Jennifer Tipton - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	11-September-1937
Place of Birth	Columbus (Ohio, United States of America, Area code 614)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Lighting Designer, Teacher
Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater and opera. In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University. While performing as a dancer and rehearsal mistress, she noticed the importance of lighting, and studied dance lighting with Thomas Skelton, becoming his assistant. Her first lighting design for Broadway was in 1969 for Our Town, and her most recent in 2013 for The Testament of Mary. Among her many awards and nominations, she won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for lighting Andrei Serban's production of The Cherry Orchard and the 1989 Tony Award for lighting Jerome Robbins' Broadway. She also has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design twice. She is known for her designs for dance and is the principal lighting designer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Choreographers she has worked with include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jiri Kylian, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Dan Wagoner and Shen Wei. Tipton has designed lighting for the American Ballet Theatre since A Soldierâ€™s Tale. She designed the lighting for Baryshnikov's production of The Nutcracker, both for the stage and for television.

Awards by Jennifer Tipton

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jennifer Tipton.

2013

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play	The Testament of Mary

1998

Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement	(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)

1997

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production	Dance of Death

1991

Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance

Honored for : In The Upper Room

(For choreography and lighting of The American Ballet Theatre's In The Upper Room at the London Coliseum)

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance	In The Upper Room For choreography and lighting of The American Ballet Theatre's In The Upper Room at the London Coliseum
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical	La Bête

1989

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical

Honored for : Jerome Robbins' Broadway

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical	Jerome Robbins' Broadway

1987

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Worstward Ho

1986

Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

(Theatre Arts)

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Hamlet

1985

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Whoopi Goldberg

1981

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Lunch Hour
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical	Sophisticated Ladies

1979

Obie Award for Design	(Public theatre, for sets and lighting)

1977

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Honored for : The Cherry Orchard

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Honored for : For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical

Honored for : The Cherry Orchard

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	The Cherry Orchard
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical	The Cherry Orchard

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