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Name
  
Neil Jampolis

Role
  
Lighting Designer


Spouse
  
Jane Reisman (m. 1971)

Known for
  
Lighting Designer

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Parents
  
Samuel Jampolis, Beatrice Jampolis

Awards
  
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Similar People
  
Paul Pyant, Cholly Atkins, Fayard Nicholas, John Lee Beatty, John Wood

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Neil Peter Jampolis is a light designer, set designer, and stage director. He is best known for the light designing he did for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s 1975 production of Sherlock Holmes for which he won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award. Jampolis went on to win an American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award in 1982 and three more Tony Award nominations for The Innocents, Black and Blue, and Orpheus Descending. He also won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for lighting Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Jampolis has also worked as either a light designer, set designer, or stage director with Pilobolus Dance Theatre the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Pacific, the New York City Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, and Hollywood's Matrix Theatre among others. He is currently one of the main light designers for the Seattle Opera and a distinguished professor of theatre at UCLA's School of Theatre, Film, and Television. He also occasionally works as a stage director and set designer for Seattle Opera as well.

References

Neil Peter Jampolis Wikipedia


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