Scott Bolman

Scott is an NYC-based designer and educator working in a diverse array of performance mediums, including theater, dance, music and opera.

Scott is currently in development for Robert Wilson's Odyssey project, slated to open in Athens in 2012. He previously collaborated with Robert Wilson on KOOL: Dancing in my mind, which performed at the Guggenheim Museum NYC and Guild Hall in East Hampton. Other upcoming designs include Ted Hearn's Katrina Ballads, with film by Bill Morrisson, at Le Poisson Rouge in New York and the Hobby Performing Arts Center in Houston and a collaboration with DJ Spooky and choreographer Corey Baker on Coup de Foudre, a re-mix of Cocteau's Le sang d'un poète, at the Guggenheim Museum NYC. He was one of ten designers selected to work on the 2010 Lincoln Center Director's Lab.  Other recent projects include Fatherland (Ideal Glass), La Dame Aux Camélias (Arclight), Missed Connections (Ars Nova) and Children at Play (Living Theater). Scott is an Adjunct Professor of Lighting Design at Montclair State University.

Scott has designed numerous theatrical premiers for playwrights including Charles L. Mee, Lucy Thurber, Rey Pamatmat, Alejandro Morales, Jordan Seavey, Ruth McKee, Tristine Skyler and many others. Theater credits include Happy Days (Classic Stage Company), You Can't Take it With You (University of Rochester), Baal and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Columbia University), Professional Skepticism (Abingdon Theater), Of Mice and Men (Urban Stages) and Harvest (La Mama ETC) Outside New York, Scott's designs include The Taming of the Shrew and Fighting Words (Yale Repertory Theater), You Can't Take it With You (University of Rochester), Hyppolytus and The Bacchae 2.17 (Princeton University) and numerous productions for Hope Summer Repertory Theater, including a set and lighting design for Oliver!

Scott's opera work includes the New York premier of John Musto's Later the Same Evening at the Manhattan School of Music, Missy Mazzoli's Songs from the Uproar at Galapagos Art Space and Xerxes, Eugene Onegin, Cosi Fan Tutti, Armide and Transformations at the Maryland Opera Studio. He has also re-created Jennifer Tipton's lighting for operas in Belgium, France, Italy, Israel, Japan and South Africa. His concert work includes Peter and the Wolf (Guggenheim Museum), conducted by George Manahan, and David T. Little's Soldier Songs (Players Theater).

Scott lit the premier of Shen Wei Dance Arts' Map at the 2005 Lincoln Center Festival. Other dance work includes Ximena Garnica's A Timeless Kaidan (2007 NYC Butoh Festival), Hélène Lesterlin's Praxis (HERE) and KT Niehoff's Attracted to Accidents. (U.S., Canada, Ecuador) Scott served as lighting designer for the 2003 and 2005 NYC Butoh Festivals and for numerous dance festivals in Seattle.

As a lighting supervisor and production manager, Scott has traveled across North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia for companies such as Shen Wei Dance Arts, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Köln-based music ensemble musikFabrik, the State Ballet of Georgia and Seattle-based KTDance.

Scott graduated Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College (Amherst, MA 1997) and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama (New Haven, CT 2003). Scott is a founding member of Wingspace design collective.

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Contact Info:
917.543.0018
scott@wingspace.com
http://www.wingspace.com/scott