Marcus Dilliard
Lighting Design

Dilliard’s window is a condensed look at the process of lighting design using two very different Jungle productions: Ride the Cyclone and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

Miss Bennet is a study in realistic lighting - daylight, moonlight and candlelight; while Cyclone is a study in non-realistic, deliberately unrealistic and often necessarily supernatural lighting.

Exploring the early part of the process (the light plots) thru the final results (production photos), the display also features some of Dilliard’s favorite resources and technologies, from (fake) candles to LED fixtures.

About Marcus

Marcus has designed for theatre and opera across North America and in Europe, most recently seen as the lighting designer for the Jungle Theater's A Doll’s House, Part 2, Penumbra Theater’s White Card and Dallas Theater Center’s Little Women. He has designed numerous productions for the Jungle Theater, the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Opera, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, The Moving Company, Theater Latté Da, Penumbra Theatre, Minnesota Orchestra, Children’s Theatre Company, Ordway Music Theater, Minnesota Dance Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has also designed for the Spoleto Festival (Italy); the Athens Festival, Lyric Opera Kansas City, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, Flanders Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Pacific, Pittsburgh Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Vancouver Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Canadian Opera Company, Chicago Opera Theater, and Boston Lyric Opera. Marcus is the recipient of an Ivey Award, a Sage Award, and two McKnight Theater Artist Fellowships. He is a professor in the department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota and is a graduate of Boston University’s School for the Arts.