Tom
Sturge has designed the lighting for over three hundred productions
across the country and around world over the past twenty three years
ago. He graduated from Boston University and attended the University
of Pennsylvania. After working in and around the New York City area
for over twenty years, he recently re-located to the Seattle area.
Tom has designed many shows for the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle,
including West Side Story, White
Christmas and Hair. Currently
he is lighting Mame and designing the
set and lights for their new production of Cabaret,
which also plays in San Jose and the Ordway Center in St. Paul,
Minnesota. Seattle area designs include the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Center Holiday Gala, The Mojo and
the Sayso at ACT, High School Musical
at the Seattle Children's Theatre, and sets and lights for Evita
at the Village Theatre. Broadway
credits include Those
Were the Days
at the Edison Theatre and Gypsy
Passion
at
the Plymouth.
Other recent
New York credits include the premieres of Everybody’s
Ruby
starring
Phylicia Rashad at the Public Theatre, and Amazing
Grace
starring
Marsha Mason at the Blue Light Theatre Company. Regional credits
include For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is
Enuf at CenterStage,
Baltimore, Cyrano de Bergerac, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
and
Fences
at
the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Over the Tavern Parts I, II, &
III
at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre, The
Pajama Game
at the Goodspeed Opera House, and ART
and
Medea at
the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Off-Broadway
credits include Three
Postcards
and
The
Size of the World
for Circle Repertory; Sheba
and
Theda
Bara and the Frontier Rabbi
at Playhouse
91; and
Henry V,
Richard II and
Agamemnon
for
La Mama ETC.
Dance designs include Slaves
for
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Idol Obsession
for
Ballet Hispanico.
Regional credits include the Huntington Theatre, Cincinatti
Playhouse; Boston Lyric Opera, Denver Center; Studio Theatre in
Washington D.C.; the Olney Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Papermill Playhouse
in New Jersey; Capital Repertory Company in Albany; Walnut Street
Theatre in Philadelphia; Theatre-by-the-Sea in Rhode Island; and
Merrimack Repertory and the North Shore Music Theatre outside of
Boston.
National tours include Nickelodeon's Go Diego
Go, Dora the Explorer and Blue's Clues,
Dreamgirls, two
Heartstrings
AIDS benefit tours, Crazy
for You, Singin’ in the
Rain, and The
Wizard of Oz.
International credits include the European
tour of Funny
Girl,
Kiss of the Spider Woman
in Mexico City, Pasión
Gitano
at Seville's EXPO’94 in Spain, and Porgy and Bess
in the Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii. Corporate designs include
Microsoft, American Express, Merrill Lynch, and Bristol Meyers amongst
many others. Mr. Sturge was the head of the lighting design program
at Boston University from 1994 through 2004. He now lives in Issaquah,
Washington with his wife, fine artist Darci Dille, and their son
Dylan.