Jennifer Tipton

Jennifer Tipton (b. Sept. 11, 1937 Columbus, OH, USA) is an award-winning lighting designer. She has designed many types of shows including ballets, plays, and musical productions. In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University. [http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/98/10.29.98/Tipton.html] In 1977, she won a Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for lighting Andrei Serban's production of "The Cherry Orchard" and won the same award again in 1989 for lighting "Jerome Robbins' Broadway". She is well known for her designs for dance as well as for her many years as instructor for lighting at the Yale School of Drama. Choreographers she has worked with include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jiri Kylian, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, and Dan Wagoner. She designed the lighting for Baryshnikov's production of "The Nutcracker", both for the stage and for television. In January 2008, Tipton designed a large lighting display for the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. It was her first non-theatrical installation. [http://www.empac.rpi.edu/graphics/events/2008/spring/tipton/tipton_timesunionWeb.pdf] [http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2008/tipton.html] In September 2008, she won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant.

Ms. Tipton trained many lighting designers, including Donald Holder, Christopher Akerlind, Michael Chybowski, M.L. Geiger and Robert Wierzel. 2006 Tony award winner Howell Binkley assisted her for many years.

She has been Professor-Adjunct at the Yale School of Drama since 1981.

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title=Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
years=1976-1977
for "The Cherry Orchard"
before=Jules Fisher
for " Chicago"
after=Jules Fisher
for "Dancin'"

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=25927 Jennifer Tipton] at the Internet Broadway Database
* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10916F63E5F0C728DDDAB0894DC484D81 NY Times article by Nan Robertson, February 11, 1984]