Kaczorowski, Peter

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KACZOROWSKI, Peter


PERSONAL


Career: Lighting designer.


Awards, Honors: Outer Critics Circle Award, outstanding lighting design, 1997, for Steel Pier; Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award, both outstanding lighting design, 2000, for Contact; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, outstanding lighting design, 2000, for Kiss Me, Kate; Hewes Design Award, outstanding lighting design, 2000, for Contact, Kiss Me, Kate, and The Music Man; Antoinette Perry Award, Drama Desk Award nomination, and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, all outstanding lighting design, 2001, for The Producers.


CREDITS


Stage Lighting Designer:

A Midsummer Night's Dream, New York Shakespeare Festival, Anspacher Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 19871988.

Loose Ends, Second Stage Theatre, McGinnCazale Theatre, New York City, 1988.

Two Rooms, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA, 1988.

Italian American Reconciliation, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, New York City, 1988.

The Forbidden City, New York Shakespeare Festival, LuEsther Hall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1989.

Romance in Hard Times, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1989.

Bad Habits, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, 1990.

Song of Singapore, Song of Singapore Theatre, New York City, 1991.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1991.

The Homecoming, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, New York City, 1991.

Bubbe Meises, Bubbe Stories, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 19921993.

A Small Family Business, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1992.

The Showoff, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 1992.

The Years, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, 19921993.

Candida, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 1993.

Tapestry: The Music of Carole King, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 1993.

Wrong Turn at Lungfish, Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1993.

And Baby Makes Seven, Circle Repertory Company, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1993.

Measure for Measure, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1993.

She Loves Me (musical), Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 19931994 then Savoy Theatre, London, 1994.

The Loman Family Picnic, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, 19931994.

Hit the Lights!, Vineyard Theatre, New York City, 19931994.

Picnic, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 1994.

Those the River Keeps, American Repertory Theatre, Promenade Theatre, 1995.

On the Waterfront, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1995.

The Play's the Thing, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 1995.

Company (musical), Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 1995.

Twelve Dreams, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1995.

The Monogomist, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1995.

Death Defying Acts, Variety Arts Theatre, New York City, 19951996.

Jam on the Groove, Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 19951996.

Du Barry Was a Lady (concert), City Center Theatre, New York City, 1996.

One Touch of Venus (concert), City Center Theatre, 1996.

Below the Belt, John Houseman Theatre, New York City, 1996.

Steel Pier (musical), Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York City, 1997.

Three Sisters, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 1997.

Violet, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1997.

The Boys from Syracuse (concert), City Center Theatre, 1997.

Jackie, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 19971998, then London production.

Honour, Belasco Theatre, 1998.

Ah, Wilderness!, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1998.

Gunshy, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1998.

The Uneasy Chair, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1998.

The Primary English Class, Minetta Lane Theatre, 1998.

Impossible Marriage, Roundabout Theatre Company, Laura Pels Theatre, New York City, 19981999.

Babes in Arms (concert), City Center Theatre, 1999.

Scent of the Roses, Belasco Theatre, 19992000.

The Rainmaker, Roundabout Theatre Company, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 19992000.

Kiss Me, Kate (musical), Martin Beck Theatre (now Al Hirschfeld Theatre), New York City, 19992001, then Victoria Palace Theatre, London, 2001.

Contact (musical), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 19992000, then Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, c. 20002002, later London production.

Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA, c. 2000.

The Music Man (musical), Dodger Theatricals, Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 20002001.

Thou Shalt Not (musical), Plymouth Theatre, New York City, 20012002.

The Producers (musical), Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2001, then St. James Theatre, New York City, beginning 2001, later London production.

My Old Lady, Promenade Theatre, 2002.

Carnival (musical), City Center Theatre, 2002.

Golden Boy (musical), City Center Theatre, 2002.

Master Harold ... and the Boys, Roundabout Theatre Company, Royale Theatre, New York City, 2003.

House of Flowers, City Center Theatre, 2003.

Dream a Little Dream, Village Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Anna in the Tropics, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, 2003, then Royale Theatre, beginning 2003.

Wonderful Town (musical), Al Hirschfeld Theatre, beginning 2003.

The Caretaker, American Airlines Theatre, New York City, 20032004.

Twentieth Century, Roundabout Theatre Company, American Airlines Theatre, 2004.


Lighting designer for The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, and The Taming of the Shrew, all New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York City; An American Life, London production; Grandchild of Kings, offBroadway production; Mrs. Warren's Profession, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN; and Night and Her Stars, Manhattan Theatre Club. Also lighting designer for productions at Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT.


Lighting Designer; Operas:

The Elixir of Love, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 1982.

Cosi fan tutte, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1982.

Maddalena, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1982.

La Verbena de la paloma, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1982.

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1982, then Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1983.

The Pirates of Penzance, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1982.

La Traviata, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1983.

Don Giovanni, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1983.

Margot la rouge, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1983.

Las Mamelles de Tiresias, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1983.

Beatrice and Benedict, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1983.

Die Fledermaus, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1983.

The Magic Flute, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1984.

Madame Butterfly, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1984.

Orfeo and Euridice, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1984.

Paul Bunyan, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1984.

The Mikado, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1984.

The Barber of Seville, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1985.

Joruri, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1985.

Idomeneo, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1985.

The Woodlanders, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1985.

The Tales of Hoffmann, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1986.

The Abduction from the Seraglio, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1986.

A Death in the Family, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1986.

The Journey to Rheims, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1986.

Carmen, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1987.

Alcina, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1987.

Cinderella, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1987.

Beauty and the Beast, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1987.

The Gondoliers, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1987.

La Boheme, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1988.

Vanessa, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1988.

La Finta giardiniera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1988.

Oberon, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 1988.

Joruri, Nissei Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, 1988.

The Ring Cycle, Seattle Opera, Seattle, WA, 2001.


Lighting designer for other Seattle Opera productions, including The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, and Xerxes; also lighting designer for operas produced in England and Europe, and at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City.


Lighting Designer; Major Tours:

Designed lighting for U.S. tours of Contact, Kiss Me, Kate, and The Producers.


OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

American Theatre, November, 2001, p. 23.

Lighting Dimensions, October 1, 2001; December 1, 2003.