Justin Townsend

Personal Information
Broadway: Lucille Lortel: Here Lies Love, Unnatural Acts (nom) American Psycho; The Humans; Casa Valentina; A Night With Janis Joplin; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; The Other Place; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. NYC: Here Lies Love (Drama Desk Award, Lortel Award), Juan and John (Public); 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). 2014 Obie Award winner sustained excellence in Lighting Design. Assistant professor at Brooklyn College.
 
External Links: Official Website
Credits

Designer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 Original Sound Cherry Lane Theatre 05/09/2019 Set Designer
2 Venus Pershing Square Signature Center/ Irene Diamond Stage 05/15/2017 Lighting Designer
3 Joan of Arc: Into the Fire Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 03/15/2017 Lighting Designer
4 Vietgone New York City Center/ Stage I 10/25/2016 Lighting Designer
5 Mother Courage and Her Children East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 01/19/2016 Lighting Designer
6 Invisible Thread Second Stage Theatre 12/02/2015 Lighting Designer
7 The Humans Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 10/25/2015 Lighting Designer
8 Hamlet East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 04/15/2015 Lighting Designer
9 Pretty Filthy Abrons Arts Center/ Playhouse 02/08/2015 Lighting Designer
10 Lips Together, Teeth Apart Second Stage Theatre 10/29/2014 Lighting Designer
11 Found Linda Gross Theater 10/14/2014 Lighting Designer
12 Here Lies Love Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall 05/01/2014 Lighting Designer
13 The Architecture of Becoming New York City Center/ Stage II 03/09/2014 Set Designer
14 The Architecture of Becoming New York City Center/ Stage II 03/09/2014 Lighting Designer
15 A Man's A Man East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 01/30/2014 Lighting Designer
16 Mr. Burns, a post-electric play Playwrights Horizons 09/15/2013 Lighting Designer
17 The Caucasian Chalk Circle East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 05/30/2013 Lighting Designer
18 Here Lies Love Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall 04/23/2013 Lighting Designer
19 Luck of the Irish Claire Tow Theater 02/11/2013 Lighting Designer
20 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 11/12/2012 Lighting Designer
21 Galileo East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 02/12/2012 Lighting Designer
22 Milk Like Sugar Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 11/01/2011 Lighting Designer
23 Unnatural Acts East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 06/23/2011 Lighting Designer
24 The Other Place Lucille Lortel Theatre 03/28/2011 Lighting Designer
25 On the Levee The Duke on 42nd Street 06/28/2010 Lighting Designer
26 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 04/06/2010 Lighting Designer
27 Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven Peter Norton Space 09/26/2009 Lighting Designer
28 Palace of the End Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 06/23/2008 Lighting Designer
29 Opus 59E59 Theaters/ Theater A 08/07/2007 Lighting Designer
30 Howard Katz Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 03/01/2007 Associate Lighting Designer
31 The Treatment Theatres at 45 Bleecker/ Bleecker Street Theatre 09/12/2006 Lighting Designer
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2017 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Joan of Arc: Into the Fire Lighting Designer
2 NOMINATED 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Humans Lighting Designer
3 NOMINATED 2016 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play The Humans Lighting Designer
4 NOMINATED 2016 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Humans Lighting Designer
5 WON 2014 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Here Lies Love Lighting Designer
6 WON 2014 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Mr. Burns, a post-electric play Lighting Designer
7 NOMINATED 2014 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design A Man's A Man Lighting Designer
8 WON 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Here Lies Love Lighting Designer
9 NOMINATED 2013 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Here Lies Love Lighting Designer
10 NOMINATED 2012 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Unnatural Acts Lighting Designer
11 NOMINATED 2012 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Unnatural Acts Lighting Designer
12 NOMINATED 2010 AUDELCO Award, Lighting Design On the Levee Lighting Designer
13 NOMINATED 2010 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Lighting Designer
14 NOMINATED 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Lighting Designer
15 NOMINATED 2008 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Opus Lighting Designer