Rusty Cloyes joins the University of Texas Theatre and Dance faculty from the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where he was one of the Associate Production Managers. While with ART, Rusty was the Production Manager for the Institute of Advanced Theatre Training and for the Zero Arrow Theatre, ART's second space, giving him the opportunity to work with up and coming artists and exciting cutting edge companies. Prior to ART, Rusty served as the Assistant Production Manager at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, a historic 4500 seat presenting theatre, working with acts that ranged from The Phantom of the Opera to the Atlanta Ballet to Alanis Morrisette.
Before turning to Production Management, Rusty was a professional Stage Manager in Seattle for 10 years, starting with the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1991 and continuing with various Seattle companies including: the Seattle Children's Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, the Intiman Theatre, the Village Theatre, and the Seattle Shakespeare Company. During that time, he also toured nationally and internationally, holding the title of everything from properties master to audio engineer to technical director to tour manager, with a band of comedic jugglers called the The Flying Karamazov Brothers.
Rusty holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Technology from the University of Texas at Austin.
