Paul Gallo

Paul Gallo
Photo by Brendan Ragan
Born	Paul Leonard Gallo February 24, 1953 Bronx, New York, U.S.
Education	Yale School of Drama (MFA) Ithaca College (BFA)
Occupation	Lighting Designer
Years active	1977–present
Spouse(s)	Judith Martin Gallo (m. 1987)
Children	Francesca Ruth Gallo (b. 1989) Nicholas Martin Gallo (b. 1992)
Awards	1 Drama Desk Awards 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards 2 Obie Awards
Website	PaulGalloStudio.com

Paul Gallo (born February 24, 1953) is an American theatrical lighting designer.

In a career that spans over 3 decades, Gallo has designed over 50 Broadway productions, an achievement matched by only 6 other lighting designers. He made his Broadway debut at the age of 27 with Passione, starring Jerry Stiller. Subsequently, he has had the privilege of working with the amazing talents of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Renée Zellweger, Liam Neeson, Ben Stiller, Victor Garber, Christopher Walken, Stockard Channing, Patti Lupone, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Patrick Stewart, Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, Jessica Tandy, Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Taylor.

Gallo has received eight nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and ten nominations for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, which he won for the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. He won the Henry Hewes Design Award, Collaborative Design Achievement-Lighting Design for the Public Theater production of Vienna: Lusthaus in 1986, and was nominated for Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design, for The Crucible (2002).^[1]

Biography

Gallo was born in New York City near Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, the son of Lola (Morales) Gallo and Albert Gallo who were ballroom dancers in the 1950s. Gallo attended Ithaca College on an acting scholarship but soon discovered his aptitude for lighting. He then went on to study lighting with Tom Skelton and Ming Cho Lee as a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.^[2] He feels very privileged to have been given the opportunity to work on the Broadway stage but his proudest achievements are his 27-year marriage to his beautiful wife, Jody, and his two wonderful children, Francesca and Nicholas.

Original Broadway Productions (selected)

• Grown Ups^[3] (1981)
• Beyond Therapy (1982)
• Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985)
• The House of Blue Leaves (1986)
• Smile (1986)
• City of Angels (1989)
• Lend Me a Tenor (1989)
• Six Degrees of Separation (1990)
• Crazy for You (1992)
• Smokey Joe's Cafe (1995)
• Titanic (1997)
• Triumph of Love (1997)
• The Civil War (1999)
• Three Days of Rain (2006)
• A Bronx Tale (2007)
• Mauritius (2007)
• November (2008)
• Wonderland (2011)

Celebrated Revivals on Broadway (selected)

• Anything Goes (1987)
• Guys and Dolls (1992)
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1996)
• The Sound Of Music (1998)
• The Rocky Horror Show (2000)
• 42nd Street (2001)
• Man Of La Mancha (2002)
• The Crucible (2002)
• Pal Joey (2008)

Film Lighting

• O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
• The Comedy Of Errors (1987)
• The Man Who Came To Dinner (2000)
• Chicago (2002)

Tony Award nominations

for Best Lighting Design:

• 1986 The House of Blue Leaves
• 1988 Anything Goes
• 1990 City of Angels
• 1992 Crazy for You
• 1992 Guys and Dolls
• 2001 42nd Street
• 2002 The Crucible
• 2006 Three Days of Rain

References

1. Ehren, Christine. "Hewes Design Award Nominations Recognize Broadway, Off-Broadway Designers" playbill.com, August 22, 2002
2. Rothstein, Mervyn. "A Life in the Theatre: Paul Gallo" Playbill.com, March 3, 2008
3. Grown Ups playbillvault.com

External links

• Paul Gallo Studio
• Paul Gallo Internet Broadway Database listing
• Paul Gallo Internet Movie Database listing
• Paul Gallo Internet Off-Broadway Database listing
• Raising Titanic: Paul Gallo and his design team position the ship for its Broadway Berth