Jane Cox

Jane Cox 2016

(she/her/hers)

Lighting Designer, Snow in Midsummer

In nine seasons at OSF: Roe; Antony and Cleopatra; Head Over Heels; Family Album; Richard III; Into the Woods; The Tenth Muse; As You Like It; The Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; Henry IV, Part Two; The Pirates of Penzance; Twelfth Night; The Merchant of Venice; A View from the Bridge

Other theatres: Broadway: The Color Purple; Amelie; Jitney; Machinal; Picnic; All the Way; Come Back, Little Sheba; Dame Edna’s Back with a Vengeance. Off-Broadway: Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Classic Stage Company. 

Opera: Sydney Opera House (Australia), Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera. 

Other credits: Teaching: Director of the theatre program, Princeton University. Company member: Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company. 

Awards: 2017 Tony nomination (Jitney); 2016 Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theater Women; 2014 Tony nomination (All the Way); 2013 Henry Hewes Design Award; multiple Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. 

Education: MFA, New York University.