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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 June 28th , 2008

Upcoming: Don Giovanni (dir. Ned Canty) at the Curtis Institute and, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well That Ends Well (dir. Kim Rubinstein and Tim Ocel) at Shakespeare Santa Cruz

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, Edward II (dir:Jesse Berger) with Red Bull Theatre, Electra (dir. Sam Gold) at Williams College , Martha Clarke's Garden of Earthly Delights-work in progress at The American Dance Festival (a co-design with Christopher Akerlind) and, Ghosts (dir.Yevgeny Arye) at the Juilliard School

Other Projects: The Revenger's Tragedy (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 over twenty five 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 two seasons. Other credits include Pittsburgh Public, ART, Geva, Cleveland Playhouse and,the McCarter Theatre. He has also designed many show 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 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 fifteen 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.

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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