Dean Palmer, Jr.
Dean P. Palmer, Jr.
Dean has worked in many aspects of Theatre and live event production including Corporate events, Concerts, Festivals, Regional Theatre and Off-Off Broadway, for the past 20 years. He has worked on numerous shows around RI, CT, MA and NY, some of which include Miss Saigon, American Idiot, A Chorus Line and Chicago. He designed two original plays, Drowning in the Sun and Cracked (Upon a Time) at the Producer’s Club Theater and TheaterLab in New York City. Dean is a Senior Design Partner at Blue Edge Design (blueedgedesign.org), a network of southern New England Theatre professionals. Dean is also the Resident Lighting Designer at The Company Theatre in Norwell, MA. He lives in Rhode Island with his beautiful and talented wife and their three children..
"We decided to form Blue Edge Design because there was a strong need for professional lighting design in local theatre. No one had a way of finding a lighting designer. Blue Edge Design is a network of designers that help each other find work and work as a team to help give local theatre a professional look. I was starting to feel like the 'Emergency Lighting Designer' for Rhode Island, getting calls when someone was in a pinch. I'm always willing to help, but I can't do it all... it was time to create a team! It really is the best team!"
-Dean Palmer, Jr., Lighting Designer
"Dean Palmer Jr.’s impressive lighting is prominent throughout the production from an atmospheric glow to flickering street lamps to twinkling stars to illuminated lanterns most evident in a gorgeous display for Turning and the unique and stirring staging accentuates the resonating and timely number, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables " - The Sleepless Critic - 1/29/2022 Les Miserables School Edition, The Company Theatre Norwell, MA
"Dean Palmer, Jr.’s lighting is a call that lifts the characters (and possibly the audience) out of themselves." - nytheatre.com 8/13/2011 Cracked Upon a Time
"Dean Palmer’s lighting design is also noteworthy, especially as fire is a major symbol in the story, and the lighting is used to create the impression of fire to the extent where you can almost feel the heat." - Motif Magazine RI 10/24/17 Hunchback of Notre Dame
"The look of this show has dropped the jaw of everyone who has seen it." - Motif Magazine RI 11/7/18 Tommy
"As the show begins, the stage is practically bare and adorned in black…as are most of the amazingly talented featured ensemble performers in the show. The absence of color signifies the abundance of restrictions. The abundance of darkness signifies the absence of hope. Ingeniously utilized lighting signifies the blurred line between infamy and celebrity. Perfect for this particular musical primarily set inside a woman’s prison." -METRMAG 10/21/19 Chicago
