Robert Wierzel

Robert Wierzel

Lighting Designer, Twelfth Night

In one season at OSF: A Streetcar Named Desire. 

Other theatres: Broadway: Fela!; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Audra McDonald); David Copperfield’s Dreams and Nightmares. Off-Broadway: Othello (New York Shakespeare Festival/ Public Theater); Two Trains Running, Hot ‘N Throbbing (Signature Theatre Company); Indian Ink (Roundabout Theatre Company). Regional: Alliance Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Stage–Baltimore, Arena Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Geva Theatre, The Old Globe Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, among others. 

International: Royal National Theatre of London; Enigmatic Variations (Savoy Theatre). 

Opera: Companies in New York, Paris, Bergen, Cooperstown, Chicago, Seattle, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and many others. 

Dance: 30 years collaborating with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. 

Awards: Tony Award nomination (Fela!); American Theatre Wing Lighting Design Award for collaborations with composer Philip Glass. 

Other credits: Faculty member, New York University Tisch School of the Arts; guest lecturer, Yale School of Drama.