Beverly Emmons | |
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| Born | (1943-12-12)December 12, 1943 (age 81) |
| Occupation | Lighting designer |
| Spouse | Peter Simon |
| Awards | 6 Tony Award nominations |
Beverly Emmons (b. December 12, 1943)[1] is an American lighting designer for the stage, dance and opera.[2]
Emmons graduated fromSarah Lawrence College in 1965 and then worked as an assistant toJules Fisher.[3] Her first credit as a lighting designer was with theOff-Broadway playSensations in 1970. Emmons firstBroadway work wasA Letter for Queen Victoria in 1975. She has been the lighting designer for many Broadway plays and musicals since then, most recently the revival ofAnnie Get Your Gun in 1999[4] andStick Fly in 2011.[5]
She has worked for ballet companies, including theMerce Cunningham Dance Company, and also for choreographers such asMartha Graham,Bill T. Jones andTrisha Brown.[6] Her work for opera includes theRobert Wilson andPhilip Glass operaEinstein on the Beach in November 1976 at theMetropolitan Opera House,[7] and the Robert Wilson operaThe Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, performed in 1986 at theBrooklyn Academy of Music.[8]
She was on the graduate theater faculty ofColumbia University, was the artistic director of the Lincoln Center Institute from 1997 to 2002,[6] and is currently on the faculty ofSarah Lawrence College.
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