Dennis Parichy is an American lighting designer. He won the 1980Drama Desk Award forTalley's Folly and theObie Award in 1981.
Parichy has designed lighting for 25Broadway productions since 1976, including:The Price,The Tenth Man,Coastal Disturbances,Penn & Teller,Burn This,The Nerd,As Is,Angels Fall,The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,Duet for One,Crimes of the Heart,The Water Engine, andKnock Knock.[1]
He has designed forOff-Broadway and regional theatres as well.[2] His first Off-Broadway show wasLittle Eyolf at the Actors Playhouse in 1964; he was the lighting designer for theLanford Wilson playsLudlow Fair atCaffe Cino in 1965 andBook of Days in a Signature Theatre Company production in November 2002.[3]
Parichy has been nominated three times for aTony Award, for his work onRedwood Curtain (1993),Fifth of July (1981), andTalley's Folly (1980), for which he won a 1980Drama Desk Award.[1]
He was the resident lighting designer forCircle Repertory Company where he worked with directorMarshall W. Mason on the first productions of plays by many American playwrights. He lit many productions for theManhattan Theatre Club, such asThe Miss Firecracker Contest (1984),Bloody Poetry (1987) andAristocrats (1989).[3]
He has had a long working relationship withAthol Fugard.[4] He designed the lighting for Fugard'sScenes from Soweto (Manhattan Theatre Club, 1978),Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Manhattan Theatre Club, 1978),Boesman and Lena (Off-Broadway, 1992),Playland (1993) (Manhattan Theatre Club), andMy Children! My Africa! (Off-Broadway, 1989).[3] At theMcCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey, he was the lighting designer forThe Captain's Tiger (1998);[5] atSeattle Repertory Theatre he designed the lighting forValley Song in January 1998.[6]
He is one of the company artists atPeople's Light and Theatre Company, Malvern, Pennsylvania, and has provided lighting for many shows there since 2004.[7] He was the lighting designer for People's Light production ofNathan the Wise starringDavid Straithairn in September 2009.[8]
Among his many works in regional theatre he designed the lighting for the Repertory of St. Louis Repertory Theatre and Hartford Stage production of Lanford Wilson'sBook of Days in 1999, starringDee Hoty.[9] He was the lighting designer for theCincinnati Playhouse in the Park production ofTally's Folly in 2001.[10] He was the lighting designer for thePittsburgh Public Theater production ofWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1999, starringBonnie Franklin.[11]
He received the 1981Obie Award for sustained excellence in lighting design.[12]
Parichy teaches Theatre Design/Technology atPurchase College. He is a graduate ofNorthwestern University.[13]
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