ABOUT ME

Background:  I have been a professional lighting designer for theatre, dance, television and corporate events for more than 15 years, in venues ranging from the smallest off-off broadway venue to Carnegie Hall, as well as nationally and internationally.  I am also a co-founder and Artistic Director of Reverie Productions, a 10+ year-old not-for-profit theatre company, best known for groundbreaking new plays like SELF DEFENSE, AMERICAN MA(U)L,  REARVIEWMIRROR, FATBOY, and Ariel Dorfman's WIDOWS.

Over the last several years, I have developed the photographic skills necessary to capture theatrical images on film.  As an award-winning lighting designer, I have a unique understanding about what it takes to get good, crisp, clean photos in the theatre under less than ideal lighting situations, and as an artistic director, I know what it takes to make photos exciting or unusual enough to get printed in the major NY press.

My photos have been published in publications as widely varied as the New York Times, Time Out NY (& London), Newsday, New York Magazine, American Theatre, The Times (UK), The Scotsman, The Guardian, The Herald, and The Independent, on dozens of web sites, as well as in published scripts by Horton Foote, Robert O’Hara, Carson Kreitzer and Edward Albee.  My clients include: Classical Theater of Harlem, Clancy Productions, Assembly Theatre, The Flea, Overlap Productions, Nerve, Spin Cycle, A.R.T./New York & Barrow Street Theatre.

Meanwhile, I have recently added several galleries of my fine art photos, covering two decades of landscapes and travel photograph in black and white, color slides and digital, which are all available for sale.

Please browse the website, download my RESUME, and feel free to contact me anytime to discuss your photo shoot or lighting design needs.  

Colin D. Young

COLIN AT LightandPhoto DOT COM

(917) 902-3063 (C)

(347) 944-1650(O)