John Torres

(lighting designer)

John Torres is a New York-based lighting designer who works across theatre, dance, film, and media. In opera, he has collaborated on numerous productions, including “Turandot” (Paris Opera), “Tristan and Isolde” (Santa Fe Opera), Meredith Monk’s “Atlas” (Disney Hall, LA Philharmonic), “Eden” with Joyce DiDonato (Bozar, Brussels), and “Der Messias” (Salzburg Festival). His theatre works includes “The Mile Long Opera” (High Line, NYC), “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” (BAM, Brooklyn), “The Black Clown” (A.R.T., Cambridge); “Only an Octave Apart” and “Hamlet” (St. Ann’s Warehouse, NYC), and “Help: A New Play” by Claudia Rankine (The Shed, NYC). In the music industry, Torres has worked with artists such as Drake, Solange Knowles as well as Florence and the Machine. In dance, his projects include “Available Light” (Lucinda Childs, Théâtre de la Ville), “Lost Mountain” and “Broken Theatre” (Bobbi Jene Smith, La Mama), “Toss and Rogues”, Trisha Brown (Théâtre National de Chaillot), “Bottega Veneta” (Detroit), and “Gucci Love Parade” (Los Angeles). For exhibitions, Torres has collaborated with Adam Pendleton on “Who is Queen?” (MoMA, New York) and with Carl Craig on “Party/After Party” (Dia: Beacon).