Jules Fisher

Jules Fisher

Jules Fisher (born November 12, 1937) is an award-winning lighting designer and producer. He is credited with lighting designs for more than 200 productions over the course of his 45 year career in Broadway and off-Broadway shows, as well extensive work in film, ballet, opera, television, and rock-and-roll concert tours. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/42/Jules-Fisher.html filmreference.com biography] ] He has been nominated 18 times for Tony Awards (as a lighting designer) and won eight Tony awards for Lighting Design, more than any other lighting designer. [ [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/dyk/index.html Tony Awards archive] ]

Biography

Fisher was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology. [Rothstein, Mervyn. [http://www.playbill.com/features/article/93707.html "A Life in the Theatre: Lighting Designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer",] playbill.com, June 23, 2005] He is married to choreographer-director Graciela Daniele. He has been in a professional partnership with lighting designer Peggy Eisenhauer since 1985, and they formed Third Eye Ltd, a firm specializing in entertainment and theatre lighting. He is also a principal in the consulting firm Fisher Dachs Associates and teaches at The New School.

tage work (selected)

*"Anyone Can Whistle" (1964)
*"High Spirits" (1964)
*"The Subject Was Roses" (1964)
*"Do I Hear a Waltz?" (1965)
*"You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running" (1967)
*"The Man in the Glass Booth" (1968)
*"Jesus Christ Superstar" (1971)
*"Pippin" (1972)
*"The Iceman Cometh" (1973)
*"Liza (Special)" (1974)
*"Chicago" (1975)
*"Hair" (1977)
*"La Cage aux Folles" (1983)

with Peggy Eisenhauer

*"Song and Dance" (1985)
*"Rags" (1986)
*"Legs Diamond" (1988)
*"Ragtime" (1998)
*"Gypsy" (2003)
*"Assassins" (2004)
*"The Ritz" (2007)
*"9 to 5" (2008)

Concert work

Fisher has worked with many popular musicians on their concerts and tours including:
*The Rolling Stones
*KISS
*David Bowie
*The Who's "Tommy"
*Crosby Stills and Nash
*Whitney Houston
*Simon and Garfunkel
*Barbra Streisand

Film lighting

Fisher has designed theatrical lighting for many film features. Designs include "Dreamgirls", "A Star is Born", "Chicago", "The Rose", "The Producers (2005 film)", "Can't Stop The Music" and "Enchanted".

Fisher can be seen as himself lighting a show in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz.

Tony Award wins

for Best Lighting Design:
*1973 "Pippin"
*1974 "Ulysses in Nighttown"
*1978 "Dancin'"
*1990 "Grand Hotel"
*1991 "The Will Rogers Follies"
*1992 "Jelly's Last Jam"
*1996 "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
*2004 "Assassins" (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)

Tony Award nominations

for Best Lighting Design:
*1972 "Jesus Christ Superstar"
*1976 "Chicago"
*1978 "Beatlemania"
*1978 "Dancin'" (Best Musical, as producer)
*1984 "La Cage aux Folles"
*1986 "Song & Dance"
*1993 ""
*1994 ""
*1998 "Ragtime" (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)
*2000 "Marie Christine" and "The Wild Party" (shared with partner Peggy Eisenhauer)

References

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=7001 Jules Fisher Internet Broadway Database listing]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279605/ Internet Movie Database listing]

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