Clyde Sheets

Clyde Sheets is the Instructor of Design & Production at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen,

Michigan. He has designed works for Theatre, Ballet, Opera, and Contemporary Dance over the past 20

years. At Interlochen, Clyde has designed lighting for the Theater, Dance and Music departments. Show

credits include designing sets and lights for Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Directed by Gulshirin

Dubash and lighting a collaborative performance of all Interlochen arts disciplines featuring the Grammy

Award winning ensemble 8th Blackbird. In 2014 Clyde designed The Missing Generation for San

Francisco’s Sean Dorsey Dance Company, which was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Company

Performance Award for their show at Dance Mission Theater. Clyde taught dance lighting /collaborative

process at Mills College in Oakland California and was the Production Manager for the Theater Arts at San

Francisco State University, where he earned an MFA in Design. Clyde received Isadora Duncan Dance

Awards for Deborah Slater’s Hotel of Memories at CounterPulse in S.F. and Company awards for Lizz

Roman and Dancers and Sean Dorsey Dance and a Bay Area Critics Design Team award for

Metamorphosis at Aurora Theater in Berkeley CA.