Kenneth Posner

Kenneth Posner is an award winning American theatrical lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in American regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals "Wicked" and "Hairspray", both currently running on Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for "The Coast of Utopia" (2007), "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (2005), "Wicked" (2004), "Hairspray" (2003), and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (2001). He won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play for "The Coast of Utopia" in 2007. He has also been nominated for the Drama Desk Award in Lighting (first in 1991), and has received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting. Currently, he is working on the lighting designs for the soon to open Broadway revival of "Grease".

Posner was educated at SUNY Purchase, where Brian MacDevitt also attended. He is a 1983 graduate of Eastchester High School in Eastchester, New York. He also attended Boston University's School of Fine Arts.

Posner is a resident of Verona, New Jersey. [ [http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/whoswho/biography/1268.html KENNETH POSNER] , "Playbill". Accessed January 11, 2008. "He resides in Verona, New Jersey, with his wife Michelle and their three children."]

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* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=25851 Kenneth Posner] at the [http://www.ibdb.com/ internet bway database]