Matthew Mitra, B.A., M.F.A.

Matthew Mitra
Production Manager/Technical Director, Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre
Student Enrichment Center, Q001
Penn State Harrisburg
777 West Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057

Matthew Mitra is the Production Manager/Technical Director for The Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre. He is also an adjunct faculty member under the Humanities department. He acts as the Production Designer/Technical Director for all the Humanities Productions. Before Penn State, he was a staff member at Grove City College in Grove City, PA. He worked for the Media Services Department as their full time Lighting Designer and as an adjunct faculty member in the theatre program. Matthew is currently serving as the resident Lighting Designer for Theatre Harrisburg under his newly formed business, Mitra Production Aesthetics, LLC.  He received his M.F.A. in Lighting Design at The University of Missouri-Kansas City in May 2014. Matthew is originally from Northern New Jersey and graduated in 2011 from Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania with his BA in Theatre: Production and Design.