JULIE DURO, lighting designer
Ms. Duro has worked with many opera, dance and theatre companies throughout the United States. Her work in opera includes designs for the Santa Fe Opera, Opera International in Washington, D.C., Opera Illinois, Dayton Opera, Triangle Opera Theatre, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Florida State Opera, Houston’s Ebony Opera Guild and the Connecticut Opera where her designs were seen this past spring in productions of Cosi Fan Tutte and Don Pasquale. She has worked extensively at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT where she designed the lighting for A Word or Two Before You Go, a one-man show written by and starring Christopher Plummer, and The Member of the Wedding directed by Joanne Woodward. Her work in dance encompasses designs for North Carolina Dance Theatre, the Australian Ballet, Southern Ballet Theatre, Dances Patrelle, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. She was the resident lighting designer for the critically acclaimed Ohio Ballet from 1996 to 1999, and she works frequently with Tulsa Ballet, where she designed the lighting for Swan Lake last April and with Pittsburgh Ballet, where her work can be seen each year in The Nutcracker. In addition she has designed lighting for Luna Stage, Artpark, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, the Asolo Conservatory in Florida, and the Juilliard School, and she is the resident lighting designer for the yearly Salute to the Presidential Scholars in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center.