Media Design

Media design at Lehigh sits at the frontier of performance and technology. Students work with projection, video, and interactive tools, discovering how digital content can expand the possibilities of live theatre and amplify story.

The program is led by Professor Joseph Amodei, an award-winning new media artist and designer whose work merges theatrical storytelling with immersive technology and social justice. Their research in VR, projection, and interactive performance shapes the classroom, where students gain both the technical skills of media design and the conceptual grounding to make digital work meaningful and collaborative.

In the Diamond and Black Box Theatres, media student designers integrate their work with scenic, lighting, and performance elements, creating productions that push traditional boundaries. They graduate with portfolios of realized projects, preparing them for graduate study, media-driven performance, or design careers in theatre and related fields.

At its heart, media design at Lehigh is about more than projection or screens. It is about inventing new dimensions for live performance—where pixels, presence, and story collide to create experiences that could not exist anywhere else.