Daniel Schindler

Daniel Schindler is a dedicated educator and designer who arrived at Whitman College in 2015 after successful tenures at Rocky Mountain College, Colorado State University and California State University, Chico. Schindler merges liberal arts education with professional training in design. He is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local #829 and has designed professionally at the Toledo Repertory Theatre, the Arvada Center in Denver, Colorado and the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts. Schindler has held leadership positions in the United State Institute of Theatre Technology and the American College Theatre Festival, where he served as Chair of Design, Technology, and Management for the American College Theatre Festival, Region 7.

Schindler is a Montana native and a research partner with Montana State University. He is currently working on a project collecting oral histories from the Virginia City Players, which can be seen at the MSU Digital Archives. He is also one of founding members of the Human Centered Design (HCD) concentration at Whitman. HCD embodies the sense of forward-thinking design collaboration in its approach to solving problems across disciplines that focuses on the humanity of design.