Production

Kent Dorsey
Lighting Designer
 

Kent Dorsey returns to Opera San José as the lighting designer for all four productions of the 2010-11 season: Anna Karenina, Tosca, The Barber of Seville and La bohéme. Previously, Mr. Dorsey's lighting designs appeared in the company's productions of La Cenerentola, La Rondine, Carmen, and Werther. Mr. Dorsey has also designed sets and/or lighting for Madama Butterfly, The Crucible and Die Lustige Witwe.  

Other recent design credits include the world premier of The Conquistador and the west coast premier of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse, both for San Diego Opera.  Mr.  Dorsey was also lighting designer for Palm Beach Opera's productions of Samson et Dalila and La bohème, Virginia Opera's production of The Flying Dutchman and the adaptation of Nabucco for New York City Opera.

For the theater, Mr. Dorsey recently designed scenery and lighting for the play Silence in Tokyo, a joint project by The Subaru Acting Company and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.  His New York theater production credits include Alligator Tales, About Time, The Cocktail Hour, Silence, Yankee Dawg You Die, Suds and Another Antigone.  Other design credits for major theaters include lighting and/or set design for The Cocktail Hour at Kennedy Center, The Old Globe Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cleveland PlayHouse, and the Los Angeles Theatre Center, to name just a few.