Douglas Cox Lighting Design
Doug Cox is an Award winning Lighting Designer for the Theater, Opera, Dance, Television, Architecture with over 30 years of experience.
Theater and Opera Designs include Footloose for American Stage, Sweet Lorraine and Mother Emmanuel (Best Musical, New York Fringe Festival) for Rebel Theater, Little Rock for the Passage Theatre, The Wiz for Arkansas Rep, Rigoletto and Elektra for Baltimore Opera, Otello, Macbeth and Aida for Syracuse Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Boheme and Il Tabarro/Gianni Schicchi for Connecticut Grand Opera, the New York premiere of Kirke Mechem’s Tartuffe, the Con Man, Il Camponello di Notte/L’Aio dell Imbarazzo at the Manhattan School of Music and the co-design of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express at the Las Vegas Hilton.
He designed the Off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love and Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare and Company. For New York City Children’s Theater/Making Books Sing, which is dedicated to promoting Theater and Literacy to NYC schoolchildren, he has designed nine productions, most recently Young Charles Dickens, Ballerina Swan, Tea with Chachaji and Sky Boys. He has designed countless benefits and charitable events, featuring headliners such as Petula Clark, Leslie Uggams, Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love, Lesley Gore, Gloria Gaynor, Ben Vereen, Melba Moore, Lillias White, Lainie Kazan, Bo Diddley, Tom Wopat, Faith Prince, Anne Hampton Calloway, Heather Macrae, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many others.
Doug has recently been working as a Television Lighting Director for ABC’s “Good Morning America”, “GMA3”, “The View” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”. His television credits as a Senior Lighting Designer with the Lighting Design Group include an Emmy Award for NBC’s 2012 “Election Night on Democracy Plaza”. He was Lighting Director for the “Today Show” at Denver’s Invesco/Mile High Stadium covering Barack Obama’s historic Acceptance Speech at the 2008 Democratic Convention. He designed New York Studios for Al Jazeera America, Current TV and Arise TV. Other television credits include “NBA on TNT”, episodes of “Sesame Street”, "Charlie Rose" and ABC’s “Good Morning America Summer Concert Series” (featuring Artists from the Broadway cast of “Come From Away” and "The Great Comet" to Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez and The Backstreet Boys). He has also worked on News Programs such as PBS's "Moyers and Company", CNN’s “Larry King Live” and “Anderson Cooper”; MSNBC’s “Hardball” and “Deborah Norville Tonight”, along with NY1’s political debates. Other credits includes “Judge Judy”, “Montel Williams” and Bloomberg Television’s New York studios.
He designs energy efficient theaters and broadcast studios, most recently a renovation of the IBM Watson Center Auditorium, designed by legendary architect Eero Saarinen, and the news studios for New Jersey Public Television.
On Broadway, he was Associate / Assistant Designer for 17 productions, including the Tony Award winning Best Musicals Avenue Q and Titanic, and the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning Best Play, Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers. He has assisted such noted designers as Tharon Musser, Don Holder, David Hersey, Paul Gallo, Neil Peter Jampolis, Jane Reisman, Beverly Emmons, Dennis Parichy, Frances Aronson, Marc Weiss, Paul Pyant and many others.
His work in Architectural Lighting with Focus Lighting includes Project Designer for the Mohegan Sun Casino and the Planet Hollywood Restaurants. At Focus, he was Project Designer for the exterior lighting of the 40 story Entel Tower in Santiago, Chile, which received the Lumen Award, IESNA Waterbury Award and IALD Citation. Related experience in Theater Consulting and Architecture includes work with Theater Consultant Sachs Morgan Studios on the renovation of the Kennedy Center.
He studied at Fordham University and New York University, with additional studies at the Studio and Forum of Stage Design and the Art Students League. He has also been a Guest Speaker at the annual Conventions of USITT and LDI. He has been published in LD+A Magazine and his work covered in Lighting Dimensions, Lighting and Sound America and other industry journals.
He is active off-stage in the Theatre Community with United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829, IATSE, the Labor Union representing Designers and Scenic Artists for the American Theater and co-chairs the Lighting Design Exam Committee. He is also a member of NABET, Local 16.