Design for Stage and Film
John McKernon |
Courses
Computer Aided Drafting
Education
B.F.A., North Carolina School of the Arts
Biography
Author of Lightwright software.
Lighting Design: Broadway: One Mo’ Time. Other: The Trip to Bountiful (Drama Desk & Lortel nominations), Jelly Roll (New York and London) The Piano Lesson, The School of Jolly Dogs, Othello, Gypsy, Dracula, Further Mo’, Hot Chocolate, What’s A Nice Country Like You…, An Evening With Jerry Herman, The Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, Giselle, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, and 30 years of designs for the Pearl Lang Dance Theater and other modern dance companies. Two years as a lighting supervisor for the U.S. tour of Riverdance.
Associate designer to Ken Billington for 20 years, including: Chicago, Inherit the Wind, Sylvia, Party, Annie Warbucks, Chess, The Lisbon Traviata, Lips Together Teeth Apart, West Side Story, Nunsense, Sweet Sue, Wonder of the World, Newyorkers, Sylvia, Time and Again, Belle of Amherst, Deathtrap, Annie Get Your Gun, West Side Story, Nunsense, Drowning Crow, and The Red Shoes.
Architectural lighting supervisor for KB Associates, Inc.: Over 40 projects, including Tavern on the Green, King Xmhu, Aba Daba Disco, Journey to Atlantis, and Gladstone’s.
