BIOGRAPHY
Chris Parry
Chris Parry (Lighting Designer for The Tempest) works both in the U.S.A. and Europe designing for theater and opera and teaches at U.C.S. Recent credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses (New York Drama Desk Award, Tony Award nomination on its Broadway run), Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear (for Nicholas Hytner) Othello and Measure for Measure (for Trevor Nunn) at the Royal Shakeapeare Company, and The Crucible, Piano, and Way of the World at the Royal National Theatre. On Broadway his work also includes The Who's Tommy (New York Drama Desk Award and Tony Award) and Translations, as well as productions for numerous resident theaters throught the U.S. He has also designed for the Welsh National Opera, and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera. Mr. Parry received the 1993 Lighting Designer of the Year Award from Lighting Dimensions magazine.