Artist Bio

(Bio as of April 2016)

Kenneth Posner previously designed lighting for the Goodman’s produc­tions of Crowns, Griller and A Touch of the Poet (Jeff Award nomination). Other Chicago credits include Mother Courage and Her Children at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; The Taming of the Shrew, Troilus and Cressida and Richard III at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Fidelio and Electra for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has designed lighting for more than 50 Broadway plays and musicals, including Tuck Everlasting; On Your Feet!; Finding Neverland; Disgraced; If/Then; Pippin; Kinky Boots; Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Harvey; Other Desert Cities; The Columnist; The Best Man; Catch Me If You Can; The Merchant of Venice; The Royal Family; A Life in the Theatre; The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Swing!; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Hairspray; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Legally Blonde; The Odd Couple; Side Man; Glengarry Glen Ross; 9 to 5: The Musical and Wicked. He designs extensively off-Broadway, in resident theaters throughout the United States and internationally. He has received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Crit­ics’ Circle, Jeff and Obie Awards.