Chip Monck
| Chip Monck | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Edward Herbert Beresford Monck March 5, 1939 Wellesley, Massachusetts |
| Residence | Fitzroy, Victoria |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Chip Monk, Chipmonck |
| Occupation | Lighting Designer, Staging Designer |
| Years active | 1959 - current |
| Known for | |
| Awards | 2004 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award, 1975 Tony nomination for Lighting Design |
| Website | www |
Edward Herbert Beresford "Chip" Monck (born March 5, 1939 in Wellesley, Massachusetts) is an American Tony Award nominated lighting designer, most famously serving as the master of ceremonies at the 1969 .
Monck was born to a mother from Nutley, New Jersey and a father from Liverpool, he acquired the nickname "Chip" at a summer camp in Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. While Monck went to the South Kent School on Ice Hockey and Crew scholarships, he became more interested in welding and machinery, designing a potato harvester that he sold to McCormick. He began volunteering with a summer theater group at Wellesley College, learning the basics of theatrical lighting from Greg Harney. He began auditing classes at Harvard while working with the university's theater company.
Monck began working at the Greenwich Village nightclub The Village Gate in 1959, lighting comedians and Jazz and Folk artists, and living in the basement apartment under the club (Bob Dylan wrote "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" on Monck's IBM Selectric typewriter). He began an eight-year-long relationship with the Newport Folk Festival, and a nine-year one with the Newport Jazz Festival, while continuing to work at the Gate. He became friends with Charles Altman of the Altman Lighting Co., repairing equipment and borrowing lighting instruments to improve the stage lighting of the Gate. He began lighting the stage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
In 1967, he lit the Monterey Pop Festival, which featured the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who, as well as the first major public performances of Janis Joplin. Monck's work can be seen in the D. A. Pennebaker film Monterey Pop. That year, he also did The Byrds at the Hollywood Bowl and his first Rolling Stones concert. The following year, he worked with Crosby, Stills and Nash in Europe, and began working with concert impresario Bill Graham, renovating the Fillmore theaters.
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