Natasha Katz is a lighting designer for the theatre, dance, and opera. She won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play for her work on Long Day’s Journey Into Night. She has 6 Tony Awards (3 plays, 3 musicals). Among her over 60 Broadway credits include designs for An American in Paris (2015 Tony Award), Aladdin, The Glass Menagerie (2014 Tony Award), Motown: The Musical, Once (2012 Tony Award), The Little Mermaid, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2007 Tony Award), Tarzan, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Aida (2000 Tony Award), Twelfth Night, and Gypsy. In the world of dance, Katz is a frequent collaborator with choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, with projects including Tryst, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Winter’s Tale. Her film work includes Barrymore starring Christopher Plummer and Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth.
Listen to Natasha enlighten us all with her thoughts on design and the theater including:
- How a simple internship unexpectedly lit the way to her career.
- What she writes in scripts when she reads them for the first time.
- Why she and all lighting designers have to be chameleons.
- The difference between working for a corporation like Disney and an independent Producer like, oh, I don’t know . . . me.
- What Producers and Authors need to know before hiring a designer.
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