Does this mean that we are to carry images of poetry and vision and high passion in our minds while we are shouting out orders to electricians on ladders in light rehearsals? Yes, this is what it means.
Robert Edmond Jones, The Dramatic Imagination 1941
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John Carr was the Lighting Designer for the Wesleyan Theater Department and the Dance Department from 1984 through 2014 and is the past Theater Department Chair. Wesleyan highlights include supervising the production and designing the lighting for the Department's sold out performance of MASTER PETER at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and designing lighting for SKIN, MEAT, BONE, by Robert Wilson and Alvin Lucier. He has designed Dance Lighting for Susan Foster, Douglas Dunn, Deborah Hay, Richard Bull, Dances for 2 and Patricia Beaman. His designs for Toronto based Hari Krishnan/inDance premiers have been performed in the U.S.A. and internationally, including our last pre-Covid performance at La MaMa in New York City. Theater projects include lighting for Hartford Stage, The Folger Theatre, National Players, The Shubert Theater. International designs include DEATH AND THE MAIDEN at The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, U.K., CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and BURY ME UNDER THE BASEBOARD at the Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest, Romania.
All photos by John Carr except for Death and the Maiden.