Rick Fisher

Rick Fisher
Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Known for Lighting design
Awards Tony Award for Best Lighting Design; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Rick Fisher is an American lighting designer, known for his work with Stephen Daldry on Billy Elliot the Musical and An Inspector Calls. He is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Dickinson College, but has been based in the UK for the last 30 years.[1]

He has done the lighting design for many opera companies, including Covent Garden and New York City Opera.[1] He has been designing for the Santa Fe Opera for seven seasons; for the 2007 season he did three productions.[2]

Fisher received the Live Design Outstanding Designer of The Year in 2008.[1] He is the chairman of the British Association of Lighting Designers.[3]

Selected stage credits

Awards

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "LDI Speaker Spotlight: Rick Fisher", livedesignonline.com, October 8, 2008
  2. Lampert-Gréaux, Ellen. "With Rick Fisher and Duane Schuler at The Santa Fe Opera", livedesignonline.com, August 1, 2007
  3. Biography leefiltersusa.com, accessed May 15, 2009
  4. "World Stage Design Exceeds Expectations" usitt.org, accessed May 15, 2009
  5. Article on 2003 Quadrennial www.etnow.com, accessed May 15, 2009
  6. Olivier Awards, 1998 officiallondontheatre.co.uk, accessed May 15, 2009
  7. Olivier Awards, 1994 officiallondontheatre.co.uk, accessed May 15, 2009

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