Jules Fisher
Jules Fisher | |
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Carnegie Institute of Technology | |
| Known for | Lighting design |
| Spouse | Graciela Daniele |
| Awards | Tony Award for Best Lighting Design (9x) |
Jules Fisher (born November 12, 1937) is an American
Tony Awards (as a lighting designer), more than any other lighting designer, and won nine Tony awards for Lighting Design, also more than any other lighting designer.[2]
Biography
Fisher was born in
Carnegie Institute of Technology.[3] He is married to choreographer-director Graciela Daniele. He has been in a professional partnership with lighting designer Peggy Eisenhauer since 1985, and they formed Third Eye Ltd, a firm specializing in entertainment and theatre lighting. He is also a principal in the theatre consulting firm Fisher Dachs Associates, architectural lighting firm Fisher Marantz Stone, and teaches at The New School
. Fisher was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2013.
Stage work (selected)
- Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
- High Spirits (1964)
- The Subject Was Roses (1964)
- Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)
- You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967)
- The Man in the Glass Booth (1968)
- The Only Game in Town (1968)
- Hair (1968, revival 1977)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)
- Soon (1971)
- Pippin (1972)
- The Iceman Cometh (1973)
- Liza (Special) (1974)
- Chicago (1975)
- Beatlemania (1977)
- La Cage aux Folles (1983)
with Peggy Eisenhauer
- Song and Dance (1985)
- Rags (1986)
- Legs Diamond (1988)
- Ragtime (1998)
- Gypsy (2003)
- School of Rock (2003)
- Assassins (2004)
- The Ritz (2007)
- 9 to 5 (2008)
- Lucky Guy (2013)
- Once on this Island(2017)
- Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (2019)
Concert work
Fisher has worked with many popular musicians on their concerts and tours including:
- The Rolling Stones
- KISS
- David Bowie
- Parliament-Funkadelic
- Tommy
- Crosby, Stills and Nash
- Whitney Houston
- Simon & Garfunkel
- Barbra Streisand
Film lighting
Fisher has designed theatrical lighting for many film features. Designs include:
- A Star is Born (1976)
- The Rose (1979)
- Can't Stop the Music (1980)
- Chicago (2002)
- The Producers (2005)
- Dreamgirls (2006)
- Enchanted(2007)
- Burlesque(2010)
Fisher can be seen as himself lighting a show in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979).
Tony Award wins
for Best Lighting Design:
- 1973 Pippin
- 1974 Ulysses in Nighttown
- 1978 Dancin'
- 1990 Grand Hotel
- 1991 The Will Rogers Follies
- 1992 Jelly's Last Jam
- 1996 Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk(shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2004 Assassins (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2013 Lucky Guy (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
Tony Award nominations
for Best Lighting Design:
- 1972 Jesus Christ Superstar
- 1976 Chicago
- 1978 Beatlemania
- 1978 Dancin' (Best Musical, as producer)
- 1984 La Cage aux Folles
- 1986 Song & Dance
- 1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- 1994 Angels in America: Perestroika
- 1998 Ragtime (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2000 Marie Christine and The Wild Party (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2001 Jane Eyre (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2016 Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2018 The Iceman Cometh (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2018 Once on this Island(shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2019 Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
References
- ^ a b filmreference.com biography
- ^ "Jules Fisher – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
- ^ Rothstein, Mervyn."A Life in the Theatre: Lighting Designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer", playbill.com, June 23, 2005
External links
- Jules Fisher at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jules Fisher at IMDb
- Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer papers and designs, 1960-2007, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Hair Original Broadway production complete lighting paperwork, light plot, hookup, shop order, focus charts, magic sheets and production notes at the New York Public Library Theatrical Lighting Database
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