Alan Edwards

Alan C. Edwards’ work as a Lighting Designer includes the world premieres of Harry Clarke (The Vineyard, Lortel Award), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre, Drama Desk nomination), and The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall (Signature NYC, 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). Other New York work includes: Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, and Fires in the Mirror (Signature NYC), Twelfth Night, and Seize The King (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Bluebird Memories featuring rap-artist Common (Audible Theatre), and Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge by Greig Sargeant and Elevator Repair Service (The Public). His work in dance includes: Where We Dwell and Chasing Magic by Ayodele Casel, Rhythm Is Life by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, and Lifted choreographed by Christopher Rudd for American Ballet Theatre, among others. On Broadway Edwards was the associate to lighting designer Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he is also an assistant professor of lighting. www.alancedwards.com.