Beverly Emmons has designed lighting for Broadway, Theatre, Dance and Opera. Her credits include the Broadway productions “Annie Get Your Gun”, “Jekyll & Hyde”, “The Heiress”, “Passion”, “The Elephant Man” and “Amadeus”, for which she won a Tony Award. Her Off-Broadway work includes “The Vagina Monologues” and several works by Joseph Chaiken. She has worked at the Kennedy Center,
Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage and at the Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis.
For Robert Wilson, she has lit eight productions, including “Einstein on the Beach”. In addition to her collaborations with Lucinda Childs, she has designed lighting for choreographers Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham. For her work, Beverly Emmons has been honoured with seven Tony Nominations, the 1976 Lumen Prize, 1984 and 1986 Bessie Awards, a 1980 Obie Award for Distinguished Lighting and several Maharam/American Theater Wing Design Awards.
As of: November 2024