Brian Nason

Brian Nason, lighting designer for Dead Man Walking, made his Houston Grand Opera debut with lighting for Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers in 2008. His lighting for Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally has been seen at New York City Opera, Opera Pacific, and the opera companies of Cincinnati, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Austin and Baltimore. He has also lit Bernstein’s West Side Story at Teatro alla Scala and in Lebanon and Japan; Richard Strauss’s Salome at New York City Opera; and Heggie’s The End of the Affair at Madison Opera. He has designed lighting for numerous Broadway productions, including On Golden Pond featuring James Earl Jones, Fortune’s Fool, Taller Than a Dwarf with Matthew Broderick, and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera with Sting. Also on Broadway, he designed lighting for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country and for Kafka’s Metamorphosis with Mikhael Baryshnikov, which was nominated for a Tony Award. He has also designed lighting extensively for Off-Broadway productions, including Shakespeare’s Richard II and Charlayne Woodard’s Neat, both of which earned Audelco nominations, and Ira Levin’s Cantorial, which was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award.