JOEL MORITZ (Lighting Design) whose award-winning work has been seen in theatres around the world.

Current design projects include: Blue Man Group Tokyo; “Star Wars” Exhibit at the Museum of Science & Industry; Our Town (dir. Aaron Posner) at Two River Theatre Company in New Jersey. He is the Lighting Designer for Blue Man Group (Universal Studios Orlando, Amsterdam, Germany).

Recent New York/ Off Broadway work includes: Tatjana in Color (Culture Project), wAve (Ma-Yi Theatre Co.), Just as If (Off-Broadway), Lion in the Streets (29th Street Rep), The Tempest, Elliot a Soldiers Fugue, Phedre (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis) at the Fisher Center, and King Stag (dir. Andrei Belgrader) at Juilliard.

Regional theatre and opera include: Shakespeare Theatre–BeauxStratagem (dir. Michael Kahn); Arena Stage–Passion Play, Cabaret (dir. Molly Smith); Rep. Theater of St Louis–Bee-Luther Hatchee; Chicago Opera Theatre–Semele, Rape of Lucretia; Court Theatre–Virginia Woolfe, The Dead, Phedre, The Chairs; Goodman Theater–28 (with Lookingglass Theatre); Steppenwolf–Disappeared, Her Name Was Danger, House on Mango Street; other companies include: Kansas City Rep, Meadowbrook Theatre, Theatre Alliance, six productions with About Face Theatre including Eleven Rooms of Proust (Mary Zimmerman). Joel’s work has earned several Joseph Jefferson Awards and Nominations.

Television/Film: “America’s Got Talent” ABC Studios Blue Man Group Guest Appearance; SummerSonic Live Televised Concert, Blue Man Group Tokyo;lighting and DP on shoots for several documentary films.

International: Blue Man Group, Lugano Switzerland; Traverse Theatre, Assembly Theater in Edinburgh and productions in Buenos Aires, Lima, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Prague, and Cairo.

In his spare time, Joel is an avid snowboarder, designs and builds furniture and experiments with photography.