jane cox, director of theater program at princeton
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May 22, 2017
Jane Cox, Director of Theater Program at Princeton,
nominated for second Tony Award Lighting designer recognized for her work on the Broadway production of
August Wilson’s play Jitney
Photo caption: Jane Cox, professional lighting designer and Director of the Program in Theater at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts Photo credit: Evan Alexander
(Princeton, NJ) Jane Cox, Director of the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater at
Princeton University has been nominated for a Tony Award for her lighting design of the
Broadway production of August Wilson’s play Jitney. In addition to her work as a professional
lighting designer, Cox has served as a lecturer in the Program in Theater since 2007 and was
appointed as Director in July 2016. She was also recently nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award
for her lighting design of New York Theatre Workshop’s production of Othello starring Daniel
Craig and David Oyelowo.
The Tony Awards are given for Broadway productions and performances and are selected by a
committee made up of select members of the American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League,
the Dramatists Guild, Actors' Equity Association, United Scenic Artists, and the Society of Stage
Directors and Choreographers. Founded in 1947, this prestigious award celebrates excellence in
Broadway theater.
Jane Cox has received numerous awards for her work as a lighting designer and recently
received the Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women and
was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical for the
recent Broadway revival of The Color Purple, directed by fellow Princeton faculty member John
Doyle. Other recent projects include the National Theatre’s production of Hamlet with Benedict
Cumberbatch in London, directed by Lyndsey Turner, for which she was awarded the 2016
Onstage Award, and the new musical Amelie, directed by Pam MacKinnon. Cox was nominated
for the Tony and Drama Desk awards in 2014 for her work on Machinal at the Roundabout
Theater. She was also the most nominated designer in any discipline for the Henry Hewes
Design Awards, being nominated for her designs for Machinal; All the Way at the Neil Simon
(Tony Award for Best Play); and Dinner with Friends.
Originally hailing from Dublin, Ireland, Cox has taught courses at New York University’s Tisch
School of the Arts graduate program in theater design; Vassar College; Sarah Lawrence College;
University of Massachusetts Amherst; and workshops at universities all over the country and at
the Kennedy Center. She is represented in the book Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of
Women Designing for Live Performance.
The 71st annual Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS, live from the Radio City Music Hall in
New York City, on Sunday, June 11.
To learn more about the Program in Theater, Lewis Center faculty, and the more than 100
performances, exhibitions, readings, screenings, concerts and lectures annually presented at the
Lewis Center, most of them free, visit arts.princeton.edu.
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