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.

Recent credits: Moment (Studio Theatre), MIDNIGHT (RADIALSYSTEM V, Berlin), Fortuna Desperata (Performa 2015), The Chandelier (Celebrity Cruise Lines), A Wonderful Life (Goodspeed Opera) and piece.piece (Gibney Dance).

Selected theater: Marcus Gardley's The Box (The Foundry), Intimate Apparel, The May Queen, The Romeo & Juliet Project, Fifty Ways (Chautauqua Theater Company), Antigone (Greek Festival, Athens), Urban Renewal (FIAF, La Cité International), Barefoot in the Park, Veronica Meadows (Trinity Rep).

Selected opera and concert: Missy Mazzoli's Songs from the Uproar (The Kitchen), Darcy James Argue's Brooklyn Babylon (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Holland Festival), Jonathan Berger's Visitations (Prototype Festival) and John Musto's Later the Same Evening (Manhattan School of Music).

Selected dance work: New Dance Partners (Kansas City) with Robert Moses, Amy Seiwart and Penny Saunders, Shen Wei's performance for Zhang Huan's Q Confucious exhibit (Rockbund Museum, Shanghai), the DJ Spooky/Corey Baker collaboration Coup de Foudre (Guggenheim NYC), Shen Wei Dance Arts' Map (Lincoln Center Festival) and Héléne Lesterlin's Darkling (Cinedans Festival in Amsterdam).

With Robert Wilson: Zinnias (Peak Performances/Nuits des Fourvière), The Odyssey (National Theater of Greece/Piccolo Teatro di Milano) and KOOL (Guggenheim NYC/Akademie der Kunst, Berlin). He will also be working on the upcoming Wilson productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors (Peak Performances, 2016), Der Sandman (Dusseldorf Festspielhaus, 2017) and Paola Prestini's new opera Two Oars (Bleach Festival, Australia, 2018).

Scott graduated Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. 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.

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