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About
Dan Stearns is a New York-based lighting designer for theater and dance. Dan had worked with directors, choreographers, and companies including Kyle Abraham, Tara Ahmadinejad/Piehole, Paul Bedard/Theater in Asylum (resident lighting designer), Jane Comfort, Scott Ebersold, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, LeeSaar The Company, Bebe Miller, Meredith Monk, Nylon Fusion Collective, Tami Stronach Dance, SB Tennent/Built4Collapse, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co., and Pavel Zuštiak/Palissimo.
As an associate designer, Dan has worked with Joe Levasseur and Dan Scully, among others, on productions including Meredith Monk's Indra's Net and Kyle Abraham's Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful, and both at Park Avenue Armory. In addition to his design work, Dan has been the lighting supervisor for A.I.M by Kyle Abraham since 2014, where he has contributed to the development of over thirty new productions; reconstructed archival designs; and toured works by Abraham and guest choreographers to venues including the Kennedy Center, Jacob's Pillow, Sadler's Wells, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Maison de la Danse (Lyon), Kampnagel (Hamburg), HAU1 (Berlin), and Dansens Hus (Stockholm). As a freelance lighting supervisor, Dan has assisted and toured the designs of Joe Levasseur, Dan Scully, Nicole Pearce, Luke Rolls, Bueno Avi-Yona (Bambi), and Natalie Robin, among others. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dan studied theater directing at Playwrights Horizons Theater School and design in the Technical Production Track (now the Production & Design Studio). Among other credits, he has directed productions of William Finn & James Lapine's Falsettos and Charles Mee's The Bacchae 2.1; led the creation of two devised theater works; and assisted directors Rachel Chavkin and Brad Malow. Dan brings this background to his design work, with a strong emphasis on dramaturgy and collaboration to create designs that are integral and essential to the work. |
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Above: Hephaestus, photo by Ryan Prado, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center/Rough Draft Festival