Lighting Designer, Henry IV, Part One

In two seasons at OSF: The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado about Nothing. 

Other theatres: Off-Broadway: The Death of the Last Black Man . . . (Signature Theatre); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep); Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); FUTURITY (Soho Rep, Ars Nova); Republic, Beckett Solos (Hoi Polloi); Livin’ La Vida Imelda, Chairs and a Long Table (Ma-Yi Theater Company); and others. Regional: The Bluest Eye (Guthrie Theater); The Christians, Romeo and Juliet (Dallas Theater Center); Assassins, War, In a Year with 13 Moons (Yale Repertory Theatre); When the Rain Stops Falling, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Wilma Theater); Becoming Cuba (Huntington Theatre Company); and others. 

Opera: Ouroboros Trilogy (ArtsEmerson); Angel’s Bone (Prototype Festival); La Cenerentola (Curtis Institute of Music); Anthony Braxton’s Trillium J (Roulette). 

Music: Paola Prestini’s Labyrinth Installation Concertos (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts); La Prose du Transsibérien (Beinecke Library, Yale University). 

Dance: The Garden (Nichole Canuso Dance Company). 

Awards: Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre (2016). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama; BA, University of Chicago.

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