LAP CHI CHU
has designed lighting for Theater, Opera and Dance across the country. At the Evidence Room, he designed lighting for PENTECOST, CRINGE, HARD TIMES, and SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY (lights and set), and he designed the scenery for THE CHERRY ORCHARD. He is recipient of two Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for best lighting. His regional credits include Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, San Jose Rep, Intiman Theater, Portland Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage, Shakespeare & Co., Cleveland Playhouse, The Evidence Room, Virginia Opera, The Ordway Music Theater, New York Theatre Workshop (Usual Suspects contributing artist), Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, The Kitchen, Danspace, Primary Stages, and Juilliard Opera. As Resident Lighting Designer for Lincoln Center's Juilliard Drama School, Chu has designed more than 20 productions in the last decade. A regular collaborator and sets, lights, video designer with the dance company Chamecki/Lerner, he has designed the full-length pieces COSTUMES BY GOD, VISIBLE CONTENT, HIDDEN FORMS, I MUTANTES SERAS and PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME, which were presented in North and South America. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and NYU. He is currently on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts.

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