Occupation Lighting Designer Role Lighting Designer Name Paul Gallo | Website PaulGalloStudio.com Years active 1977–present Parents Lola Gallo, Albert Gallo | |
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Full Name Paul Leonard Gallo Born February 24, 1953 (age 71) ( 1953-02-24 ) Bronx, New York, U.S. Spouse Judith Martin Gallo (m. 1987) Children Francesca Ruth Gallo, Nicholas Martin Gallo Education Yale School of Drama, Ithaca College Awards Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Similar People Jerry Zaks, William Ivey Long, Robin Wagner, Tony Walton, Joe Mantello | ||
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Paul Gallo (born February 24, 1953) is an American theatrical lighting designer.
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- Sewing the fly front zipper with paul gallo
- Biography
- Original Broadway Productions selected
- Celebrated Revivals on Broadway selected
- Film Lighting
- Tony Award nominations
- References
In a career that spans over 3 decades, Gallo has designed over 50 Broadway productions, an achievement matched by only 6 other lighting designers. He made his Broadway debut at the age of 27 with Passione, starring Jerry Stiller. Subsequently, he has had the privilege of working with the amazing talents of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Renée Zellweger, Liam Neeson, Ben Stiller, Victor Garber, Christopher Walken, Stockard Channing, Patti Lupone, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Patrick Stewart, Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, Jessica Tandy, Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Taylor.
Gallo has received eight nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and ten nominations for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, which he won for the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. He won the Henry Hewes Design Award, Collaborative Design Achievement-Lighting Design for the Public Theater production of Vienna: Lusthaus in 1986, and was nominated for Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design, for The Crucible (2002).
Biography
Gallo was born in New York City near Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, the son of Lola (Morales) Gallo and Albert Gallo who were ballroom dancers in the 1950s. Gallo attended Ithaca College on an acting scholarship but soon discovered his aptitude for lighting. He then went on to study lighting with Tom Skelton and Ming Cho Lee as a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. He feels very privileged to have been given the opportunity to work on the Broadway stage but his proudest achievements are his 27-year marriage to his beautiful wife, Jody, and his two wonderful children, Francesca and Nicholas.
Original Broadway Productions (selected)
Celebrated Revivals on Broadway (selected)
Film Lighting
Tony Award nominations
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