Jorge Arroyo
Assistant Professor, Lighting Design
| Jorge Arroyo is a Lighting Designer with over 30 years of experience in theater, dance, concerts, corporate events, opera, and television. His professional credits include The Alley Theatre, The Huntington, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Boston Lyric Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Baltimore Center Stage, The Arden, Westport Country Playhouse, The Civilians, and others. He has created designs for over 50 shows at both the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center for artists such as Alicia Keys, Gabriel Iglesias, The Wayans Brothers, The Chieftains, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Paquito D’Rivera, Phoebe Snow, Stanley Jordan, Kenny Garrett, Jackie Mason, and others. He is the Lighting Director for TEDx New England, the largest independently organized TED event in the US. He has also worked with choreographer Stacey Tookey, three-time Emmy nominee for her choreography on FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance, on her production of Moments Defined in both New York and California. He has co-authored the last three versions of the Lightwright manual and tutorial.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he is one of only a handful of professional lighting designers to hail from the island. He is an organizing member of La Gente: The Latinx/e Theatre Production Network, which works to create visibility, engagement, and advocacy for Latinx/e theatrical designers, technicians, and managers working in the American theater. |
