LDI 2016

Justin Townsend is a two time Tony nominee for his designs of American Psyhco and The Humans, for which he won the Drama Desk for both and the Outer Critics Circle Award for American Psycho. He currently is working on the new musical written by David Byrne: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire. Additional credits include onBroadway: Fool for Love, Casa Valentina; A Night With Janis Joplin; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; The Other Place; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. NYC off broadway credits include: Here Lies Love (Drama Desk Award, Lortel Award), Juan and John (Public Theater); A Winter’s Tale and Odyssey, (Publicworks); Pretty Filthy (Civilians); A Man’s a Man, Galileo, Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company) Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play (Henry Hewes Award); Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons); Luck of the Irish, On The Levee (LCT3); Opus (Primary Stages); Beauty on the Vine, Palace of the End (Epic Theatre) Invisible Thread, Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage). Regional: Arden, Alliance, A.R.T, Bard Summerscape, Boston Court, Center Stage, Cincinnati Play House, Cleveland Playhouse, Folger Shakespeare, Goodman, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kirk Douglas, Mark Taper, The Intiman, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playmakers Repertory, Portland Center Stage. In he received the 2014 Obie Award for sustained excellence in Lighting Design. Mr. Townsend is an assistant professor at Brooklyn College. www.justintownsend.com