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John McKernon has been designing
lighting for over thirty years, in a
wide range of venues. Recent designs
include the Broadway production of
One Mo¹ Time, the recent Off-
Broadway revival of The Trip to
Bountiful, and the New York and
London productions of Jelly Roll!
starring Vernel Bagneris as well
as subsequent national tours. Over
the years he has lit plays, musicals,
ballets, modern dance companies,
religious pagents, galas, dance
festivals, restaurants, and nightclubs
for clients across the United States,
Europe, and Asia, taking him from the
Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York as
far afield as Sun Yat Sen Hall in
Taipei. He has designed shows starring
many prominent performers, including
Sigourney Weaver, Earle Hyman, Liv
Ullman, John Lithgow, Oba Babatunde,
and Glenn Close, and for two years
served as a lighting supervisor for
the U.S. tour of Riverdance.
Regionally and Off Broadway, he has
designed an eclectic range of shows
including The Piano Lesson,
The School of Jolly Dogs,
Othello, Gypsy,
Dracula, Further Mo¹ ,
Hot Chocolate, What¹s A Nice
Country Like YouŠ and An
Evening With Jerry Herman.
He designs lighting for both modern
and classical dance, including
multiple productions of The
Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, Giselle,
Coppelia, and Sleeping
Beauty for companies ranging from
the North Carolina Dance Theatre to
Oregon Ballet Theatre, as well as
eighteen years of work with Pearl Lang.
In New York, he has lit numerous galas
and concerts featuring stars such as
Betty Buckley, Chita Rivera, Victor
Garber, Judy Kaye, Dorothy Loudon, Eva
Gabor, Ann Reinking, Gwen Verdon, Art
Garfunkel, Burl Ives, Jason Robards,
Beverly Sills, Lynn Redgrave, Pete
Seeger, and Peter, Paul, and Mary.
For over twenty years he has been an
associate designer to Ken Billington,
with whom he has worked on many
prominent Broadway, Off-Broadway, and
national tour productions, including
the recent Broadway productions of
Chicago and Inherit the
Wind, as well as Lettice &
Lovage, Chess, The Lisbon Traviata,
Lips Together Teeth Apart, West Side
Story, Nunsense, Sweet Sue, Wonder of
the World, Newyorkers, Sylvia, Time
and Again, and The Red
Shoes.
As architectural lighting supervisor
for KB Associates, Inc. he has been
involved in the design of many
outstanding restaurants, nightclubs,
and other attractions, including
Tavern on the Green in New York, King
Xmhu in Sapporo, Aba Daba Disco in
Phuket, Journey to Atlantis at Sea
World in Orlando, and Gladstone¹s at
Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles. In
New York, he has just finished work on
a new trading center for SAC Capital
Management Ltd. and renovations to the
Rocking Horse Cafe.
Mr. McKernon is also the author of
Lightwright, the industry
standard software for theatrical
lighting designers and electricians
around the world, and teaches in the
Graduate Design Department at the NYU
Tisch School of the Arts.
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