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Jennifer Tipton Biography (1937-)

Born September 11, 1937, in Columbus, OH; daughter of Samuel Ridley (a zoologist/biologist) and Isabel (physicist; maiden name, Hanson) Tipton; married William F. Beaton, August 29, 1976. Addresses: Home: 11 West 18th St., New York, NY 10011.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Lighting designer

Birth Details

September 11, 1937

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Lighting Designer
• Macbeth, American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT, 1967
• The Grab Bag, Astor Place Theatre, New York City, 1968
• Richard II, American Shakespeare Festival, 1968
• Love's Labour's Lost, American Shakespeare Festival, 1968
• Our Town, American National Theater Academy, New York City, 1969
• Horseman, Pass By, off-Broadway production, 1969
• A Night Out, Park Avenue Community Theatre, New York City, 1971
• Dreyfus in Rehearsal, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1974
• The Killdeer, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public/Newman Theater, New York City, 1974
• Macbeth, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1974
• The Tempest, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 1974
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 1975
• The Misanthrope, St. James Theatre, New York City, 1975
• Murder among Friends, Biltmore Theatre, New York City, 1975
• Habeas Corpus, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1975
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1976-1978
• The Baker's Wife, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, then Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, DC, 1976
• Rex, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, 1976
• The Cherry Orchard, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1977
• Agamemnon, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1977
• Landscape of the Body, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1977
• Happy End, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, then Martin Beck Theatre, 1977
• Marco Polo Sings a Solo, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1977
• Runaways, Plymouth Theatre, New York City, 1978
• Drinks before Dinner, Public/Newman Theatre, 1978
• All's Well That Ends Well, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1978
• The Taming of the Shrew, New York Shakespeare Festival, DelacorteTheatre, 1978
• Museum, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1978
• Alice, Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, 1978
• Artichoke, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1979
• Bosoms and Neglect, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1979
• The Goodbye People, Westport Country Theatre, Westport, CT, then Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1979
• Daddy Goodness, Forrest Theatre, 1979
• Justice, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1979
• The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1979
• Julius Caesar, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1979
• Happy Days, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1979
• The Woods, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1979
• Two Part Inventions, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1979
• Dispatches, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public/Cabaret Theatre,1979
• After the Season, Academy Festival Theatre, Lake Forest, IL, 1980
• A Month in the Country, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, 1980
• Lunch Hour, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1980
• Billy Bishop Goes to War, Morosco Theatre, then Theatre de Lys, New York City, later Mark Taper Forum, 1980
• The Sea Gull, Public/Newman Theatre, 1980
• Mother Courage and Her Children, Public Theatre, 1980
• The Pirates of Penzance, New York Shakespeare Festival, DelacorteTheatre, 1980, then Uris Theatre, New York City, later Ahmanson Theatre, LosAngeles, 1981-1982
• Funny Face, Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY, 1980
• Baal, Goodman Theatre, 1980
• The Captivity of Pixie Shedman, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, New York City, 1981
• Sophisticated Ladies, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1981-1983
• Crossing Niagara, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1981
• Rip van Winkle or The Works, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1981
• Zastrozzi, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1982
• Lydie Breeze, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1982
• As You Like It, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 1982
• Falstaff, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles, 1982
• The Wake of Jamey Foster, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1982
• Alice in Wonderland, Virginia Theatre, New York City, 1982-1983
• Jungle Coup, Goodman Theatre, 1983
• The School for Scandal, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA,1983
• Non pasquale, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1983
• Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1983
• Uncle Vanya, La Mama Experimental Theatre Company, New York City,1983, then Classic Stage Company Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1987
• Baby with the Bathwater, Playwrights Horizons, 1983
• Peer Gynt, Guthrie Theatre, 1983
• A Touch of the Poet, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1983
• The Photographer, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1983
• Measure for Measure, American Repertory Theatre, 1984
• The Misanthrope, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA, 1984
• The Ballad of Soapy Smith, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1984
• Hurlyburly, Goodman Theatre, then Promenade Theatre, New York City, later Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1984-1985
• Whoopi Goldberg, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1984-1985
• The Sleep of Reason, Center Stage, Baltimore, MD, 1984
• Six Characters in Search of an Author, American Repertory Theatre,1984
• Endgame, Samuel Beckett Theatre, then Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1984
• King Stag, American Repertory Theatre, 1984
• the CIVIL warS, Act III-E, IV, American Repertory Theatre, 1985
• Singin' in the Rain, Gershwin Theatre, New York City, 1985-1986
• The Juniper Tree, American Repertory Theatre, 1985
• Under Statements, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 1985-1986
• Little Eyolf, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1985
• The Balcony, American Repertory Theatre, 1986
• Alcestis, American Repertory Theatre, 1986
• Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1986
• The Return of Pinocchio, Forty-Seventh Street Theatre, New York City, 1986
• Principia Scriptoriae, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1986
• Hamletmachine, New York University, 1986
• Worstword Ho, Mabou Mines, New York City, 1986
• Paradise Lost, Center Stage, Baltimore, MD, 1987
• The Misanthrope, Guthrie Theatre, 1987-1988
• Leon and Lena (and Lenz), Guthrie Theatre, 1987
• Circumstantial Evidence, The Kitchen, 1987
• The Rimers of Eldritch, off-Broadway production, 1988
• Long Day's Journey into Night, Neil Simon Theatre, New York City,1988
• Ah! Wilderness, Neil Simon Theatre, 1988
• Tannhaeuser, Chicago Lyric Opera, Chicago, IL, 1988
• Waiting for Godot, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 1988
• The Landscape of the Body, Goodman Theater, 1988
• Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Imperial Theatre, New York City, 1989-1990
• The Screens, Guthrie Theatre, 1989
• Lulu, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Berkeley, CA, 1989
• A Walk in the Woods, Yale Repertory Theatre, then Booth Theatre, 1989
• Suspect Terrain, SUNY/Purchase, 1989
• Titus Andronicus, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1989
• The Winter's Tale, Goodman Theatre, 1990
• Alceste, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1990
• Medea, Guthrie Theatre, 1991
• Henry IV, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City, 1991
• Parsifal, Hamburg Opera, 1991
• La bete, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 1991
• In the Summer House, Vivian Beaumount Theatre, 1993
• Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts, Houston Grand Opera, Houston,TX, 1996
• The Iphigenia Cycle, Court Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1997
• Eyes for Consuela, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New York City,1998
• The Rake's Progress, Metropolitan Opera, 1998
• Louise, San Francisco Opera, 1999
• James Joyce's The Dead, Belasco Theatre, 2000, then Los Angeles and Washington, DC
• Wrong Mountain, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 2000
• The Seagull, Delacorte Theatre, 2001
• Also designed lighting for Brace-Up, Wooster Group; Hansel andGretel, Welsh National Opera; Dialogues of the Carmelites, Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM; The Trojan Women, The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC; The First Picture Show, ACT, San Francisco, CA, and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles; Houselights, Wooster Group; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Yale Repertory Theatre; Cosi fan tutte, Glyndebourne;Beatrice and Benedict, Santa Fe Opera; Measure for Measure, Yale School of Drama; The Designated Mourner; North Atlantic, Wooster Group.
• Major Tours
• Lighting Designer
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, U.S. cities, 1977-1978
• Stage Lighting Designer
• Dance Productions
• New York Export: Opus Jazz, Ballets USA, 1958
• Orbs, Holland Festival, 1965
• A Ballet behind the Bridge, Negro Ensemble Company, New York City,1972
• Airs Amnon v'Tamar, Export: OP Jazz, and Triad, Kazuko HirabayashiDance Company, 1972
• Celebration: The Art of Pas de Deux, Jose Limon Dance Company, Spoleto, Italy, 1973
• The Dybbuk, New York City Ballet, New York City, 1974
• The Leaves Are Fading, American Ballet Theatre, 1975
• Don Quixote, American Ballet Theatre, 1976
• The Nutcracker, American Ballet Theatre, 1976
• Push Comes to Shove, Uris Theatre, New York City, 1976
• Esplanade, Big Bertha, and Public Domain, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Billy Rose Theatre, New York City, 1976
• The Four Seasons, New York City Ballet, 1979
• Romeo and Juliet, Hartford Ballet, Hartford, CT, 1980 then JoffreyBallet, 1984 and 1986
• Dances of Albion, Royal Ballet, London, 1980
• The Front Page, Goodman Theatre, 1981
• The Catherine Wheel, Twyla Tharp Dance Company, 1981
• Plenty, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1981
• Svadebka, Netherlands Dance Theatre, The Hague, 1982
• Fire, Joffrey Ballet, New York City, 1982
• Sunset, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1983
• Wiegelied, Netherlands Dans Theatre, 1983
• Bach Partita, American Ballet Theatre, 1983
• The Little Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, 1983
• Square Deal, Joffrey Ballet, 1983
• Fait Accompli, Twyla Tharp, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1984
• Antique Epigraphs, New York City Ballet, 1984
• Brahms/Handel, New York City Ballet, 1984
• In Memory of ... , New York City Ballet, 1985
• Roses, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1985
• Giselle, Royal Ballet, London, 1985
• A Musical Offering, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1986
• Quiet City, New York City Ballet, 1986
• L'histoire du Soldat, Netherlands Dans Theatre, 1986
• In the Upper Room, Twyla Tharp Dance, 1986
• La ronde, National Ballet of Canada, 1987
• Songs/Ives, New York City Ballet, 1988
• The Informer, American Ballet Theatre, 1988
• Swan Lake, American Ballet Theatre, 1988
• To Comfort Ghosts, Dan Wagoner Dancers, 1988
• Speaking in Tongues, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1989
• Tagore, National Ballet of Canada, 1989
• Die Materie, Dutch National Opera, 1989
• Brief Fling, American Ballet Theatre, 1990
• Company B, Paul Taylor Dance Company, City Center, New York City,1991
• Waterbaby Bagatelles, Twyla Tharp Dance, Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, MA, 1995
• Tharp!, Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley, CA, 1996
• Also designed lighting for Grosse sonate; Cascade; FivePart Weather Invention; Roy's Joy; The Storyyteller, Australian Ballet; Canto pianto; Dandelion Wine; Fiends Angelical; The Beethoven Seventh; El trilogy.
• Television Appearances
• Eye on Dance, 1988

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• International Dictionary of Modern Dance, St. James Press, 1998

Periodicals

• Dance Magazine, February, 1996, p. 88
• Opera News, January 17, 1998, p. 16
• Smithsonian, September, 1991, p. 104
• Theatre Crafts, April, 1983; October, 1990