Philip Treviño (born 1976) is a Chicano (Mexican-American) theatrical designer based in

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Biography

Philip Treviño is a

lighting designer In theatre, a lighting designer (or LD) works with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create the lighting, atmosphere, and time of day for the production in response to the text while keeping ...

and

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for the theater and has worked primarily in Dance. The New York Times has called him "a set-and-lighting design wizard capable of his own magic." In 2010, he was awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award (

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) for

Pam Tanowitz Pam Tanowitz (born 1969) is an American dancer, choreographer, professor, and founder of the company, Pam Tanowitz Dance. She is a current staff member at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts where she teaches dance and choreography. ...

’s Be In The Gray With Me as both lighting and scenic designer. He was the Scenic Designer for

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and Company’s Mr. Tol E. Rance, winner of a 2014 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production. Philip Treviño is a member of Pioneers Go East Collective, an "award-winning collective of multigenerational and cross-cultural artists and activists focused on the mutual exchange of ideas and culture. Inspired by W. Whitman’s poem Pioneers, O Pioneers!, an homage to the pioneers' search for a brighter future – the collective is thought-provoking artists from diverse backgrounds who come together to share their experiences. In residence at two historical institutions - La MaMa and Judson Church - the collective centers the voices of LGBTQ and Feminist artists to build deeper relationships with members of lesser-heard communities in New York City and beyond." He has designed and worked with: *

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*Brian Brooks Moving Company *

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's SENSEDANCE *Kymera Dance *Pam Tanowitz Dance His work has toured nationally, internationally, and to the notable venues

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(BAM),

Joyce Theatre The Joyce Theater (“The Joyce") is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The building opened in 1941 as the Elgin Theater, a movie house, and was gut-renovated and reconfigured in 1981-82 to reo ...

, Joyce Soho, Dance Theatre Workshop (DTW),

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Out of Doors,

The Kitchen The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founde ...

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (La MaMa E.T.C.) is an Off-Off-Broadway theatre founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, African-American theatre director, producer, and fashion designer. Located in Manhattan's East Village, the theatre began in the ...

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, and

Jacob’s Pillow Jacob's Pillow is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization is known for a Summer dance festival. The facility also includes a professional school and extensive archives a ...

. Alternately, Philip has Production Stage Managed for: *

Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown’s dance/movement method, with which she and her dancers ...

Dance Company *

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Dance Company *Wally Cardona Quartet’s Everywhere and SITE *

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Company *Christopher Williams’ The Golden Legend

Education

Philip Treviño graduated in 2000 from

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with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and minor in Music. The areas of emphasis in his major were acting and technical theatre.

Teaching

Philip Treviño is a teacher, from 2006–present, of stagecraft and design at

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where he was the technical director until 2022 for the Dance Department.

Awards

*2010 New York Dance and Performance Award (

) in Lighting and Scenic Design for Pam Tanowitz’s Be In The Gray With Me. *2018 Rosco Gobo Design Contest Winner for his design of the gobo Square Radiant.

References

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