Scott Bolman

Lighting Design

Scott is a Brooklyn-based designer and educator working in a diverse array of performance mediums, including theater, dance, music and opera.

His work has been seen in New York at the Lincoln Center Festival, Performa Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Classic Stage Company, FIAF, The Kitchen, Prototype Festival, The Women's Project, Judson Church, Abrons Arts Center, The Wild Project and others.

Regionally, he has worked at venues that include Goodspeed Opera, Studio Theater, Playmakers Repertory Company, Trinity Repertory Theater, LA Opera/REDcat and Chautauqua Theater Company.

International work includes Failing to Levitate... (Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Athens), MIDNIGHT (Radialsystem V, Berlin), Waiting for Godot, Antigone (Benaki Museum, Athens) and Darkling (Melkweg, Amsterdam)

His long history of collaborations with Robert Wilson include Der Sandmann (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus),  Zinnias (Peak Performances), The Odyssey (National Theater of Greece) and KOOL (Guggenheim NYC). He will also be working on the upcoming Wilson production of Paola Prestini's new opera Two Oars (Zagreb, Croatia, 2018).

Scott has served as an adjunct professor at Colorado College and Montclair State University, a teaching artist at the Brown-Trinity Rep Consortium and a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Drama and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Scott is a founding member of Wingspace design collective.

Selected Projects