John Lasiter (1991) (www.johnlasiter.com) designs lighting (and sometimes scenery) for Opera, Ballet, Modern Dance, Drama and Musical Theater. His opera designs have been seen at Glimmerglass Opera, EOS Orchestra Opera NYC, Gotham Opera NYC, Manhattan School of Music, and numerous regional opera companies. His lighting for the acclaimed musical Ella (the Ella Fitzgerald Story) toured the US throughout 2006, 2007 and 2008. Regional theater design credits include: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theater Company, Asolo Repertory Theater, Center Stage Baltimore, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, George Street Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Goodspeed Operahouse (musicals), Hartford Stage, Milwaukee Repertory, New Mexico Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theater, San Jose Repertory, South Coast Repertory, St. Louis Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Theaterworks Hartford and Virginia Stage. His dance lighting has been produced at the Kitchen, Guggenheim SoHo, The Joyce Theater, throughout the US, Europe and occasionally Russia. He is the Resident Designer for Randy James Dance Works. John designed notable off-Broadway productions of The Seagull directed by Austin Pendelton, The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy written and directed by Alan Ball, Dreamstuff, Running Man (Jazz Opera), and Make Me a Song.

Jeff Tapper (1992) is a founding partner of Tapper, Nimer and Associates Inc, an IT consulting company. He has been developing Internet based applications since 1995, for a myriad of clients including Harley Davidson, Toys R Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, Morgan Stanley, and many others. As an Instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe's courses on Flex, ColdFusion and Flash development. Jeff has worked as author and technical editor for several books including Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0, and Flex 2 Training from the Source. He is a frequent speaker at Conferences and user groups. Jeff Tapper and Mike Nimer formed Tapper, Nimer and Associates Inc. to focus on developing Rich Internet Applications and empowering clients through mentoring.

Jeff Croiter (1993) - New York credits include: Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway; Rufus Wainwright's Judy Garland Concert at Carnegie Hall; concerts at the New Amsterdam including Chess and On The 20th Century; The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic Theatre Company); The Internationalist (The Vineyard); Dedication (Primary Stages); Miss Witherspoon (Playwrights Horizons); Privilege (Second Stage); The Works (The New Victory); Gone Home (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Dazzle, and Fiction (Roundabout Theatre Company); How To Save The World...; Burleigh Grimes; Drumstruck; Jacques Brel...; I Love You Because; Almost Maine; Lone Star Love; Rope; Trumbo; Matt & Ben; Barbra's Wedding; Passion Play; and Jennifer Muller The Works at The Joyce Theatre. He designed the national tours of Gilda's Balcony, Three Mo' Tenors, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, and Footprints for Alvin Ailey. Regional credits include productions for The Old Globe, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Paper Mill Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Trinity Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, and New York stage and film.

Kenny Schutz (1994) has left freelancing and theater to become a project manager for Focus Lighting.

Christopher Reay (1995) served as the Resident Associate Lighting Designer at the Seattle Repertory Theater for three seasons. During that time he had the fortunate opportunity to work with such artists as Stephen Wadsworth (Game of Love and Chance and Don Juan), Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses and The Odyssey), August Wilson (Jitney and the world premiere of King Hedley II prior to its move to Broadway), Daniel Sullivan (The Real Life and the national tour of Proof) and Ping Chong (Obon), In 1996, Chris received the The Gilbert Hemsley Lighting Internship Award in New York City. He has worked as the Associate Lighting Designer on numerous productions for the McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, Santa Fe Opera, Portland Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the latest Ring Cycle for Seattle Opera. Recently he worked on The Secret in the Wings for the Seattle Rep and Cosi Fan Tutti for Seattle Opera. His lighting design work in Seattle includes When Grace Comes In and Boy Gets Girl for the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Mitzi's Abortion, Flight and Black Coffee for ACT, Forbidden Xmas, Ubu Roi and Biro for the Empty Space Theatre, Juicy Point B for Maureen Whiting Dance Co., The Red Room at the Richard Hugo House, Mag Mor and Monster for Theater Schmeater. Chris currently serves as the Lighting Director for the Santa Fe Opera.

Penny Jacobus (1997) is the current Lighting Director of New York City Ballet. She was hired as Assistant Lighting Director for New York City Opera in 1998 upon completion of the Internship and remained in that position until 2000 when she moved to New York City Ballet. Other projects have included assisting on three Broadway shows, lighting several dance tours in Europe, working as Lighting Supervisor for the Kirov Ballet in the USA as well as lighting many gala events in the New York State Theater. She can be reached at and would be happy to answer any questions that Internship applicants may have. B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison Ð 1995.

Nicole Pearce (1998) (nicolepearcedesign.com) - Regional lighting designs: Sugar Syndrome, A Nervous Smile (Williamstown Theatre Festival). NY: Trial by Water (Ma-Yi Theatre Company), Little Willy (Rude Mechanicals), Jump Rope, 16 Wounded, 99 Histories (Cherry Lane Alternative); Sakharam Binder (The Play Company); M?moire, Blood in the Sink, Wet, Mimesophobia (SPF); The Secret Garden, An Unseen Energy Swallows Space (The Kitchen); Judith and five productions with the Juilliard School. Dance: All Fours, Rock of Ages, From Old Seville, Cargo, Candleflowerdance, Up and Down (Boston Ballet) with choreographer Mark Morris, Swan Lake, The Little Mermaid (Ballet Memphis); Choreographers/Composers and New Dances (The Juilliard School); Carmina Burana (Ballet Theatre of Maryland); Hold the Line (Symphony Space).

James Primm (2001) has designed lighting for Opera in the Ozarks, Florida Studio Theatre, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, The Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre as well as a series of New Visions concerts for New York City Opera. He has done ongoing work with the Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre in Kansas City since 2001 and has been assisting professionally with Kirk Bookman and Dawn Chiang.

Camille Connolly (2002) is an MFA graduate ('02) from Carnegie Mellon where she studied both lighting & scenery, BFA from Southern Oregon University. Her work ranges from Fringe Shows to Broadcast environments, International Exhibits to Musicals, Opera, Ballet and Dance, to Dinner Theater. Some much loved projects include designing scenery for Sailor's Song (LABryinth Theater), The Baker's Wife (CMU), lighting for the American Girl Revue (American Girl Place NYC), 5 Guys Named Moe (Oregon Cabaret Theater), scenery for Life during Wartime at the New School, and assisting with the scenery for Howard Stern, Martha Stuart Living, ABC News Tonight, Nickelodeon International Licensing Exhibit, and the Weather Channel for Jack Morton/Production Design Group.

Dan Gallagher (2005) was the 2005 Gilbert Hemsley Lighting Intern at Lincoln Center, where he worked for New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, the Lincoln Center Festival, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Dan continues to work for these companies as a lighting assistant. He has taught lighting design at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he received his masters degree. He designed shows for the University Opera and University Theatre, including, The Secret Garden, The Memorandum, Dialogues of the Carmelites and The Physicists for which he won the 2003 Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival award for best lighting design. He has also designed for the Gallery Players (NYC), CTM Madison Family Theatre, Madison Savoyards, Renaissance Theaterworks (WI), Mary Washington College (VA), Arizona State University, the Forestburgh Playhouse (NY), and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. He has also worked as an assistant designer for P.B.S.' Live from Lincoln Center, Madison Rep, Milwaukee Rep, and Skylight Opera. Dan was the technical coordinator for the U.S. tour of India's Chorus Repertory Theatre's production of Nine Hills One Valley. Dan is also a co-founder of Endstation Theatre in Charlottesville, VA which will premier its first production in the Spring of 2007.