Korf, Geoff

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KORF, Geoff


PERSONAL


Education: California State University, Chico, graduated; Yale School of Drama, M.F.A., 1991.


Career: Lighting designer. University of Washington, Seattle, member of design faculty; also taught lighting design at California Institute for the Arts and the University of Michigan.


Member: United Scenic Artists Local #829.


Awards, Honors: L.A. Ovation Award nomination, best lighting designintimate theater, 2000, for An Antigone Story; L.A. Ovation Award nomination, best lighting design (large theatre), 2002, for Crossings, Journey of Catholic Immigrants; NAACP Award nomination, best lighting design, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 2001, for Weights.


CREDITS


Stage Lighting Designer:

Two Trains Running, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1992.

(Untitled) Lindbergh, Portland Stage, Portland, ME, 1992.

Trouble in Tahiti, Tulsa Opera, OK, 1995.

The Imaginary Invalid, Long Beach Theater, Carpenter Center, Long Beach, CA, 1999.

Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Long Beach Theater, Carpenter Center, 1999.

Summer Moon, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, 1999.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN, 2000.

Amy's View, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Costa Mesa, CA, 2000.

Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Geffen Playhouse, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.

Euridice, Long Beach Theater, Carpenter Center, 2000.

Elektra, Long Beach Theater, Carpenter Center, 2001.

Powder Her Face, Long Beach Theater, Carpenter Center, 2001.

Hold Please, South Coast Repertory, 2001.

Making It, South Coast Repertory, 2002.

Sugar Plum Fairy, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA, 20022003.

Once upon a Forest, Children's Theatre Company, Mainstage, Minneapolis, MN, 2003.


Also designed lighting for Weights, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles; Peer Gynt, Guthrie Lab, MN; Bandido, Mark Taper Forum; Mules, Mark Taper Forum; Street at the Sun, Mark Taper Forum; The Snow Queen, Stage One, Louisville, KY; Alexander and the Terrible, Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis; Horrible, Children's Theatre Company; No Good, Children's Theatre Company; Very Bad Day, Children's Theatre Company; A Village Fable, Children's Theatre Company; Whale, Children's Theatre Company; Mary Shelley's Santa Claus, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA; Hedda Gabler, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR; Crossings, Journey of Catholic Immigrants, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles; An Antigone Story, Cornerstone Theatre Company at the Historic Subway Terminal Building; The Cosmonaut's Last Message, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA; A California Seagull, Cornerstone Theatre Company; Candude, Cornerstone Theatre Company; The Yellow Boat; Bocon!; Swell, Evidence Room Theatre Project; Foot/Mouth, Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, CA; Los Biombos/The Screens, Cornerstone Theater Company; For Here or To Go, Cornerstone Theatre Company.