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Jennifer Tipton
Original Lighting Designer, "Nine Sinatra Songs"

Jennifer Tipton is well known for her lighting for theater, opera and dance. Her recent work in theater includes Pictures From Home on Broad­way, To Kill A Mockingbird on tour, 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 Amy Hall Warner’s Somewhere in the Middle and Lauren Lovette’s Dreamachine both for the Paul Taylor Company. Recently she cre­ated her own “installation” at the Baryshnikov Art Center, Our Days and Night. Among many awards, she has received the Dorothy and Lil­lian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003 and in 2008 she was awarded the USA “Gracie” Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship.