About
Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Bryant is a graduate of the University of North Texas where he studied technical theatre and design. Bryant’s interest in the world of theatre began as a teenager working at Six Flags Over Texas. While in the park’s entertainment department, he carried roles behind the scenes and as a performer. During college, Bryant was the resident lighting designer for Theatre Coppell, a community arts group.
Bryant’s first professional experience came in 2014 as the lighting designer for Full Gallop (WaterTower Theatre). Since then, Bryant has worked with WaterTower Theatre on several occasions. Credits include The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, The Odd Couple, Sexy Laundry and The Explorers Club. Other professional design credits include The Birds, Psycho Beach Party and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Theatre Three). In 2019, Bryant made his New York City design debut with the Off-Broadway production of Self-Injurious Behavior at Urban Stages.
Currently, he is the manager of production at the Coppell Arts Center and saw the facility through construction and grand opening. Bryant and his team manage the center’s produced events that include touring theatricals and notable artists, such as Kristin Chenoweth and The Commodores. During his free time, Bryant is an avid theme park enthusiast. To date, he has visited over fifty parks across the United States and ridden nearly 300 roller coasters.
Press
WaterTower Theatre
“Rayven Harris’s Sound Design is an array of music from the catalog of the 60s and the supportive lighting was created by Bryant Yeager. Both designers worked in solid harmony to enhance the show.”
Stacy Upton, The Column
The Odd Couple
Theatre Three
“The sunny and wonderfully executed lighting designed by Bryant Yeager is interspersed with laughter inducing light cues that tie in with Chicklet's psychotic breaks.”
Mark-Brian Sonna, The Column
Psycho Beach Party
WaterTower Theatre
“Bryant Yeager’s lighting design softly carries on the imaginative aura the play has developed. Several incandescent bulbs hang from the ceiling, dimly illuminated or individually bright for emphasis. A floor spot over the actors gently widens and blends into a gobo of soft purples and blues that glides over the back cyc. As Emma and her father’s reality breaks the imagination spell, down spots engulf an actor in a harsh cage of light, as if trapped. The distinctly different visuals Yeager so beautifully creates supports the play like another character on the near empty stage.”
Mary L. Clark, The Column
The Spark
WaterTower Theatre
“Kudos to designer Bryant Yeager for imaginative lighting effects that find separate emotional ‘territories’ within this single-room set.”
Jan Farrington, TheaterJones