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[Off-Broadway, 2007]
Lighting Designer
 
[Off-Broadway, 2006]
Lighting Designer

Awards and Nominations

Helen Hayes Awards - 2011 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan Coveythe Verge or The Geography of Yearning

Helen Hayes Awards - 2006 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyHannah & Martin

Helen Hayes Awards - 2005 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyMary's Wedding

Helen Hayes Awards - 2005 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyMerlin and the Cave of Dreams

Helen Hayes Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyReturn to Morality

Helen Hayes Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveySlaughter City

Helen Hayes Awards - 2002 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyMacbeth


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Helen Hayes Awards - 2001 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyTempest

Helen Hayes Awards - 2001 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyLeaving the Summer Land


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Helen Hayes Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyTempest

Helen Hayes Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyLeaving the Summer Land

Helen Hayes Awards - 1999 - Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Dan CoveyDangerous Liaisons

News


Netflix Renews XO, KITTY For Season Two

The cast includes Anna Cathcart (Kitty Song Covey), Minyeong Choi (Dae), Gia Kim (Yuri), Sang Heon Lee (Min Ho), Anthony Keyvan (Q), Peter Thurnwald (Alex) with Yunjin Kim (Jina), Sarayu Blue (Trina), John Corbett (Dan Covey), Michael K Lee (Professor Lee), Jocelyn Shelfo (Madison), Théo Augier (Florian), and Regan Aliyah (Juliana).
BWW Review: A new look at TWELVE ANGRY MEN at Ford's Theatre

Even after 65 years after Twelve Angry Men was first performed, we sit with the uncomfortable realization that prejudice shapes many of our interactions. The current production at Ford's Theatre is an important message, a provocative reminder, and a great night of theater
TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE is Now Available on Netflix

TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE launches globally on Netflix Friday, August 17th.
2017 Helen Hayes Award Winners Announced!

BroadwayWorld has a full list of the Helen Hayes Awards winners updating LIVE below! Named for actor Helen Hayes - a Washington native and legendary First Lady of the American Theatre - the Helen Hayes Awards celebrates excellence in professional theatre throughout the Washington region and has become a hallmark recognized by theatre makers and theatre lovers far beyond Washington D.C.
2017 Helen Hayes Award Nominations Announced; COME FROM AWAY Nabs 14 Nominations

The 2017 Helen Hayes Award nominations were announced tonight. A line-up of leading theatre artists announced nominations in 47 categories of artistic excellence. Award recipients will be announced at the Helen Hayes Awards gala event to be held at the Lincoln Theatre on Monday, May 15 with an after-party hosted at Washington's legendary 9:30 Club.
Jane Martin's H2O Runs Next Month at Rep Stage

Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 24th season with Jane Martin's "H2O," directed by Kasi Campbell. "H20" transports audiences into the reclusive, madcap world of Jane Martin's drama/comedy/love story about self-destruction, notoriety, and the dark journey to purity and salvation. "H2O" opens February 15, 2017, with a limited run through March 5.
BWW Review: MILK LIKE SUGAR at Mosaic Theater A Sensitive Portrayal of Teen Girlhood

It is timely to have a show that focuses like a laser on the complex psychology of young women, as they make their first awkward steps into adulthood. Mosaic Theater's commitment to confronting our deepest community issues continues with Jennifer Nelson's stellar production of Milk Like Sugar, Kirsten Greenidge's Obie-award winning drama about teenage girls navigating their way through their high school years, the most treacherous of all.
Mosaic Theater Company Presents MILK LIKE SUGAR, Today

Hot on the heels of the record-breaking, critically hailed Satchmo at the Waldorf, Mosaic Theater Company of DC's Season Two continues with Kirsten Greenidge's riotous, Obie Award-winning MILK LIKE SUGAR (November 2 - 27, 2016), under the direction of Mosaic Theater's Jennifer L. Nelson (The Gospel of Lovingkindness). The play, Mosaic's second DC premiere this season, is a rousing story about young women coming of age in a time when issues of acceptance, mentorship, and materialism challenge the dreams and ambitious of so many teens. It is the first of three plays in Mosaic's 2016-17 season to highlight issues affecting young urban teens and millennials, to be followed by the DC premiere of Philip Dawkins' intergenerational LGBTQ comedy Charm, and the world premiere of Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm's Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies.
Mosaic Theater Company Presents MILK LIKE SUGAR, 11/2

Hot on the heels of the record-breaking, critically hailed Satchmo at the Waldorf, Mosaic Theater Company of DC's Season Two continues with Kirsten Greenidge's riotous, Obie Award-winning MILK LIKE SUGAR (November 2 - 27, 2016), under the direction of Mosaic Theater's Jennifer L. Nelson (The Gospel of Lovingkindness). The play, Mosaic's second DC premiere this season, is a rousing story about young women coming of age in a time when issues of acceptance, mentorship, and materialism challenge the dreams and ambitious of so many teens. It is the first of three plays in Mosaic's 2016-17 season to highlight issues affecting young urban teens and millennials, to be followed by the DC premiere of Philip Dawkins' intergenerational LGBTQ comedy Charm, and the world premiere of Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm's Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies.
BWW Review: Miraculous Rebecca Dines in David Lindsay-Abaire's Powerful GOOD PEOPLE at American Stage

Director Stephanie Gularte leads a brilliant ensemble in an astounding season opener.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN and SALOME Win Big at the 2016 Helen Hayes Awards, Complete List of Winners!

Tonight, before a gathering of theatre artists and patrons, theatreWashington announced the winners of the 2016 Helen Hayes Awards, drawn from 202 eligible productions presented in the 2015 calendar year. Scroll down for the full list of nominees and winners!
Dan O'Brien's THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN to Play Theater J, 4/27-5/22

The regional premiere of the 2014 award-winning drama, The Body of An American, written by Guggenheim Fellow Dan O'Brien, plays at Theater J April 27 through May 22, 2016. This bold, radically theatrical, and poetic true story is the winner of the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, and the PEN Center USA Award for Drama.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN, WEST SIDE STORY and More Among 2016 Helen Hayes Award Nominees; Full List!

Tonight, before a gathering of theatre artists and patrons, theatreWashington announced the nominees for the 2016 Helen Hayes Awards, drawn from 202 eligible productions presented in the 2015 calendar year. Scroll down for the full list of nominees!
BWW Review: GOSPEL OF LOVINGKINDNESS A Brilliant Call to Action

With their searing new drama, Marcus Gardley's The Gospel of Lovingkindness, Mosaic Theater confirms that their vision is solid, their commitment to the community steadfast.  And the talent assembled under the sensitive, energetic direction of Jennifer L. Nelson is everything one could ask for.  It almost goes without saying that the timeliness of this play-about the loss of young men to the streets, and often for the most shocking of reasons-cannot be overstated.
The Ford's Theatre to Continue 2015-16 Season with THE GLASS MENAGERIE

The Ford's Theatre 2015-2016 season continues with 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams, January 22 to February 21, 2016. One of the greatest American plays of the 20th century and Tennessee Williams's breakout drama, 'The Glass Menagerie' explores the visceral bonds of family. The production features stage and film actress Madeleine Potter as Amanda, with Tom Story as Tom, Jenna Sokolowski as Laura, and Thomas Keegan as the Gentleman Caller.
Mosaic Theater Company of DC Tackles Inner-City Violence with THE GOSPEL OF LOVINGKINDNESS Tonight

Fresh off the successful run of its inaugural production, Unexplored Interior (This is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the Earth), Mosaic Theater Company of DC doubles-down its focus on posing the big questions of our community with Charles MacArthur Award-nominee Marcus Gardley's lyrical THE GOSPEL OF LOVINGKINDNESS, a poetic chamber play that takes audience members to the streets of Chicago in a story both tragic and familiar.
BWW Review: Vibrant,Joyous BLACK NATIVITY at Theater Alliance

Featuring a host of home-grown talent from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Howard University, Black Nativity drinks deeply of the Christmas season's true spirit, the sorrow as well as the joy, and can fill your heart in ways that few holiday offerings can.  This isn't just a feel-good show, this is also a show for those who feel the pain of loss keenly this time of year, and it offers a balm for what ails us.
Mosaic Theater Company of DC to Tackle Inner-City Violence with THE GOSPEL OF LOVINGKINDNESS This Winter

Fresh off the successful run of its inaugural production, Unexplored Interior (This is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the Earth), Mosaic Theater Company of DC doubles-down its focus on posing the big questions of our community with Charles MacArthur Award-nominee Marcus Gardley's lyrical THE GOSPEL OF LOVINGKINDNESS, a poetic chamber play that takes audience members to the streets of Chicago in a story both tragic and familiar.
TECHNICOLOR LIFE at Rep Stage in Columbia is a World Premiere by Jami Brandli

Part of the Women's Voices Theatre Festival, author Brandli shows great promise.
TECHNICOLOR LIFE to Premiere at Rep Stage as Part of Women's Voices Theater Festival

Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 23rd season with Jami Brandli's "Technicolor Life," directed by Joseph W. Ritsch, Rep Stage's co-producing artistic director. Maxine, a book smart teenager, is caught between her older sister, a wounded soldier who just returned from the war in Iraq, and her ailing grandmother with a flair for American movie musicals.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What awards has Dan Covey been nominated for?

Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for the Verge or The Geography of Yearning , Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Hannah & Martin, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Mary's Wedding, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Merlin and the Cave of Dreams, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Return to Morality, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Slaughter City, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Macbeth, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Tempest, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Leaving the Summer Land , Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Tempest, Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Leaving the Summer Land and Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Dangerous Liaisons.

What awards has Dan Covey won?

Dan Covey has won the following awards: Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Tempest and Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Tempest.

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