Michael Giannitti, Lighting Design
Giannitti designs lighting for theater and dance performances around the country. On Broadway, he designed lighting for August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, which he also designed at Arena Stage, Huntington, Seattle Rep and Old Globe Theaters. He is resident lighting designer at the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, where he has designed over 25 productions and was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award in 1999. He has designed lighting for numerous productions for the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts, Trinity Rep in Providence, RI, and Capital Rep in Albany, NY. He has also designed lighting for a host of other venues, including Virginia Stage, George Street Playhouse, Jomandi, Portland Stage, Merkin Hall, Opera Ensemble of New York, and Indiana Rep. He has designed lighting for dance productions in New York at The Joyce, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, P.S. 122, and La Mama for choreographers Susan Rethorst, Nugent + Mattison, Cathy Weis and Marta Renzi, as well as Everett Dance Theater at Dance Theater Workshop, Spoleto Festival, Walker Arts Center, and on tour. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant recipient, Giannitti taught at the National University of Art, Theater and Cinema in Bucharest, Romania in Fall 2004 and at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in Summer 2006. He currently serves on the Fulbright Senior Specialist Theater and Dance Peer review panel. BA, Bates College; MFA, Yale University School of Drama. He has taught at Bennington since 1992.
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