Rigoletto

Steve Woods


Lighting  Designer

United Scenic Artists of America 829 NYC
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, 829 NYC, 540 LA

Meadows Schools of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
PO Box 750356
Dallas, Texas 75275
214-768-3816 FAX 214-768-1136


stevew@smu.edu

 

 

           International work has taken him to Berlin, Moscow, London, Prague, Athens  and  dozens of countries around the world. 

           His work in the US has included New York City: The Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Juilliard, Theatre for A New Audience,

           The Joyce Theatre, The York Theatre, Riverside and Summer Stage.  Regional credits include:  The Shakespeare Theatre,

          Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Kennedy Center, Dallas Theater Center, Heritage Repertory Theatre,

          Theatre Virginia, Spoleto Festival, Jacobs Pillow, American Dance  Festival, Cumberland County Playhouse,

           and Utah Festival Opera. In Dance he is a frequent  designer for  the Jose Limon Dance Company and  the National Ballet of Mexico,  

           he has designed works  by Alwin Nikolais, Phyllis Lamhut, Garth Fagan, John Cranko, Donald McKayle, and Daniel  Nagrin.

          Television credits include:  PBS, MTV, Showtime, BBC and ESPN.

 

    International




     Jose Limon Dance Company (New York City, Artistic Director Carla Maxwell)

Lighting Designer for both NYC season (Off-Broadway, Joyce Theatre, Juilliard, Riverside, and the Lincoln Center), National Kennedy Center, Chicago, Los Angeles,

Jacobs PillowAmerican Dance Festival) as well as International dates.  Designer to  works by Alwin Nikolais, Phyllis Lamhut, Daniel Nagrin, Doris Humphrey, Garth Fagan,

Donald McKayle, and Carlos Orta.

 

 

        Compania Nacional de Danza (Mexico City)

 

               Performances take place at El Palacio de Bellas Artes.
               Choreographers include, John Cranko, Mauricio Wainrot, and Nelle Happe.

 

               Eugene Onegin
               Romeo and Juliet
               The Firebird
               Esquina Bajan

        Blind Lemon Blues (a new musical)
 

                World Music Theatre Festival                                                   The Netherlands
                Festival Blues Sur Scene                                                          Paris, France

                Festival de L'Imaginaire,Masion Des Cultures du Monde        Paris, France

                Forum Meyrin                                                                           Geneva, Switzerland

            

Theatre

 

New York City
 

River to River Festival

 

    Masters of American Dance:  Jose Limon
 

York Theatre Company

 

    Blind Lemon Blues-Off Broadway

 

Guggenheim Museum Works & Process

 

    Blind Lemon Blues

  

Theatre for A New Audience (Artistic Director, Jeffrey Horowitz)


    Henry V (St Clements, Lucille Lortel Award for best Off-Broadway Revival)



Central Park Summer Stage

 

    Blind Lemon Blues
Jo
Jose Limon Dance Companyse Limon Dance Comopnay
Regional

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts


 
  Jose Limon Dance Company
   Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, directed by John Dennis
    The Balcony Scene, directed by John Dennis                


The Shakespeare Theatre (Artistic Director, Michael Kahn)

    Romeo and Juliet

Dallas Theater Center
(Artistic Director, Richard Hamburger)

   Wit
   Dreamlandia
    Rockabye (The Big D Festival of the Unexpected)

 

Undermain Theatre  (Artistic Director Katheerine Owens)

 

 

    Greendale by Neil Young  

    The Snow Queen by Lynn Alvarez

Georgia Shakespeare Festival
(Artistic Director, Richard Garner)
 

    Shrew, the Holiday Musical

Shakespeare Dallas

 

    Henry IV Part 1
    Henry IV Part 2

   
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged

Sage Theatre Group
(Artistic Director, Cecil O'Neal)


    Macbeth
 

Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey

    As You Like It
    Ghosts


Theatre Virginia (Artistic Director, George Black)

Wit



 
  Private Lives


Cumberland County Playhouse
(Artistic Director, James Crabtree)

Drama

    One Flew Over the CouKoo's Nest

    Quilters     
    The Immigrant
    The Tempest
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Foxfire

    Romeo and Juliet
    The Women of Troy
    The Tempest
    The Grapes of Wrath
    The Foreigner  
    Children of a Lesser God
    Mornings at Seven
    Anastasia



Musicals

    Guys and Dolls

    The Mikado

    Carousel
    Grease
    1776
    Aint' Life Grand (premiere)
    West Side Story

    The Music Man

    Crazy for You
    My Fair Lady
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    all i really need to know i learned in Kindergarten
    Godspell

Blind Lemon

    Smoke on the Mountain
    Meet Me In St. Louis
    Bye Bye Birdie
    The Secret Garden (American premiere)
    Cotton Patch Gospel
    Pippin
    Brand New Beat (premiere)
    Tennessee Strings (premiere)



Kitchen Dog Thea
tre (Artistic Director, Dan Day)

    Happy Days
    Some Explicit Polaroid's
    The Act of Passion


Heritage Repertory Theatre


    Noises Off
    Paris Bound

    The Diary of Anne Frank

    I'm Not Rappaport
    Dracula
    Brighton Beach Memoirs
    I Do, I Do
    The Importance of Being Earnest

A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Little Foxes
    Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
    Tartuffe


Pennsylvania Centre Stage
(Artistic Director, Carole Brandt)

 
   The Song Is Kern, directed by Neal Kenyon


Advent Theatre
(Artistic Director, Wesley Brustad)

    The Mousetrap
    All My Sons
    A Christmas Carol
    Antigone
    Period of Adjustment
    The Physicist


Swine Palace Productions
 (Artistic Director, Barry Kyle)

 
From The Mississippi Delta
   Pump Boys and Dinettes
   Keely and Du 

   Macbeth                    
   Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
   A Confederacy of Dunces
   All The Kings Men
   Tent Meeting
   Good 
   Tartuffe 

    Dance

        The Texas Ballet
 

Romeo and Juliet


     
          Romeo and Juliet

        American Repertory Dance
In performance at San Jose Repertory Theatre.
                    Bonnie Oda and Janet Eilbert, Co-Directors.


                    Witch Dance by  Mary Wigman
                    Brahms' Waltzes by Ruth St. Denis
                    Ceremony for Three by Bella Lewitzky
                    Tenant of the Street by Eve Gentry


        San Jose Cleveland Ballet
, In performance at San Jose Repertory Theatre.

       
         Rivulet

 

        Limon West Dance Project

   
                La Malinche

        
Civic Ballet Companies:


                    Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre
                    Nashville Ballet
                    Knoxville Ballet
                    Appalachian Ballet
                    Oak Ridge Ballet
                    Sidewalk Dance Thea
tre

        Representative ballets include:


                    Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee, Sleeping  Beauty

 

    Opera

        Utah Festival Opera

 

        Knoxville Opera Company
                      
  (Work includes over 20 productions and 3 PBS telecasts)


                Baton Rouge Opera
                Louisiana Opera Company

The Moor's Pavane

 

Rigoletto

    Television

The Secret Garden

 



                   Various events ranging from music videos to opera to sporting events.
                    My work has been telecast on PBS-MTV-ESPN-Showtime-BBC-TNN-CNN

 

      Industrials


                Clients include:
            Aveda-Paul Mitchell-Kawasaki-Neill Corporation-Magnavox

 

         University

 

            Southern Methodist University, Associate Professor, Head of Design/Theatre

            Louisiana State  University, Associate Professor of Theatre

 

 

    stevew@smu.edu

 

 

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