{"title":"Jane Cox","role":"Lighting Design","image":"","lede":null,"content":"

JANE COX<\/strong> (Lighting Design<\/em>). Jane Cox is a theater maker, an educator and a lighting designer working in theater, opera, dance and music. Jane won a Tony, a Drama Desk and the Henry Hewes award in 2024 for her lighting for Appropriate<\/em>, and has three Tony nominations for Macbeth<\/em> (\u201822), Jitney<\/em> (\u201817) and Machinal<\/em> (\u201814). Her creative career has been built on relationships; some of the extraordinary theatrical artists who have shaped her creative life include Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Doyle, Elise Thoron, Shariffa Ali, Caitr\u00edona MacLaughlin, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Sam Gold. Recent designs include Michael R Jackson and Anna K Jacob\u2019s Teeth<\/em> at Playwrights Horizons; Donnacha Dennehy\u2019s Land of Winter<\/em> at the Irish Arts Center; The Weir <\/em>at the Abbey Theater in Dublin (her home town); Felon: An American Washi Tale<\/em>; and The Marriage of Figaro<\/em>, Cosi and Don Giovanni<\/em> at San Francisco Opera. Other highlights have been co-organizing and hosting the 2023 symposium and creative convening The Future of Race in Design<\/em> at the Park Avenue Armory with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Mimi Lien and Mikaal Sulaiman; organizing a series of events with returning citizens in conjunction with performances of Felon: An American Washi Tale<\/em> by Reginald Dwayne Betts and receiving a Distinguished Achievement Award from USITT in 2025. Jane has been a member of the Monica Bill Barnes dance company for more than twenty years. She is a Professor of the Practice and Director of the Program in Theater and Music Theater at Princeton University, where she is also the co-director for the Fund for Irish Studies and a member of CreativeX.<\/p>","website":"","alt":""}