Solomon Weisbard | Lighting Design Mentor
Solomon has created original works in drama, opera, dance, installation, and music across the U.S., Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia. In addition to being a core collaborator with legendary director Robert Wilson, New York credits include Macbeth (with John Doyle at Classic Stage); The Shape of Things (with Carrie Mae Weems/Park Avenue Armory); Duat (Soho Rep); Men on Boats (World Premiere: Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb); and associate lighting design for the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Jitney. Regionally: Arden, Berkshire Theatre Group, Magic, Merry-Go-Round, Miami New Drama, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, Portland Stage, TheatreSquared, Westport, Writers, and Yale Rep. Locally: Broadway Rose, OrpheusPDX, Pickathon, Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera, Portland Playhouse, Third Rail. Solomon is Associate Director of the School of Music & Theater at Portland State University where he seeks to support the next-generation of diverse theater-makers. BFA: Ithaca College, MFA: Yale School of Drama.