Ingalls, John F.

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INGALLS, John F.

PERSONAL

Born in the United States. Education: Attended University of Connecticut; studied drama at Yale University.

Career: Lighting designer. Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, worked as resident stage manager; stage manager for choreographer Twyla Tharp, beginning 1978; Celebration of Yourself (concerts for young people), stage manager and lighting designer, beginning 1980; American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, resident lighting director at Loeb Drama Center, 1981–84. Glyndebourne Productions, Ltd., Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, England, lighting designer, beginning 1987; Mark Morris Dance Group, lighting designer, beginning 1987; lighting designer for other dance companies, including Boston Ballet, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, St. Joseph Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and White Oak Ballet. Guest lecturer at California Institute of the Arts, New York University, University of Connecticut, and University of California, San Diego.

Awards, Honors: Obie Award, Village Voice, lighting design, 1987; Helen Hayes Awards, Washington Theatre Awards Society, outstanding lighting design in a resident production, 1986, for The Count of Monte Cristo, 1987, for Ajax, and 1997, for Anthony and Cleopatra; Hewes Design Award nomination and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, American Theatre Wing, both outstanding lighting design, 2002, for The Elephant Man; Lucille Lortel Award nomination, League of Off–Broadway Theatres and Producers, outstanding lighting design, 2003, for My Life with Albertine.

CREDITS

Stage Lighting Designer:

The Impossible H. L. Mencken, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1980.

Geniuses, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1982–1983.

The Visions of Simone Machard, Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA, 1983.

'Night, Mother, John Golden Theatre, New York City, 1983, then Westside Theatre Upstairs, New York City, 1984.

Isn't It Romantic, Playwrights' Horizons, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1983–1985.

All Night Long, Second Stage Theatre, McGinn–Cazale Theatre, New York City, 1984.

The Human Comedy, New York Shakespeare Festival, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1984.

Messiah, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, New York City, 1984–1985.

Anteroom, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, 1985.

Coming of Age in Soho, New York Shakespeare Festival, Martinson Hall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1985.

Cheapside, Roundabout Theatre Company, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 1986.

The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Double Image Theatre Company, Forty–Seventh Street Theatre, New York City, 1986.

Women of Manhattan, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, 1986.

The Count of Monte Cristo, American National Theatre Company, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, c. 1986.

Ajax, American National Theatre Company, Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, 1986, then John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, c. 1987.

Bodies, Rest, and Motion, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1986–1987.

The Electrification of the Soviet Union, Glyndebourne Opera, Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, England, 1987.

On the Verge; or, The Geography of Yearning, Acting Company, John Houseman Theatre, New York City, 1987.

Hamlet, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 1988.

Lighting designer of Act III wedding scene, Le Nozze di Figaro (also known as The Marriage of Figaro ), PepsiCo Summerfare, Theatre B, Performing Arts Center, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, 1988.

The Misanthrope, Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, 1989.

Playboy of the West Indies, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 1993.

The Good Person of Setzuan, Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, 1994.

Slavs! Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Mandell Weiss Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, 1995.

Boy, Mandell Weiss Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, 1996.

A Fair Country, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 1996.

The Night of the Iguana, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Theatre, New York City, 1996.

The Taming of the Shrew, Center Stage, Baltimore, MD, 1996.

Anthony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC, 1996–1997.

The Devils, New York Theatre Workshop, New York City, 1997.

The Importance of Being Earnest, Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, 1997.

The School for Wives, Mandell Weiss Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, 1997.

Wozzeck, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, 1997.

The Young Man from Atlanta, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1997.

Ivanov, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1997–1998.

Chesapeake (solo show), New York Stage and Film, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, then Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 1999.

Goodnight Children Everywhere, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, 1999.

Much Ado about Nothing, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1999.

Red, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New York City, 1999.

The Cherry Orchard, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, 2000.

Closer, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2000.

Nixon in China, English National Opera, London, 2000.

Platee, New York City Opera, 2000.

Valparaiso, Steppenwolf Theatre, 2000.

The Invention of Love, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA, c. 2000.

Garden, Owen Bruner Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 2001.

George Gershwin Alone (solo one–act), Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 2001.

House, Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 2001.

Lady in the Dark, Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, 2001.

Richard II, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 2001.

The Elephant Man, Royale Theatre, 2002.

Further Than the Furthest Thing, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, 2002.

The General from America, Alley Theatre, Houston, TX, then Theatre for a New Audience, Lucille Lortel Theatre, 2002.

A Year with Frog and Toad, Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN, 2002, then New Victory Theatre and Cort Theatre, both New York City, 2003.

Benvenuto Cellini, Metropolitan Opera House, 2003.

Children of Herakles, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 2003.

My Life with Albertine, Playwrights' Horizons Mainstage Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Writer's Block, Atlantic Theatre Company, New York City, 2003.

Salome, Metropolitan Opera House, 2004.

Also lighting designer for A Day in the Life of the Czar; or, I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York City; Christmas on Mars and The Rocket, both Playwrights' Horizons Theatre; The Gambler, Les Troyens, and War and Peace, all Metropolitan Opera House; El Nino, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Theatre, New York City; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, National Theatre, London; Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company, British production; The Boys from Syracuse, Ghosts, Grownups, Major Barbara, The Marriage of Figaro, Mastergate, Once in a Lifetime, Orlando, Rundown, The Seagull, The Seven Deadly Sins, Sganarelle, Traveler in the Dark, True West, and Waiting for Godot, all American Repertory Theatre; Citizen Tom Paine, Idiot's Delight, and A Seagull, all American National Theatre Company, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; The Baltimore Waltz, The Broken Pitcher, Buried Child, Execution of Justice, Fool for Love, Ghosts, Happy End, Les Blancs, Mary Stuart, Native Speech, On the Verge; or, The Geography of Yearning, Our Town, Police Boys, The Taming of the Shrew, and Who They Are and How It Is with Them, all Center Stage, Baltimore, MD; Die Zauberfloete (also known as The Magic Flute ), Idomeneo, and Theodora, all Glynde-bourne Opera; I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky and The Persians, both Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland; Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutti, PepsiCo Summerfare, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; Four Seasons, Boston Ballet; Le Grande Macabre, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria; Oedipus Rex, De Nederlandse Opera (the Netherlands Opera); St. Francis of Assisi, Paris Opera; The Flying Dutchman and War and Peace, Kirov/Maryinsky Opera, Russia; lighting designer for Mathis der Maler; lighting designer for productions at Covent Garden, London, England and other productions at the Guthrie Theatre.

Stage Lighting Designer; with Dance Groups:

Nixon in China, Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX, later produced at Wortham Theatre Workshop, Brown Theatre, New York City, 1987, then John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1988, and De Nederlandse Opera (the Netherlands Opera), 1988.

L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, 1988.

Dido and Aeneas, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, 1989.

Long Song Waltzes, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, 1989.

Wonderland, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, 1989.

Ein Herz, Paris Opera Ballet, Paris Opera House, Paris, 1990.

Motorcade, White Oak Dance Project, Wang Center, Boston, 1990.

Pas de Poisson, Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, 1990.

Death of Klinghoffer, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, 1991.

The Hard Nut, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, 1991.

A Lake, White Oak Dance Project, Filene Center, Wolf Trap Farm Park, Vienna, VA, 1991.

Le Nozze di Figaro, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, 1991.

Beautiful Day, Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom, New York City, 1992.

Bedtime, Dance Umbrella, Emerson Majestic Theatre, Boston, 1992.

Polka, Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom, 1992.

Three Preludes, Dance Umbrella, Emerson Majestic Theatre, 1992.

Maelstrom, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA, 1994.

Pacific, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, 1995.

Sandpaper Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, 1999.

Beyond the Messiah: Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 2002.

Fluid Canvas, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Barbican Theatre, 2002.

Sylvia: A Three–Act Ballet by Mark Morris, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, CA, 2004.

Also lighting designer for the dance productions Motorcade, London Contemporary Dance; and Shoulder to Shoulder, The Place.