford Community College
Office: SRC
Email: todd.mion@goucher.edu
Website: http://www.goucher.edu/dance

Todd Mion has been a lighting designer in the Baltimore area for nineteen years. Much of that time was spent as the Technical Director for the Chesapeake Theatre at Harford Community College where from 1990 to 2000 he worked with such notable touring companies as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, St. Petersburg Ballet, Philadanco and Pilobolus. In his capacity as Technical Director at HCC he helped to organize the completion of the William H. Amoss Performing Arts Center and it’s May 2000 grand opening production of Sleeping Beauty performed by the Universal Ballet of Korea. His experience with dance and dance theatre is extensive, having designed scenery and lighting for numerous productions including The Nutcracker, Snow White, and Alice in Wonderland. In 1992, by special permission of Maurice Sendak, Todd directed and designed a dance adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are for the Harford Dance Theatre. He has written several original scripts and some music for children’s dance theatre productions. He also designs for theatre, having lit Lynn Redgrave and Stacy Keach in benefit performances for the Preservation Association for Tudor Hall, Phyllis Diller live at Quacker’s Comedy Club, and productions of The Glass Menagerie, Moon Over Buffalo and Night Watch for area theatres. More recently, as an Artistic Associate of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival Todd designed the critically acclaimed original production A Dickens of a Carol, about which the City Paper said “Excellent lighting design by Todd Mion lends a hand, offering different schemes for different characters that not only distinguish but actually provide clues to each character’s nature”. Todd formerly taught and designed for the dance department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where he designed concerts for Troika Ranch and The Phoenix Dance Company. Todd has been designing for Goucher’s dance department since the fall of 2000 and has enjoyed working with a variety of students, faculty, and guest artists.