Alexander V. Nichols

Alex Nichols

Lighting Designer, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

In seven seasons at OSF: Video, The Tempest, Cymbeline, The Heart of Robin Hood, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; video and lighting, King John, Continental Divide; lighting, Seagull, Death and the King’s Horseman, Henry VIII, Othello

Other theatres: Broadway: Production design, Wishful Drinking; video, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway; Nice Work If You Can Get It. Off-Broadway: In Masks Outrageous and Austere, Los Big Names, Horizon, Bridge and Tunnel, Taking Over, Through the Night, In the Wake. Regional: Scenic, lighting and/or projection designs for American Conservatory Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre. 

Dance: Resident designer for Pennsylvania Ballet, Hartford Ballet, American Repertory Ballet; lighting supervisor for American Ballet Theatre; resident designer for Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Scenic, lighting and/or projection designs for San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey and Hubbard Street, Hong Kong Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre and ODC/SF, among others. 

Music: LIFE: A Journey Through Time (Philip Glass and Frans Lanting), Visual Music (Kronos Quartet), Paul Dresher Ensemble, Bill Frisell, Rinde Eckert.