GMHC Presents:
Jeff Davis, Lighting Designer
Jeff Davis has been designing for most of the major opera companies
in the United States, including Washington Opera, Cleveland, Indianapolis,
and many others. His debut in Canada was Turandot for Opera de Quebec
in 2003. For his designs for the Duke Ellington musical Play On, Mr.
Davis received a Los Angeles Dramalogue award. In 1996 he received
Philadelphia's Barrymore Award for his designs for the play Love!
Valour! Compassion! Mr. Davis has designed numerous Broadway plays
and musicals, as well as internationally televised productions,
including many of his New York City Opera productions, two of which
have won production Emmy Awards. He designed Rodgers and Hammerstein's
Carousel for Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, followed by all the events
and performances for the week-long world premiere of a new Texas
performance space, Performing Arts Fort Worth. He also designed
three original Broadway-style musicals for the first Walt Disney
Cruise Line ship. As resident Lighting Designer at the New York City
Opera from 1991 to 1996, Jeff Davis designed 26 new productions and
revitalized the lighting of most of that company's repertoire, in
addition to designing three, back-to-back world premieres: Marilyn,
Griffelkin, and Esther, all of which debuted in one week. He has
designed for television dramas, nightclubs, ice-skating shows and
TV newsrooms.
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