William Byrnes:  

William (Bill) Byrnes grew up in Buffalo and attended Hutch-Tech from 1961 to 1964. After graduating he said farewell to Buffalo and headed off to the University of New Mexico to study architecture. He discovered his interests were elsewhere and switched to being an English major. He was lucky to get a job as a stagehand while at UNM in a new concert hall that opened in the fall of 1965. That job helped him pay his way through school and led to a new career track in production management and lighting design. After graduating from UNM in 1970 he was accepted to UCLA's School of Theatre, Film and Television. He completed his MFA in 1972 and took a job as a lectured and Technical Director in the theatre and dance dept at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH where he stayed for 22 years. He left Oberlin in 1994 to become the Assoc. Dean in the School of Theatre at Florida State University. He also ran the masters degree theatre management program while at FSU. On 2004 he was appointed Dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, UT. In 2009 he became the Associate Provost at SUU. He is an adjunct professor in the MFA/MA Arts Administration program at SUU where teaches grad...Expand for more