LDI 2016

Kevin Dreyer is a professional lighting designer and a member of the United Scenic Artists 829. Dreyer’s lighting designs for theatre, opera, and dance have been seen throughout the U.S. and in Europe, South America, and Asia with such companies as Paris Opera Ballet, La Compañia Nacional, Opera Teresa Carreño, Ballet du Nord, Momix, ISO, DanzaHoy, ABT, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, and the Joffrey Ballet. His design work in Venezuela was nominated for a national critic’s award, and he has been heralded as a “wizard lighting designer” by the Village Voice. The New York Times called his work with the Joffrey Ballet “brilliant” and it is featured in Paramont Pictures’s Save the Last Dance and the Robert Altman feature, The Company. Dreyer is an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame where he has been on the theatre faculty since 1989. He lives in northern Indiana with his wife and three daughters.