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Lighting Designer, Rent; The Three Musketeers\
In three seasons at OSF: Hairspray (2019), black odyssey (originally scheduled for OSF, 2020), Once on This Island (2022). Jason Lynch is a Chicago-based lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, and other live performance art. Other theatres: Clue, Skeleton Crew (Alley Theatre); Cymbeline, A Raisin in the Sun, Romeo + Juliet (American Players Theatre); Dream Hou$e (Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage); ABCD (Barrington Stage Company) I, Cinna, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Clyde’s, Paradise Blue (City Theatre Company); The Island (Court Theatre); Fetch Clay, Make Man (Dallas Theater Center); A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Wild Party, Drag On (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); How to Catch Creation (Geva Theatre Center); Layalina, The Ripple, The Wave That Carried Me Home, Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, I Hate It Here, Ohio State Murders, The Sound Inside, Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre); The Total Bent (Haven Theatre); August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre Company); Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Mr. Dickens’ Hat, How a Boy Falls (Northlight Theatre); The Central Park Five (Portland Opera); Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer) (Seattle Repertory Theatre); 1919, Choir Boy (2022 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award) (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Murder on the Orient Express, Feeding Beatrice (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); This Little Light of Mine (The Santa Fe Opera); Mala (The Old Globe); Fairview (Trinity Repertory Company); cullud wattah (2022 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Award), The First Deep Breath (Victory Gardens Theater). Other: Artistic Associate, Shattered Globe Theatre; 2019 Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. Education: BFA in Theatre Design/Technology, Texas Tech University. Jason is represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE and The Gersh Agency. www.jasondlynch.com, @jasonlynch.design on Instagram.