Jennifer Tipton (born September 11, 1937 Columbus, Ohio) is an award-winning lighting designer. She has designed for dance, ballets, and stage productions.
In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University. While performing as a dancer and rehearsal mistress, she noticed the importance of lighting, and studied dance lighting with Thomas Skelton, becoming his assistant.
Her first lighting design for Broadway was in 1969 for Our Town, and her most rec...
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Jennifer Tipton (born September 11, 1937 Columbus, Ohio) is an award-winning lighting designer. She has designed for dance, ballets, and stage productions.
In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University. While performing as a dancer and rehearsal mistress, she noticed the importance of lighting, and studied dance lighting with Thomas Skelton, becoming his assistant.
Her first lighting design for Broadway was in 1969 for Our Town, and her most recent in 2000 for Wrong Mountain. Among her many awards and nominations, she won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for lighting Andrei Serban's production of The Cherry Orchard and the 1989 Tony Award for lighting Jerome Robbins' Broadway. She also has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design twice.
She is known for her designs for dance and is the principal lighting designer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Choreographers she has worked with include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jiri Kylian, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul...
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