Rew Tippin is...
...a theatre arts professional who has worked in many areas of the country and has an extensive knowledge of stage design, events, themed environments, and the equipment that makes it all work.
He holds a B.A in theatre from Stetson University where he also studied art, literature, and history. He apparently insists on using the Oxford comma.
Courteous, Kind, Professional.
Shimmy in the Swamp 2025
Spaceman
The Vote
Current Projects
Theatre at Monmouth Summer 2025 Season
Suite Surrender @Significant Productions (July 31)
Next To Normal @Significant Productions (September 26)
Exit, Pursued by Bear @FSU Conservatory (February 2026)
A Midsummer Night's Dream @FSU Conservatory (May 2026)
Shimmy in the Swamp 2025
For the 2025 edition of the SimmyBOOM bellydance showcase event Shimmy in the Swamp, I did classic side-based dance lighting with additional front and rear support. Always a pleasure to…
Spaceman
Spaceman was easily the most cues I’ve had in a show to date, over 300. We started recording voiceovers months ahead of rehearsals due to the script being packed with…
The Vote
The actual title of this play is The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote, an unwieldy heading that was but a taste of the complexities offered in the script. Director Joshian Morales gave me…
The Pirates of Penzance (2018)
This one requires a little explanation. It is, in fact, Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical play, but the director’s concept required that it be uprooted from 1880’s Penzance and moved, instead,…
Women Laughing Alone With Salad
This odd foray into internalized stereotypes and personal psychological hangups has a script which bounces from a park to a nightclub to the 1920’s to an upscale restaurant, so…
Northside Hollow
Northside Hollow is a play that takes place at the bottom of a mine shaft during and after a cave-in. The design team’s collective goal was immersion, and my…
Ideation
So, what are we going to do with the bodies? The age-old question is thoroughly explored with mounting paranoia in Aaron Loeb’s Ideation, whose conference room setting quickly becomes…
The Drowning Girls
An indistinct, dreamlike Edwardian bathroom is what I designed for Urbanite Theatre’s production of The Drowning Girls. The script itself is the story of the life of serial killer George…
Reborning
If you are unfamiliar with the reborning phenomenon, it can be more than a little disquieting. Ultra-realistic replicas of actual babies, made by hand by gifted artisans, available on the…
The Winter’s Tale (2015)
The Theater at Monmouth’s 2015 production of The Winter’s Tale was a joy to work on. The superlative performances of the cast as well as the design team made for…