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Dean P. Palmer, Jr.
Dean P. Palmer, Jr.
Dean Palmer, Jr. is a professional Lighting Designer, Educator, and Senior Design Partner at Blue Edge Design. With over two decades of industry experience, Dean’s work has been seen across the Northeast, spanning musical theatre, opera, and large-scale live events.
While currently serving as the Resident Lighting Designer for The Company Theatre, his extensive credits include productions at Harbour Lights Theatre (Dear Evan Hansen, A One Man Christmas Carol), Opera Providence (Cosi Fan Tutte), and The Academy Players (Ant'ny Claus 2). His design work has also been featured at the Barker Playhouse (The Murder Room, The Producers), Granite Theatre (The Belle of Amherst), and the Bradley Playhouse (Young Frankenstein). Earlier in his career, he designed for several New York City venues, including Theaterlab and the Producer’s Club Theater.
Dean is a four-time Broadway World Boston Regional Award winner for Best Lighting Design (2022–2025) and holds a USITT Honorable Mention for Technical Innovation. When not behind a console, he enjoys teaching the next generation of designers the intricacies of the ETC Eos family of consoles. In his full-time job, he is the Director of IT for an independent school in Providence. He lives in Cumberland, Rhode Island, with his wife and 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
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