Dan Covey

Dan Covey is a lighting designer and projections designer for the theater, working professionally since 1980.

He studied at West Virginia University from 1976 to 1980. After leaving WVU, he worked for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, for a variety of theaters in Boston, and recently as a lighting designer and theater renovation advisor in Washington, D.C.. He and set designer Tony Cisek worked together on more than 40 Washington productions. They also worked together on two Off-Broadway productions, Beyond Glory (2007), and columbinus (2006).^[1]

Awards and nominations

Covey received a 2008 Drammy Award for Lighting Design for Portland Center Stage's new production of Sometimes a Great Notion.^[2] This production was featured in American Theatre magazine in September 2008.^[3]

He also received the 2001 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for his work on The Tempest at the Folger Theatre.^[4]

He has been nominated twelve other times for the Helen Hayes Award as follows:

Dangerous Liaisons at Rep Stage (1999) Edmond at Source Theatre Company (2000) Leaving the Summer Land for Tribute Productions (2001) Macbeth at Folger Theatre (2002) Slaughter City for Theater Alliance at the H Street Playhouse (2004) The Return to Morality at Rep Stage (2004) Mary's Wedding for Theater Alliance at the H Street Playhouse (2005) Merlin and the Cave of Dreams at Imagination Stage (2005) Hannah & Martin at Theater J (2006) In the Heart of America at Rep Stage (2009) On the Verge, or The Geography of Yearning at Rep Stage (2011) Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea for Theater Alliance at the Anacostia Playhouse (2016)

Notes

1. Horwitz, Jane."Setting the Stage Beyond D.C.",Washington Post, June 20, 2007
2. The Drammys Portland Drama Awards, Awarded June 9, 2008, "29th Annual Drammy Award Winners". Retrieved 2015-12-02.
3. Carey, Owen. "Sometimes a Great Notion Portland Center Stage," pp. 48-49. American Theatre, September 2008.
4. Covey Recipient of Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production - 2001, "Recipient Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production - 2001". Retrieved 2015-12-03.

References

Off-Broadway

• Isherwood, Charles (2007-06-22). "Roundabout Theater Company's Beyond Glory". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
• Isherwood, Charles (2006-05-23). "New York Theater Workshop's columbinus". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-14.

External links

• "Dan Covey, Lighting Designer, Official website". Retrieved 2010-10-27.
• "Helen Hayes Awards". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
• "Portland, Oregon's 29th Annual Drammy Award Winners". Retrieved 2015-12-02.