Assistant Professor, Live Design and Production
Bio
Josafath Reynoso Calvillo is an internationally acclaimed scenic designer and scenographer whose practice spans more than 25 years across Off-Broadway, LORT regional theatre, opera and international stages. Born and trained in Mexico City, his work is grounded in a transnational perspective that merges architectural precision, cultural depth and spatial poetry.
Reynoso is the recipient of the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize (OPERA America, 2022), the Gold Medal for Scenic Design at World Stage Design 2017 (OISTAT) and the 2015 USITT Scenic Design Award. In April 2026, he was invited to serve on the jury for the United States' national submissions to the Prague Quadrennial 2027, the world's largest platform for scenography.
His designs have been seen at South Coast Repertory, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, American Players Theatre and Abingdon Theatre Company, among others. Internationally, he has designed in Argentina, Venezuela, Israel and Mexico.
Reynoso is the founder and editor of Skene (skene.pub), an international open-access publication for performance and design reaching 1.61 million readers across 95 countries and a co-founder of Red Escénica Migrante, a support network for Latin American and Spanish-speaking performing arts practitioners.
What do you enjoy most about being a part of the UT Theatre and Dance community?
The Department of Theatre and Dance gives me the rare opportunity to work at the intersection of rigorous graduate training, active professional practice and field-building scholarship. My students push my thinking, and my productions inform my teaching.
Areas of Expertise
Scenic Design, Scenography, Transnational Practice, Publishing & Infrastructure
Classes
Studio I / Design Concepts for the Stage, Scenic Design Studio I & II, Graduate Production Laboratory
Publications
Skene (skene.pub), Founder and Editor-in-Chief, 2025-present
Recent Works
Scenic Design for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Virginia Stage Company, 2026
Scenic Design for Luchadora!, Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA), 2026
Scenic Design for The Mountaintop, The Warehouse Theatre, 2026
Scenic Design for Chicago, Teatro del Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2025
Scenic Design for Anna in the Tropics, American Players Theatre, 2025
Scenic Design for Maybe Tomorrow, Abingdon Theatre Company, 2025
Josafath Reynoso Calvillo is an internationally acclaimed scenic designer and scenographer whose practice spans more than 25 years across Off-Broadway, LORT regional theatre, opera and international stages. Born and trained in Mexico City, his work is grounded in a transnational perspective that merges architectural precision, cultural depth and spatial poetry.
Reynoso is the recipient of the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize (OPERA America, 2022), the Gold Medal for Scenic Design at World Stage Design 2017 (OISTAT) and the 2015 USITT Scenic Design Award. In April 2026, he was invited to serve on the jury for the United States' national submissions to the Prague Quadrennial 2027, the world's largest platform for scenography.
His designs have been seen at South Coast Repertory, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, American Players Theatre and Abingdon Theatre Company, among others. Internationally, he has designed in Argentina, Venezuela, Israel and Mexico.
Reynoso is the founder and editor of Skene (skene.pub), an international open-access publication for performance and design reaching 1.61 million readers across 95 countries and a co-founder of Red Escénica Migrante, a support network for Latin American and Spanish-speaking performing arts practitioners.
What do you enjoy most about being a part of the UT Theatre and Dance community?
The Department of Theatre and Dance gives me the rare opportunity to work at the intersection of rigorous graduate training, active professional practice and field-building scholarship. My students push my thinking, and my productions inform my teaching.
Scenic Design, Scenography, Transnational Practice, Publishing & Infrastructure
Studio I / Design Concepts for the Stage, Scenic Design Studio I & II, Graduate Production Laboratory
Skene (skene.pub), Founder and Editor-in-Chief, 2025-present
Scenic Design for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Virginia Stage Company, 2026
Scenic Design for Luchadora!, Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA), 2026
Scenic Design for The Mountaintop, The Warehouse Theatre, 2026
Scenic Design for Chicago, Teatro del Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2025
Scenic Design for Anna in the Tropics, American Players Theatre, 2025
Scenic Design for Maybe Tomorrow, Abingdon Theatre Company, 2025