THEATRE LIGHTING

COLIN D. YOUNG has designed the lighting for more than 100 theatre and dance showsm including premieres by Edward Albee, Ariane Mnouchkine and Robert O'Hara, with directors like Chris McElroen, James Houghton, John Clancy and Arthur French.  Recent highlights include Crazy Locomotive (2003 Vivian Robinson/Audelco Award – Best Lighting Design), The Classical Theater of Harlem's Obie Award winning production of Jean Genet's The Blacks: A Clown Show, John Clancy's Fatboy (Winner of the 2004 Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2003 Audelco Award for Best Production), American Ma(u)l, Valerie Shoots Andy, Brave Brood (NYC and Berkeley) and An African Nutcracker. Colin was formerly the technical director for Signature Theatre Company, as well as the founding technical director and lighting supervisor for the New York International Fringe Festival, and has also directed Reverie’s radio plays Don’t Panic! and War of the Worlds.  Colin is a co-founder of Reverie Productions, and is a graduate of Duke University and the Yale School of Drama.