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Alexander Nichols
Designer Alexander V. Nichols, is a Berkeley, California native. In theater, Nichols’ credits include designs for American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Arena Stage (Washington D.C.), Alley Theater (Houston,TX), Center Stage (Baltimore, MD), Huntington Theater Co. (Boston, MA), California Shakespeare Festival, National Theater of Taiwan and The Culture Project (NYC). Recent Bay Area projects include Marga Gomez’s Los Big Names, Charles Mee’s Fete De La Nuit and Culture Clash’s Zorro In Hell.
In the dance world, his credits are equally impressive. He joined the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in 1986 as Technical Director and has since designed scenery and lighting for 14 pieces including Georgia Stone, The Gates, May I N, and DANGER ORANGE. He served as Resident Designer for Pennsylvania Ballet, Hartford Ballet, American Repertory Ballet and as Lighting Director for American Ballet Theatre. Other dance credits include San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Hubbard Street, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Axis, Zaccho, ODC/SF, Cincinnati Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. He has collaborated with choreographers Christopher d’Amboise, Ann Carlson, Val Caniparoli, Sonya Delwaide, Marguerite Donlon, Joe Goode, Bill T. Jones, Jean Grand Maitre, Mark Morris, Mikko Nissinen, Kevin O’Day, Kirk Peterson, Stephen Petronio, Dwight Rhoden, Michael Smuin and Brenda Way.
Nichols’ experience also reaches to live music where he got his start by assisting Lighting Designer Harri Kouvenen in the garage band days of the heavy metal bands Metallica, Exodus and Laaz Rockit. He has since developed collaborations with: Kronos Quartet, The Paul Dresher Ensemble, performance artist Rinde Eckert and Gamelan Sekar Jaya. He also designed the lighting for “Aid and Comfort II”, an AIDS benefit in collaboration with Eiko Ishioka featuring Laurie Anderson, Herbie Hancock, Philip Glass, John Adams and the Kronos Quartet.
Nichols created the exterior lighting design for the Sentinel Building, Francis Ford Coppola's historic headquarters in San Francisco and is presently designing the lighting for the courtyard fountain at the Niebaum Coppola Winery in Napa, CA. He is currently structural/lighting designer for “Circle Of Memory”, an installation project created with Eleanor Coppola, Richard Beggs, Jean McMann, Elizabeth Macdonald and Robilee Frederick.
Awards include four Isadora Duncan Awards, a Bay Area Critics Circle Award and four Dean Goodman Awards.
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