James F. Ingalls

James F. Ingalls

Lighting

American lighting designer James F. Ingalls creates lighting designs for ballet and modern dance as well as theatre, symphony concerts and opera. He is a welcome guest at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet, where he provided the lighting designs for the operas Only the Sound Remains, La Clemenza di Tito, Girls of the Golden West and Nixon in China, the music theatre production Perle Noire, the full-length ballets Coppelia, Giselle, Don Quixote and several works of the Dutch National Ballet programme Present/s, among others. In addition, he created various lighting designs for the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Mark Morris Dance Group, such as for the productions The Hard Nut, Dido and Aeneas and L'allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and the non-profit dance academy The Wooden Floor in Santa Ana, California. He has also worked for many years with theatre director Garry Hynes, director of the Irish Druid Theatre Company, and opera director Peter Sellars.

Most recently, Ingalls provided the lighting designs for TWYLA NOW at the New York City Center, a new production of George Balanchine's Firebird for Miami City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky's The Sleeping Beauty for American Ballet Theatre and Balletto del Teatro alla Scala, the twelve world premieres presented by San Francisco Ballet in their programme Unbound and, in 2022, for Raymonda by Dutch National Ballet.

Last update: 7 December 2023