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PETER WEST
Lighting Design

Peter West was born in Heswall, England and grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia. He graduated from Guilford College with Bachelor of Science in Drama and Speech and completed graduate training at the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard. He is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. This biography was last updated on March 9th, 2010.

2010: Neighbors (dir. Niegel Smith) at the Public Theatre (NYSF) Romeo and Juliet (dir. Tim Ocel) at Indiana Rep, Mrs Warrens Profession (dir. Keith Baxter) at the Shakespeare Theatre, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz (2010 Season)

2009: Galileo (dir. Michael Donald Edwards) at the Asolo Theatre The Alchemist (dir. Michael Kahn) at the Shakespeare Theatre, Midsummer Nights Dream (dir. Aaron Posner) with Cal Shakes (2009 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award Nomination) and later ,at the Two River Theatre Company and Night Sky (dir. Daniella Topol) produced by Stan Raiff/Power Productions at Baruch College PAC as well as productions with Tanglewood Opera,Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Idaho Shakespeare and with the directors Drew Barr, Tim Ocel, Ira Siff and Edisa Weeks.

Other Recent Projects: Amistad (dir. Sam Helfrich) at the Spoleto Festival USA, The Imaginary Invalid (dir. Keith Baxter) at The Shakespeare Theatre, This Is The Rill Speaking (dir. Ned Canty) with American Opera Projects, Griffelkin (dir. Linda Brovsky) at The Manhattan School Of Music, Women Beware Women (dir:Jesse Berger) with Red Bull Theater, Electra (dir. Sam Gold) at Williams College, Martha Clarke at the American Dance Festival and, Ghosts (dir.Yevgeny Arye) at the Juilliard School.

Other Projects: The Revenger's Tragedy and Edward II (dir:Jesse Berger)with Red Bull Theater , A Month In The Country, The Village Singer and Lord Byron's Love Letter (dir. Ned Canty) all at The Manhattan School Of Music Perfect Partner (created by Kim Gordon,Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison) at the Barbican Centre in London and on tour in Europe and America, German Theatre Abroad (dirs:Daniel Fish and Simone Blattner) at the HERE ,NYC India Awaiting (dir. Tyler Marchant) at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, The Road Home (dir. David Schweizer) at the Huntington Theatre and, 9 Parts of Desire (dir. Joanna Settle) in New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Seattle and Washington,DC. He has designed thirty productions for the Juilliard School Drama Division.

Regional credits include: Much Ado About Nothing at the California Shakespeare Theatre (dir. Peter Dubois), The Country Wife,The Rivals and Lady Windemere's Fan (all dir. Keith Baxter) at the Shakespeare Theatre, Black Sheep at Barrington Stage Company, (dir. Daniel Fish), Side Man at A Contemporary Theatre (dir. Mladen Kiselov), Loves Labor's Lost (dir. Daniel Fish) Cymbeline (dir. Danny Scheie) and Macbeth (dir. Michael Donald Edwards) at Shakespeare Santa Cruz where he spent three seasons. Other credits include Pittsburgh Public, ART, Geva, Cleveland Playhouse and,the McCarter Theatre. He has also designed many shows for Playmakers Rep in Chapel Hill, NC.

Peter designed the NETworks tour of Kiss of the Spiderwoman in both America and Japan. Other international credits include designs at the Teatro Filharmonico in Verona, Italy, at the Artsphere Theater in Tokyo, and with Endemol Productions in the Netherlands. He has toured throughout America, Europe, South America and Asia as the Lighting Director of the White Oak Dance Project.

He is proud to have collaborated with the dancers and choreographers Amy Spencer and Richard Colton on a variety of projects over the last twenty years. He has also maintained long standing relationships with The Shakespeare Theater, Playmakers, The Juilliard School, Nina Winthrop and Dancers, Red Bull Theater Company, Edisa Weeks and Williams College where he was a Guest Lecturer in Lighting Design for the Spring of 2008. He is currently an Adjunct Lighting Professor at Brooklyn College.

Peter lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his wife Kathy Hood, Administrative Director of the Juilliard Drama Division. He loves her, cooking, the Yankees, and music of all styles.


Photographer: Kate Dale

Peter West LIGHTING DESIGN
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