HEATHER CARSON

RESUME

Born 1960, Los Angeles
Lives and works in L.A.

Education:

1997 Skowhegan Art Program

Awards and Scholarships:

2007 Downtown Artist Grant
2006 The Durfee Foundation
2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist's Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures
1999 Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts
1998-9 Rome Prize in Design Arts
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist's Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures
1997 Fellowship, Skowhegan Art Program

Solo Shows:

2007 Light Action: light/CONCENTRIC, Phantom Galleries L.A.

Group Shows:

2007 Light Action: light/CONCENTRIC, Brewery Artwalk, L.A.
2006 Light Action: light/HANGAR, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
2005 Light Action: light/CUBED, Brewery Artwalk, L.A.
2003 Light Action: inSIDE/outSIDE, The ADC Gallery, Nyc
1999 Light Action: light/Orchard (St.), Tenement Museum, Nyc
1999 Light Action: light/Shaft
1999 Light Action: black/light/night/white/garden, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1999 Light Action: triangolo/light/night/garden
1998 Light Action: light/House, Smallwood, NY
1997 Light Action: Lightfall, The L. C. Bates Museum Hinckley, Maine
1997 Light Action: push/Pull, Skowhegan, Maine
1997 Light Action: Octagonal Plane, Skowhegan, Maine
1996 Light Action: stop/GO! (for Elizabeth Streb), permanent installation, nyc
1995 Light Action: up/Down The Geffen Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles (MOCA)

LIGHTING DESIGNS 1979 - 2007

THEATRE:

Baltimore's Center Stage:

CITIZEN RENO: Reno (Set & Lighting design) Director: Tina Landau

Buffalo Studio Arena:

THE NORMAL HEART: Larry Kramer Director: Donald Driver

Cambridge Theatre Company, England:

LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: Eugene O'Neill Director: Laurence Boswell

Cameri Theatre, Israel:

CAN'T CHOOSE: Hanoch Levine - Premiere Director Hanoch Levine

Citizen s Theatre, Glasgow:

THE COUNTRY WIFE:Wycherley Director: Antony McDonald

Crossroads Theatre:

THE LOVE SPACE DEMANDS: Ntozake Shange -Premier, Director: Talvin Wilks

Drama Dept.:

THE DARK KALAMAZOO: Oni Faida Lampley, Director: Tom Prewitt

En Garde Arts, Nyc:

TERMINAL BAR: Paul Selig, Director: Michael Engler

Foundry Theatre, Nyc:

LIPSTICK TRACES Director Shawn Sides

Franklin Furnace, Nyc:

3 UNNATURAL ACTS: Dick Zigun, Director: Becky Harrison

Gate Theatre, London:

ELIZABETH II, Director: David Fielding

Hartford Stage, CT:

WOYZECK: Buchner, Director: Richard Foreman
PEARLS FOR PIGS: Foreman, Director: Richard Foreman

H.E.R.E., Nyc:

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES: Eve Ensler

The Kitchen, Nyc:

JIMMY CARTER WAS A DEMOCRAT: Rinne Groff, Director: Michael Sexton

Lamb's Theatre Company, Nyc:

THE GIFTS OF THE MAGI:
EPISODE 26: Howard Korder

McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Nyc:

THEY WROTE THAT?:Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Director: Richard Maltby, Jr.
THE TRICKY PART: Martin Moran, Director: Seth Barrish

Music Theatre Group:

LOVE & SCIENCE: Richard Foreman, Director: Richard Foreman

New York Shakespeare Festival:
VENUS: Suzan Lori-Parks, Director: Richard Foreman
YOU COULD BE HOME NOW: Ann Magnuson, Director: David Schweizer
IN THE JUNGLE OF CITIES: Brecht, Director: Anne Bogart
LARGO DESOLATO: Havel, Director: Richard Foreman
PEOPLE MAGAZINE SALUTES JOSEPH PAPP, Director: Richard Maltby, Jr,
A CLASSIC EVENING FOR AIDS RESEARCH, Director: Richard Maltby, Jr.

Ontological-Hysteric Theatre: Richard Foreman - writer, director,designer

EDDIE GOES TO POETRY CITY - LaMama, Nyc
LAVA - Performing Garage, Nyc
FILM IS EVIL: RADIO IS GOOD - NYU
MY HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER

P.S. 122:

JIMMY CARTER WAS A DEMOCRAT: Rinne Groff, Director: Michael Sexton
GO, GO, GO, Director: Anne Bogart

Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford & London):

MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Director: Michael Boyd
HENRY VI, Parts 1, 2, &3, Director: Michael Boyd
RICHARD III, Director: Michael Boyd

Solari Theatre:

AN EVENING WITH QUENTIN CRISP (LA Premiere)

South Street Theatre:

IN THE BOOM BOOM ROOM: Rabe

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds UK:

THE WASP FACTORY: Ian Banks, Director: Malcolm Sutherland

Yale Repertory Theatre:

VENUS: Suzan Lori-Parks, Director: Richard Foreman

OPERA:

American Music Theatre Festival: CASINO PARADISE, (World Premiere, Director: David Alden

Australian Opera: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, Director: Francisco Negrin, (also televised for ABC)

Canadian Opera Company: NORMA:, Director: James Robinson

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, DON GIOVANNI, COSI FAN TUTTE: Directors: Christopher & David Alden

Choregies d Orange, France: AIDA:Verdi, Director: Charles Roubaud, (also televised for FR3)

Dallas Opera: JENUFA, Director: Francesca Zambello

Edinburgh Festival: VISITATIO SEPULCHRI & BUSQUEDA, World Premiere, Dir: Francisco Negrin

English National Opera:
INQUEST OF LOVE, World Premiere, Director: David Pountney
TURANDOT, Director:Christopher Alden

Geneva Opera:
IDOMENEO, (also televised for Swiss Television), Director: Christopher Alden
BILLY BUDD, Director: Francesca Zambello

Glimmerglass Opera: RAPE OF LUCRETIA, Director: Christopher Alden

Guild Hall, London: HEURE ESPAGNOLE/LA COLOMBE, Director: Francisco Negrin

Kennedy Center: ROMULUS HUNT: Carly Simon, Director: Francesca Zambello

Kentucky Opera: THE SOLDIER'S TALE: Stravinsky, Director: Christopher Alden

La Monnaie, Brussels: INQUEST OF LOVE, Director: David Pountney

Long Beach Opera:
HOPPER'S WIFE: Stewart Wallace (World Premiere), Director: Christopher Alden
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES, Director: Christopher Alden
LA VIE PARISIENNE, Director: Christopher Alden
DIE WEISSE ROSE: (West Coast Premiere, Director: Peter Reichenbach
LA RONDINE, Director: Hugo de Ana
ORFEO, Director: Christopher Alden

Maggio Musicale, Florence: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, Director: Richard Foreman

Metropolitan Opera Guild: ROMULUS HUNT:(World Premiere), Director: Francesca Zambello

New Israeli Opera:
FAUST, Director: David Alden
THE BARTERED BRIDE, Director: Michael McCaffery
SWEENEY TODD, Director: David Alden

New York City Opera:
MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE: Tippett (NY Premiere), Director: Francesca Zambello
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Britten, Director: Christopher Alden

Opera Comique, Paris: DOCTEUR MIRACLE, DJAMILEH, DON PROCOPIO, Dir: Christopher Alden

Opera de Lille, France: DON GIOVANNI, Director: Richard Foreman

Opera North, England: ARABELLA, Director: Francisco Negrin

Royal Opera of Denmark: ORPHEE, Director: Francisco Negrin

San Francisco Opera: HARVEY MILK, (West Coast Premiere), Director: Christopher Alden

Seattle Opera: DON GIOVANNI, Director: Christopher Alden

Scottish Opera:
TURANDOT, Director: Christopher Alden
MAGIC FLUTE, Director: Martin Duncan
FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE (Premiere), Director: Christopher Alden

Welsh National Opera: TURANDOT, Director: Christopher Alden

DANCE:

ELIZABETH STREB RINGSIDE:

Resident Designer 1983-1999 including -

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage,
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Joyce Theatre, The Kitchen, Walker Art Center, LACE,
Virginia Museum and Teatro Vascello, Rome.

LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY: Cannes International Festival de Danse - premiere
BALLET HISPANICO: Jacob's Pillow, Mass.
CODANCECO: Prospect Park Bandshell
BALLETFORE: Riverside Dance Festival, 92nd St. YMHA
RACHEL LAMPERT: Portland Stage, Main
BERTRAM ROSS: Riverside Dance Festival

CONCERT:

PET SHOP BOYS PERFORMANCE WORLD TOUR 1991: Director: David Alden
BETTY: The Bottom Line, New York
JOSE FELICIANO: GUITARRA MIA, Puerto Rico

FILM/VIDEO:

DV: Concert Lighting for a televised documentary on the life of Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rico by Banco Popular
PET SHOP BOYS PERFORMANCE WORLD TOUR 1991: Director: David Alden
Feature Film: QUEEN OF DIAMONDS Line Producer and Lighting Designer. LA Times Top Ten Ind. films of 1990, Director: Nina Menkes
Swiss Television: Adaptation of BILLY BUDD (Geneva Opera) for television
France 3: Adaptation of AIDA (Choregies d Orange) for television
Australian Broadcasting Commission: Adaptation of LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (Australian Opera) for television
PBS New Television: IF I COULD FLY I WOULD FLY Dance/Videocollaboration w/ video artist Mary Lucier and Choreographer Elizabeth Streb
PBS Alive from off Center: MASS Dance/Video collaboration w/ Mary Lucier & Elizabeth Streb
TV Commercial: Daily News - HBO Studios
Print Ad: Canadian Club:People, Time, Vogue

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1977-86 Assisted on over 40 Broadway (Plenty, Hay Fever, Slab Boys, The Golden Age, Snoopy, Foxfire, Copperfield, Nine) and Off Broadway shows (Extremities, The Nest of the Woodgrouse, Virginia, Monday after the Miracle, My Sister in this House) primarily with Arden Fingerhut (7 years). Also, Paulie Jenkins, F. Mitchell Dana, Roger Morgan, Ken Billington, Victor En Yu Tan and Richard Nelson, among others.

Bibliography:

Dorbian, Iris “Teaching an Endangered Art”, Stage Directions, October 2003
Barbour, David "Heather Carson to Head Lighting Program at Penn State", Entertainment Design, October 2002
Barbour, David "Centerline Q&A", Entertainment Design, October 2001
Barbour, David "A Space for Tragedy: LD Heather Carson explains her controversial approach to lighting opera" Lighting Dimensions, October 2001
Napolean, Davi "Three-Ring History Cycle: RSC's Henry VI Tetralogy Comes to Michigan", Entertainment Design, August 2001
Wasserstein, Wendy "Light Fantastic" Garden Design October 1999
Barbour, David "Forest of Night" Lighting Dimensions, September 1999
Barbour, David "Judgement Day" Lighting Dimensions April 1999
Orskov, Lise "Art Crash Symposiet", Lys ( Danish Lighting Magazine), November, Nr. 3 1998
Barbour, David "Heather Carson wins Rome Prize", Lighting Dimensions, April
Orskov, Lise "Art Crash Symposiet", Art Crash Journal No. 2
Brennan, Mary "Finally given a chance to shine", The Scottish Herald, February 25th 1997
Hogan, Jane "The speed of light", Lighting Dimensions
Falvey, Jennifer "Light of her Life", The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, September 21st
Adamson, Judy "Negrin puts his spin on Hoffmann's tales", The Northern Herald, Sydney, Sept. 19th
"Heather Carson dictar curso de illuminacion en altos de Chavon", Listen Diario, Santo Domingo, July
Pesta, Abigail "Intuition and Integrity: LD Heather Carson blazes her own trail through the worlds of Opera, Dance, and Theatre Lighting", Lighting Dimensions, November 1994
Pesta, Abigail "Don't Look Down", Lighting Dimensions, November 1993

Teaching:

UCSD, Theatre Department: Visiting Instructor
Winter 2007 The Phenomenology of Light
California Institute of the Arts: Faculty
Fall 2004-Spring 2006 Head of Lighting
Pennsylvania State University: Associate Professor
Fall 2002 -Spring 2004 Head MFA Lighting Program
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Deptartment of Design: Adjunct Faculty
Fall 2000 - 2002 Lighting Design III and Thesis advisor
Fall 1999 Visiting Artist Lecture
Spring 1999 Portfolio reviews
Fall 1997 Master Class (Gradaute level)
Design 4 - special project (Graduate Level)
Fall 1995 Visiting Artist Lecture
Bard College: Adjunct Faculty
Spring 2001 Visual Imagination for the Stage
Smith College: Faculty, Assistant Professor
Spring 2000 Lighting Design II
Light and Digital Design
Fall1999 Lighting Design I
Art of Design
Southern California Institute of Architecture: Faculty
Fall 1998 Light Action: The Intersection of Light, Art & Architecture
Spring 1998 The Phenomenology of Light"
UCSD, Theatre Department: Visiting Instructor
Fall 1998 Lighting Design (Graduate level)
California Institute of the Arts:
Fall 1998 Visiting Artist Lecture
Parson's School of Design, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic: Visiting Instructor
Summer 1996 Lighting Design
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Visiting Instructor
Winter 1996 Master Class in Lighting Design
Ecole Superieure de Theatre National de Strasbourg, France: Visiting Instructor
Spring 1994 Master Class in Lighting Design for Set Designers
School of Visual Arts:
Fall 1995 Visiting Artist Lecture
Rutger's University:
Fall 1995 Visiting Artist Lecture

Panels/Lectures:

11/03 Lighting Dimensions International “ Lights of the Roundtable” – Group Panel
9/03 Parsons School of Design - “Light Action: The Intersection of Light, Art & Architecture”, Guest Lecturer
9/02 Carnegie Mellon University - Wats:on? Festival, Keynote speech
11/01 "Transatlantic Lighting" - Lighting Dimensions International
Panel with Ken Billington, Sarah Sidman, Paul Anderson, and Chris Parry
5/00 "Theatricality of Space" - Wesleyan University, Guest Speaker
Lecture series w/ Lo-Tek Architecture, digital artist Jeremy Blake, set designer
4/98 Art Crash Symposium - Aarhus, Denmark,
Light, New Technology in Art and The Collision between Art Forms, guest speaker
11/94 Lighting Dimensions International,
European Project Portfolio panel with Chris Parry, Marc Brickman, Rick Fisher
Using Alternative Light Sources, with Steven Poster, Eric Schwartzman, Charlie Davidson, Howard Eaton