Name Dan Covey Role Lighting Designer | ||
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Awards Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production People also search for Tony Cisek, Joe Banno, Jeremy Skid | ||
Dan Covey is a lighting designer and projections designer for the theater, working professionally since 1980.
He studied at West Virginia University from 1976 to 1980. After leaving WVU, he worked for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, for a variety of theaters in Boston, and recently as a lighting designer and theater renovation advisor in Washington, D.C.. He and set designer Tony Cisek worked together on more than 40 Washington productions. They also worked together on two Off-Broadway productions, Beyond Glory (2007), and columbinus (2006).
Awards and nominations
Covey received a 2008 Drammy Award for Lighting Design for Portland Center Stage's new production of Sometimes a Great Notion. This production was featured in American Theatre magazine in September 2008.
He also received the 2001 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for his work on The Tempest at the Folger Theatre.
He has been nominated thirteen other times for the Helen Hayes Award as follows: