This production of Romeo and Juliet was performed during the inaugural season of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival in June of 2009. This Equity Theatre Festival takes place utilizing the theatres at TCU in Fort Worth and opened with excellent reviews.

I received a Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum Award for the lighting design of this show.

The Critic for the Examiner, Alexandra Bonifield stated, "Director Alexander Burns and Lighting designer Michael Skinner envisioned together well, arriving at exquisitely evocative stage pictures. The tragic waste of life, the sadness of parental loss, could not be better expressed through light and structural elements, even before the actors speak Shakespeare’s text."

 Tyler Cochran of the Pegasus News said, "Burns and his designers — who include Brian Clinnin (costumes & scenic) and Michael Skinner (lighting) — have turned Verona into a simple and at times stunning gathering place of intense sword fighting and celebratory dancing (good for checking out potential partners)."