Alan Edwards

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Alan C. Edwards is a lighting designer who’s work Off-Broadway includes the world premier of Harry Clarke at The Vineyard, for which he received a Lucille Lortel Award, the world premier of Kill Move Paradise at the National Black Theatre which received a Drama Desk nomination, and Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror at the Signature Theatre which also received a Lucille Lortel nomination.

Regionally, he’s had the pleasure of designing three plays by Dominique Morisseau: Pipeline, Skeleton Crew (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and Detroit ’67 (Chautauqua Theatre Co.), Twisted Melodies, a new musical about Donny Hathaway at Center Stage Baltimore, and the new musical Lights Out: Nat King Cole at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, as well as its world premier production at People’s Light & Theatre Co. in Malvern, PA in 2017.

Additional credits include The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall at Signature Theatre in New York, The New Englanders at Manhattan Theatre Club • Stage II, American Moor (Red Bull), Native Son (The Acting Company), Bluebird Memories featuring rap-artist Common (Audible Theatre), productions of Dutchman, Antigone and Macbeth for the Classical Theatre of Harlem, and a special collaboration between CTH and The Apollo Theatre in New York, the new musical The First Noel by Lelund Durond Thompson and Jason Michael Webb. His work has been seen in many theatres including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Rep, Miami New Drama, Dallas Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in The Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, The Guthrie, and The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. On Broadway he was the associate to Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary.

In 1999, Alan joined the lighting crew for the Spotlight Theatre fall production of The Dining Room. During his time in high school he spent a lot of time in the theatre learning about lighting and stage design through his involvement with Spotlight Theatre and The R-H Singers. He led the lighting crew for all Spotlight productions, concerts and other events from his sophomore through senior years (class of '03). He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design from Ithaca College ('07), and Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from the Yale School of Drama ('11), where in 2016 he became a member of the lighting faculty.