Birth Place: Columbus, OH, USA
Recent work includes A Doll's House, Part 2; David Cale's We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time (Goodman Theatre); Romeo et Juliette (Metropolitan Opera); Alexei Ratmansky's Romeo and Juliet (The Bolshoi Theatre); Shen Wei's Neither (BAM); and Richard Nelson's Uncle Vanya (Hunter College). Tipton teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. She has received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Jerome Robbins Prize, and the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008 she was made a United States Artists Gracie Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow. She is a two-time Tony Award winner.
Jennifer Tipton, Intimate Apparel
Jennifer Tipton, To Kill a Mockingbird
Jennifer Tipton, A Doll's House, Part 2
Jennifer Tipton, The Testament of Mary
Jennifer TiptonDance of Death
Jennifer Tipton , La Bête
Jennifer Tipton, Waiting For Godot
Jennifer Tipton, The Rimers of Eldritch
Jennifer Tipton, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Jennifer Tipton, Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Jennifer Tipton, Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Jennifer Tipton, Waiting for Godot / Long Day's Journey Into Night / Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Jennifer TiptonWorstward Ho
Jennifer Tipton, Whoopi Goldberg
Jennifer Tipton, Lunch Hour
Jennifer Tipton, Sophisticated Ladies
Jennifer Tipton, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf
Jennifer Tipton, The Cherry Orchard
Jennifer Tipton, The Cherry Orchard
Jennifer Tipton has been nominated for several awards throughout her career, including Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "Intimate Apparel," Best Lighting Design of a Play at the Tony Awards for "To Kill a Mockingbird," "A Doll's House, Part 2," and "The Testament of Mary." She also received recognition for Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production at the Helen Hayes Awards for "Dance of Death," Best Lighting Design at the Tony Awards for "La Bête," and Lighting Design at The Hewes Awards for various productions. Additionally, she was nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design at the Drama Desk Awards for several shows like "Waiting for Godot," "Long Day's Journey Into Night," and "Jerome Robbins' Broadway." Other nominations include Best Lighting Design at the Tony Awards for "Jerome Robbins' Broadway," and Outstanding Lighting Design at the Drama Desk Awards for "Whoopi Goldberg," "Lunch Hour," "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf," and "The Cherry Orchard."
Jennifer Tipton has won the following awards for her lighting design work: The Hewes Awards for Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Rimers of Eldritch, Waiting For Godot, and Worstward Ho. She also won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Additionally, she received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf and The Cherry Orchard.
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