Jeffrey E. Salzberg, Lighting Designer for Theatre, Puppetry, Opera, and Dance

Jeffrey E. Salzberg has designed the lighting for many theatre, dance, and puppetry troupes in New York and also in the United States of America. The New York Times has called his lighting "ingeniously atmospheric."

In addition to lighting design and arts administration, Jeff also designs web pages (His work can be seen at www.jeffsalzberg.com).

Unknown even to his closest friends is the fact that Jeff is an expert on European fungi; in fact, nobody knows the truffles he's seen.

---

My Websites:

Jeffrey E. Salzberg's Online Portfolio Production photos, résumé, quotes from reviews, letters of reference, and more.
Stage Lighting for Students Basic reference for beginning lighting design students.

---

JEFFREY E. SALZBERG has designed the lighting for dance, theater, opera, and puppetry all over the United States and in Canada. Among the companies with which he has worked are the Houston, Pittsburgh, and Washington Ballets, for whom he has lit such ballets as Caliban, Swan Lake, and (of course) The Nutcracker. He has lit several solos, including A Shropshire Lad, featuring former New York City Ballet principal dancer (and current Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director) Peter Boal, for Manhattan-based Dance as Ever, and has also lit a new work created on Royal Ballet's Alexandra Ansanelli. DanceView Magazine said of A Shropshire Lad, "It was an extraordinarily moving piece, especially the elegiac last song. . .where the effective lighting (by Jeffrey E. Salzberg) seemed both to box the dancer in and to elevate him above all human suffering."

Peter Boal in A Shropshire Lad

With Sandglass Theater, he took Between Sand and Stars to the 8e Festival international des artes de la marionnette in Jonquière, Quebec. He designed the lighting for the Peccadillo Theater's Off-Broadway production of Room Service. NYTheatre.com said of the original Off-Off-Broadway production, "The...lighting by Jeffrey E. Salzberg...serve(s) the play effectively... with just the right touch of realism...." The New York Times has called his lighting, "ingeniously atmospheric." Jeff has lit such contemporary plays as Margaret Edson's Wit and A. R. Gurney's Far East, as well as Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter. Many of his designs, including Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth's To Turn Again, the Ensemble Theatre's A Soldier's Play, and Florida Studio Theatre's Hysteria, have won critical praise. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram called the lighting for To Turn Again, ". . .a devastating blend of image and sound." The Houston Chronicle, reviewing another production, said, "With its. . .lighting and dancing, the company has dramatically lifted the level of local dance."

To Turn Again

Jeff has also served as a design consultant for several theatre facilities.He is the past president of the Houston Dance Coalition's Board of Trustees and has participated in the arts funding process as a grantwriter, a panelist, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County. He is the former Executive Director of the Criticaldance.com Forum. Jeff's online portfolio can be viewed at www.jeffsalzberg.com. He urges you to support your public radio station.

---

---

---