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\"BeverlyBeverly Emmons (Lighting Designer) has designed for Broadway, Off-B\u2019way and Regional Theater, Dance and Opera both in the USA and abroad. Her Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Stephen Sondheim\u2019s Passion, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, A Day in Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, The Dresser, Piaf and Doonesbury. Her lighting of Amadeus won a Tony award., Off B\u2019way she lit Vagina Monologues and has designed many productions with Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. For Robert Wilson, she has designed lighting for productions spanning 13 years; most notably in America, Einstein on the Beach and the Civil Wars Pt V. Ms Emmons\u2019 designs for dance have included works for Lucinda Child, Trisha Brown, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. She has been awarded seven Tony nominations, the 1976 Lumen award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, and a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting, and several Maharam\/American Theater Wing Design Awards. In 2024 she was awarded the Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design by the Henry Hewes Critics Association.\u00a0 Additionally, she has created and curated TheLightingArchive.org a website that makes historical lighting documents accessible to students and scholars on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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