LIGHTING DESIGN PROJECTS

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​To The Bone

Lighting design by Stephanie Anne Johnson for To The Bone written by Lisa Ramirez, Director: Michael Socrates Moran, Set Designer: Giulio Cesare Perrone, Set Designer and Builder: Marcel Castanchoa, Ubuntu Theater, 2017 Season.

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REVIEW: “To The Bone Hits Home at Ubuntu Theater, Oakland. The striking and innovative lighting by Stephanie Anne Johnson make the bare circle into an effective theater in the round.”  — Robert Gardner – Theatrius - June 4, 2017

​TheatreFIRST closes its first season of in-house new works with the world premiere of HeLa -- by Lauren Gunderson and Geetha Reddy, dramaturgy by Lisa Marie Rollins, and directed by Evren Odcikin.

​HeLa evokes and explores the story of Henrietta Lacks, the African-American woman whose hard life and young death produced the most powerful line of immortal cells the world has ever seen. This lyrical theatrical mash up will explore the science, legacy, tragedy, poetry, and universal truths that one woman’s story and biology can offer the world.

​“In remembering Henrietta Lacks as more than just a bunch of cells, “HeLa” posits that it’s important that we name her, but also that stories and memories are part of what allow her, or any of us, to become fully human. In so doing, the show proffers a subtle metatheatrical tribute to the power of performance itself. Theater doesn’t just tell us good stories; it testifies that we existed and that we meant something.”

-- Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle

“There’s a cumulative power to this story that feels both intimate and epic, another chapter in our history of taking that tells an essential story that should keep being told.”

— Chad Jones, Theater Dogs

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The Breach
​Produced by Cultural Odyssey.  Performers: Idris Ackamoor, Rhodessa Jones, Johanna Haigood -- Buriel Clay Theater, San Francisco, CA - 2010

Unsing The Song
Performed by Anne Bluenthenthal and Dancers at Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA 2006

REVIEW: "….its blood red backdrop alternating with projected images of shoes and bones, amidst streams of asymmetrical white cloth torn like shrouds hung-out-to-dry add to the immense emotional impact of the evening…." — Linda Ayres-Frederick, San Francisco Bay Times  -- The Healing Arts: Speaking The Unspeakable, Surviving Genocide, Unsing The Song, March 2006

Jesus Christ Superstar
Director -- Rufus Collins, Gent, Belgium --1984

REVIEW: " 1. "Mainly the setting is made by the smart and brilliant lighting."  2. "While the whiplashes from 1 to 39 are being counted, the light slowly changes from white to dark red so that the mass of people in front of the gate start to look more frightening." — Anita Lowenhardt, De Trouw  -- Rufus Collins' Makes a Rock Opera Into a Punk Opera Amsterdam, Holland, November, 1984

The Kingdom
Director -- Rufus Collins,  Amsterdam, Holland — 1985