Ruth Morley Design Award 2000 - Jennifer Tipton

JENNIFER TIPTON, Lighting Designer

Jennifer Tipton is well known for her work in theater, dance and opera.  Her recent work in opera includes Gounod’s ROMEO ET JULIETTE  directed by Bart Sher at the Salzberg Festival, IL TROVATORE for the MET directed by David McVicar and the Wooster Group’s LA DIDONE.  Her recent work in dance includes Balanchine’s JEWELS for the Royal Ballet in London and Jerome Robbins’ LES NOCES for the NYC Ballet.  In theater her recent work includes CONVERSATIONS IN TUSCULUM written and directed by Richard Nelson at the Public Theater and Ibsen’s THE WILD DUCK directed by Charlie Newell at the Court Theater in Chicago.   Ms. Tipton teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama.  She received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003 and in April 2004 the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City.  In 2009 she became a USA “Gracie” Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow.

Photo by Lois Greenfield

Bio current as of January 2009.