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Gene Emerson Friedman is an American scenic designer, visual artist, and educator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Friedman currently teaches for UMKC Theatre, an academic department of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is known for his design work for Shakespeare companies and musical theatre.

Career Friedman won the 2001 Peggy Ezekiel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Arts by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology for his drafting work. Recent set design work includes Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and Much Ado about Nothing for the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in Kansas City, MO, Once on This Island for the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, MO, and The Music Man at Stages Theatre[2] in St. Louis, MO. In addition to his theatre design work, Friedman is a consultant to the J. Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum's exhibition "Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theatre and Opera".http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=15 His work is featured in "Scene Design and Stage Lighting"[3].[4]

Art Exhibitions Quetzalcoatl and the Tree of Life, Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery December 2, 2011