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Theater Design

2009 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards® Nomination for Best Lighting Design for 33 Variations.  33 Variations was written and directed by Moisés Kaufman, starring Jane Fonda.  On Broadway at the Eugene O'Neil Theatre February - May, 2009.  33 Variations was previously preformed at La Jolla Playhouse and received its World Premiere at Arena Stage in 2008.

Upcoming 2010 projects: Master Class with Tyne Daly at The Kennedy Center,  Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at The Mark Taper Forum, Restoration by Claudia Shear at New York Theatre Workshop.

Recent 2009 Productions: Aftermath at NYTW , Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz at Opera Santa Barbara, A Long and Winding Road starring Maureen McGovern at Huntington Theatre in Boston.  Claudia Shear's new play Restoration at La Jolla Playhouse directed by Christopher Ashley and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph directed by Moisés Kaufman at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles.  Last fall the Broadway revival of A Man For All Seasons, starring Frank Langella directed by Doug Hughes, at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre.

In 2008, Beast by Michael Weller at NYTW, Edward Albee's Occupant at the Signature Theatre Company, NYC. and Othello at the Alley Theatre in Houston.  David designed the theatrical lighting for the feature film Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 which opened August 6, 2008.

Lander’s Broadway credits include I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright directed by Moisés Kaufman, which won the 2004 Tony for Best Play and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Best Play.  dirty BLONDE by Claudia Shear directed by James Lapine and Golden Child by David Henry Hwang also directed by James Lapine.  Also A Man for All Seasons and 33 Variations, listed above.

Lander has collaborated with directors Christopher Ashley, Jo Bonney, Frank Dunlop, Terry Kinney, Paul Blake, Mark Brokaw, Doug Hughes, Pam Hunt, Moisés Kaufman, James Lapine, Arthur Laurents, Pam MacKinnon, Maria Mileaf, Larry Moss, David Saint, Scott Schwartz, Steven Wadsworth.  And actors Jane Actkinson, Tom Aldrich, William Atherton, Craig Bierko, Jason Biggs, Stephen Bogardus, Judy Blazer, Larry Bryggman, Kieran Culkin, Jim Dale, Olympia Dukakis, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Emerson, Mia Farrow, Jane Fonda, Penny Fuller, Boyd Gains, Malcolm Gets, John Glover, Zach Grenier, George Grizzard, Dee Hoty, Eartha Kitt, Kevin Klein, Frank Langella, Logan Marshall-Green, Maureen McGovern, Rita Moreno, Michael Nouri, Ana Paquin, Steven Pasquale, Mary Beth Piel, Molly Ringwald, Chita Rivera, Mercedes Ruehl, Michael Rupert, Liev Schreiber, Jean Smart, Louis Zorich.

Architecture / Themed Attractions / Public Art

David's completed projects include “Invitation,” a light-art installation for Alden Hotel - Houston.  “Luca et Vita Universae” with artist Lori Nozic, for Art-in-Public-Places, a sculpture and star field installation for Public School 58, Staten Island, NY.  Sea World of Florida’s “Sea Port” waterfront, 3 themed restaurants, 4 retail shops and exterior waterfront, as old European Sea Port.  Sea World of Florida and San Diego’s “Wild Arctic,” a themed arctic walk-through aquarium exhibit.  Denver International Airport- Leni Schwendinger’s “Deep Time/Deep Space - a Subterranean Journey,” a light and sculpture installation in a one mile-long automated shuttle train tunnel.  Pittsburgh Light Projects- Pittsburgh, PA.  Lighting consultant to interpret and execute Robert Wilson’s public art light projects.

Events / Parties

Lander has lighted parties and gala events in New York City in such prestigious places as the Harvard Club, the University Club, the Union League Club and the National Arts Club.  He has lighted events in unusual sites such as at the Main Post Office on 8th Avenue.  David has lighted gala events for the MacDowell Colony, Glimmerglass Opera Company, New 42nd Street Inc. and opening night parties for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Broadway Musical Victor/Victoria.  Lander has lighted the University Club's New Years Eve Gala for 6 years.

Awards

2009 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards® Nomination for Best Lighting Design for 33 Variations

2009 Hewes Award Nomination for Best Lighting Design for 33 Variations

2009 Los Angeles Ovation Nomination for Best Lighting Design for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.

2008 San Diego Craig Noel Award for Best Lighting Design for 33 Variations

2008 Washington DC's Helen Hayes Award Nomination,  Best Lighting Design for 33 Variations

New York Drama Desk Nomination, 2004, Best Lighting Design for I Am My Own Wife

Outer Critics Circle Nomination, 2004, Best Lighting Design for I Am My Own Wife

Lucille Lortell Nomination, 2004, Best Lighting Design for I Am My Own Wife

New York Drama Desk Nomination, 2000, Best Lighting Design for Dirty Blonde

Maharam Award Nomination, 2000, Best Lighting Design for Dirty Blonde

Drama-Logue Award 1997, for Golden Child at South Coast Repertory 1997
Maharam Award Nomination1997, Best Lighting Design for Golden Child
LUMEN Award for Sea World of Florida's Wild Arctic 1997
IALD Award (International Association of Lighting Designers) for the new Denver Airport's
        Deep Time/Deep Space a Subterranean Journey
Ettinger Scholarship, 1990-1991 New York University Graduate Assistant 1988-1991
New York University Design Competition, First Prize in Lighting, 1988

Education

MFA in Design, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1991
BFA in Design, The Ohio State University, 1987  

Instructor of Lighting Design: Parsons School of Design, Continuing Education Division, 1994-1997

Member: United Scenic Artists Local 829.

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