WVU Division of Theatre and Dance

Robert Klingelhoefer
Assistant Professor of Scenic Design

Robert Klingelhoefer is a professional designer with more than 25 years of experience. Since 1988 he has been the Resident Designer at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pa., where he has designed more than 60 productions, including world premieres of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and a new musical version of A Christmas Carol, among others.

He was previously Resident Designer at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York. For Cocteau Rep he designed the world premiere of the Eric Bentley-Darius Milhaud – Bertolt Brecht version of Mother Courage and Her Children, the New York premiere of Nobel poet Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, and numerous productions for company founder Eve Adamson. For Pan Asian Rep, in addition to their New York productions, his designs toured the U.S. and abroad, including the Festival of Experimental Theatre in Cairo, Egypt, and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Klingelhoefer’s work has been seen extensively in New York and regionally for companies including The Texas Shakespeare Festival, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, The Asolo Theatre Company, The National Playwright’s Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The Cricket Theatre, The New York State Theatre Institute, Childsplay, The Acting Company, and The Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger.

He has been an adjunct faculty member or guest artist at many academic institutions, including Elizabethtown College (Pa.), Washington College (Md.), Dickinson College (Pa.), The University of Tennessee, Montclair State College (N.J.) and The University of South Carolina. He has been a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 since 1983.