Don is an award-winning freelance lighting designer and production electrician who moved to Portland from the Midwest in 1994. He spent 1996 to 2007 as Master Electrician at Portland Center Stage, where he continues to serve as the lighting designer for JAW: A Playwright's Festival (since its inception in 1999). Don joined Third Rail as a Core Company Member in July 2008 and acts as Third Rail's Co-Production Manager and Lighting Designer. Don will design the lighting for all three productions of the 2010-2011 season.
Lighting Design Credits
Third Rail: The Gray Sisters, American Buffalo, The Lying Kind, Fabuloso, Dead Funny, Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Shining City, and A Lesson From Aloes
Portland Center Stage: The Receptionist, The Santaland Diaries, The Thugs, Act A Lady, Fully Committed, Another Fine Mess, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The SantaLand Diaries/A Christmas Memory
Artists Repertory Theatre: Othello, The Mercy Seat, Touch, The Laramie Project, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Master Class
Portland Opera Association: Trouble in Tahiti, La Calisto, Albert Herring
Oregon Children's Theatre: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Einsten is a Dummy, It's A Wonderful Life
CoHo Productions: Fool for Love, The Receptionist, Collected Stories, The Amazing Brenda Strider
Broadway Rose Theatre Company: Chicago
Upcoming Design Projects
Find Me Beside You for Many Hats Collaborations
Alice and Wonderland for Oregon Children's Theatre
The Santaland Diaries for the Portland Center Stage
L'Heure Espangnole and L'Enfant et Les Sortileges for the Portland Opera Association
Jack Goes Boating for Artists Repertory Theatre
Awards
Drammy for Outstanding Lighting Design:
Einstein is a Dummy
A Lesson From Aloes
Chicago
SantaLand Diaries/A Christmas Memory
The Laramie Project
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