Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well known for her lighting for theater, opera, and dance. Her recent work in theater includes To Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway, Beckett’s First Love for Zoom, and all of Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck plays. Her recent work in opera includes Ricky Ian Gordon’s Intimate Apparel, with libretto by Lynn Nottage, based on her play by the same name, at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater; her recent work in dance includes Lauren Lovette’s Pentimento for the Paul Taylor Company and Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Paris Opera Ballet. Among many awards, she has received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003, the USA “Gracie” Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.

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