Jane Cox
Adjunct Professor, Lighting Design

Jane Cox is a lighting designer for theatre, dance and opera. She grew up in Ireland and spent a year abroad at UMass Amherst, living in Butterfield and studying with the wonderful Penny Remsen, all of which convinced her to move to the US in 1993.  Recent theatre in New York includes: Dame Edna on Broadway and designs for Brooklyn Academy of Music; Playwrights Horizons; Signature Theatre; New York Theatre Workshop; Vineyard Theatre; Primary Stages, CSC.  Regional theatre includes designs for the Guthrie; Arena Stage; McCarter; Long Wharf; Seattle Rep; Denver Center; Alliance Theatre and the Minnesota Opera among many others. She works in Ireland with the Corn Exchange Theatre Company. Jane has long term collaborations with the choreographers Doug Varone, David Dorfman and Monica Bill Barnes, and more recently also designs for Eliot Feld. Last year Jane taught theatre design at Princeton and dance lighting design at Sarah Lawrence College, as well as several classes at Williams College. She is thrilled to this year be returning to her alma mater to teach Penny Remsen's students for a year!  Jane received her MFA from NYU in 1998, was a recipient of the TCG/NEA Career Development award 2001-3, the resident lighting designer for the O'Neill Playwrights Festival 2000-3, and has been nominated for several lighting awards including the Lortel Award and the Audelco Award.