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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Lighting Designer

Spouse
  
Graciela Daniele

Role
  
Lighting Designer

Name
  
Jules Fisher


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Born
  
November 12, 1937 (age 86) (
1937-11-12
)
Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Education
  
Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering

Parents
  
Abraham Fisher, Anne Davidson

Awards
  
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical

Similar People
  
Peggy Eisenhauer, Graciela Daniele, Beverly Emmons, George C Wolfe, Paul Tazewell

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Jules Fisher (born November 12, 1937) is an American lighting designer and producer. He is credited with lighting designs for more than 300 productions over the course of his 50-year career in Broadway and off-Broadway shows, as well extensive work in film, ballet, opera, television, and rock and roll concert tours. He has been nominated 20 times for Tony Awards (as a lighting designer) and won nine Tony awards for Lighting Design, more than any other lighting designer.

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Biography

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Fisher was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the son of Anne (Davidson) and Abraham Fisher, a retailer. He is a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology. He is married to choreographer-director Graciela Daniele. He has been in a professional partnership with lighting designer Peggy Eisenhauer since 1985, and they formed Third Eye Ltd, a firm specializing in entertainment and theatre lighting. He is also a principal in the theatre consulting firm Fisher Dachs Associates, architectural lighting firm Fisher Marantz Stone, and teaches at The New School. Fisher was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2013.

Stage work (selected)

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  • Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
  • High Spirits (1964)
  • The Subject Was Roses (1964)
  • Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)
  • You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967)
  • The Man in the Glass Booth (1968)
  • Hair (1968, revival 1977)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)
  • Soon (1971)
  • Pippin (1972)
  • The Iceman Cometh (1973)
  • Liza (Special) (1974)
  • Chicago (1975)
  • Beatlemania (1977)
  • La Cage aux Folles (1983)

    • with Peggy Eisenhauer

    Jules Fisher A Conversation With Peggy Eisenhauer

  • Song and Dance (1985)
  • Rags (1986)
  • Legs Diamond (1988)
  • Ragtime (1998)
  • Gypsy (2003)
  • School of Rock (2003)
  • Assassins (2004)
  • The Ritz (2007)
  • 9 to 5 (2008)
  • Lucky Guy (2013)

    • Concert work

    Fisher has worked with many popular musicians on their concerts and tours including:

  • The Rolling Stones
  • KISS
  • David Bowie
  • Parliament-Funkadelic
  • The Who's Tommy
  • Crosby, Stills and Nash
  • Whitney Houston
  • Simon & Garfunkel
  • Barbra Streisand

    • Film lighting

    Fisher has designed theatrical lighting for many film features. Designs include:

  • A Star is Born (1976)
  • The Rose (1979)
  • Can't Stop the Music (1980)
  • Chicago (2002)
  • The Producers (2005)
  • Dreamgirls (2006)
  • Enchanted (2007)
  • Burlesque (2010)

    • Fisher can be seen as himself lighting a show in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979).

    Tony Award wins

    for Best Lighting Design:

  • 1973 Pippin
  • 1974 Ulysses in Nighttown
  • 1978 Dancin'
  • 1990 Grand Hotel
  • 1991 The Will Rogers Follies
  • 1992 Jelly's Last Jam
  • 1996 Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
  • 2004 Assassins (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
  • 2013 Lucky Guy (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)

    • Tony Award nominations

    for Best Lighting Design:

  • 1972 Jesus Christ Superstar
  • 1976 Chicago
  • 1978 Beatlemania
  • 1978 Dancin' (Best Musical, as producer)
  • 1984 La Cage aux Folles
  • 1986 Song & Dance
  • 1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
  • 1994 Angels in America: Perestroika
  • 1998 Ragtime (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
  • 2000 Marie Christine and The Wild Party (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)

    • References

    Jules Fisher Wikipedia
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