David Flaten taught at Pomona College for a decade and at the University of La Verne for 35 years, where he is an Emeritus Professor of theatre. A theater designer and director with special interests in developing new projects and working in found spaces, Flaten received his BA (with architecture emphasis) from St. Olaf College, an MA from the University of Minnesota (Guthrie Theatre McKnight Fellow), and a PhD from UC Santa Barbara, with dissertation on American designer Ming Cho Lee. He performed with the Dartmouth Summer Repertory Theatre, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and as resident artist at St. Cloud State University. He was a designer for Shakespeare Video, consulted on California Plaza in Los Angeles and was a partner in The Design Trust, lighting and special effects design. In Europe he designed a number of productions for the Croatian National Theatres at Zagreb and at Varazdan, the Split Summer Festival, the National Theatre of Slovenia, and directed and designed “A Little Night Music” for the Guildford School of Acting near London. For 25 years he has studied and practiced healing modalities with shamans and teachers in America and Peru, including teaching certification in Pranic Healing™ and ThetaHealing™.
