Dan Weingarten is a Los Angeles-based designer who has created lighting for over 400 productions. credits include: Rock of Ages (LA and Las Vegas Productions) Romeo and Juliet dir. Michael Michetti (Boston Court, Ovation Nominee), The Rover (Actors Gang, Garland Award), Great Men of Science (The Lost Studio, Garland and LA Weekly Award), Catch the Fish (New School for Drama, Winner NY Fringe Festival). Dan recently created the lighting design for The Santa Barbara Theater's production of Doubt, East West Players production of Pippin, and the new musical Opa! Presented in New York's Midtown International Theater Festival.
Inthe area of dance, Dan has designed lighting for the Edge Performing Arts Center's Scholarship show since 1992, where he has collaborated with dozens of noted choreographers. He has also designed lighting for Instincts choreographer, Liz Imperio, Tapsounds Underground choreographer, Gregg Russell, With Passion choreographer, Alex Magno, Bound choreographer, Michael Mizraney. Dan has also designed lights for Francisco Martinez Dancetheater and several productions of the Nutcracker.
Dan has also designed for the Long Beach Opera's production of Wintereise, seen in Long Beach, Ca and Austin, Tx, a site-specific project including a production of Orpheus and Euridice, which was staged in an enormous swimming pool, and the LBO's production of Anne Frank, performed in various parking structures.
No stranger to award shows, Dan has also designed lighting for the Ovation Awards, LA Weekly Awards and The American Choreography Awards. Dan also designed lighting at trade shows around the world for Line 6.
In the area of production management, Dan was the stage manager for the NewWest Symphony, including their performances at the Kodak Theater and their west coast tour with Andre Bocelli. He also served as stage manager for Shaklee industrials for several years, and was an Associate Producer in the entertainment department for Universal Studio's theme park in Osaka, Japan.
At Loyola Marymount University, Dan is a member of the faculty who teaches classes in stage management and lighting design for the theater. He also serves as the lighting designer for Universal Studios Hollywood's Theatrical Operations unit. He received his MFA in Lighting Design from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
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