Jennifer Tipton
| Jennifer Tipton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 11, 1937 Columbus, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Thomas Skelton |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Awards | The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, MacArthur Fellows Program |
Jennifer Tipton (born September 11, 1937 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater, and opera.
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 2013, for The Testament of Mary. 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 for 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, Jiří_Kylián, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Dan Wagoner, and Shen Wei.
Tipton has designed lighting for the American Ballet Theatre since A Soldier’s Tale (1971). She designed the lighting for Baryshnikov's production of The Nutcracker, both for the stage and for television.
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