BURKE BROWN's recent designs include Tarell Alvin Mccraney’s The Brothers Size at the NYSF- Public Theater, Studio Theatre in DC and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin; Going Down Swingin’ at the New York Musical Theater Festival; Mark Lamos’ production of Lulu at the Yale Rep; The Flight of Icarus for the Soho Think Tank at the Ohio Theatre; and Falk Richter’s God is a DJ and Alex Knox’s Eye for the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts (Summer Cabaret). Recent music designs include the CD release party of Greta Gertler’s “Edible Restaurant” at Joe’s Pub and Offiong Basey’s A Moonlit Evening. Recent dance designs include the Ballet Pro Musica Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recent exciting collaborations include assisting Jennifer Tipton on David Gordon’s Uncivil Wars: Collaborating with Brecht & Eilser at the Kitchen, NYC and assisting Matt Frey on Tan Dun’s The Gate at BAM. Burke Brown also worked with Christine Sciulli on the Mabou Mines production Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting. Other lighting designs include: 365 Days/ 365 Plays: Week One (World Performance Project); Savage/Love & Tongues (Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts: Summer Cabaret); Hansel und Gretel (Opera Theatre of Yale College); The Foreigner, Spider’s Web, Appalachian Christmas Homecoming, Self Help (Flat Rock Playhouse); Jazz Like a Drug (Juggerknot Theatre Co.); The Just Assassins (Dreamer's Theatre); Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Woman in Black (Temple Theatre); Richard III, In the Red & Brown Water by Tarell Alvin Mccraney, Layla & Majnun, The Real Thing, MSN Dream (Yale School of Drama); Sincerity Forever, Hotel: Eight Rooms Philadelphia Chickens, Spring Night O' Mime, The Bad Seed, The Dragon, and The Wizard of Elm City (Yale Cabaret). As a Director: Sarah Kane’s Crave, and Tarell Alvin Mccraney’s Run, Mourner, Run (co-Director). Burke. Brown is the 2008 Artist in Residence for Lighting Design for Ars Nova and has a BA in International Studies and Theater Studies from Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Originally from North Carolina, Burke Brown has lived in Beijing, Miami, and New Haven, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. You can download a copy of Burke's current resume here. | |
| The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin Mccraney A co-production between The Public Theater and The Foundry Theater; Tours: The Studio Theater, Peacock Theater (Dublin) 11.2007 |
| The Flight of Icarus by Aaron Mack Schloff, based on the novel by Raymond Queneau, as translated by Barbara Wright Presented by Soho Think Tank at Ohio Theatre, New York, NY 07.2006 |