Jules Fisher


Jules Fisher is an American lighting designer and producer. He is credited with lighting designs for more than 300 productions over the course of his 60+ year career of Broadway and off-Broadway shows, as well extensive work in film, ballet, opera, television, and rock and roll concert tours. He has been nominated 24 times for Tony Awards, more than any other lighting designer, and won nine Tony awards for Lighting Design, also more than any other lighting designer.

Biography

Fisher was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the son of Anne and Abraham Fisher, a retailer. He is a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology. 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 theatre consulting firm Fisher Dachs Associates, architectural lighting firm Fisher Marantz Stone, and teaches at The New School. Fisher was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2013.

Stage work (selected)

Spoon River Anthology Anyone Can Whistle (musical) High Spirits The Subject Was Roses Do I Hear a Waltz? (musical) Half a Sixpence (musical) Pickwick (musical) You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running The Man in the Glass Booth The Only Game in Town Hair Jesus Christ Superstar (musical) Soon Pippin The Iceman Cometh Liza Chicago Beatlemania

with Peggy Eisenhauer

Song and Dance (Musical) Rags Legs Diamond Ragtime Gypsy School of Rock Assassins The Ritz 9 to 5 Lucky Guy Once on this Island Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus Harmony (musical)

Concert work

Fisher has worked with many popular musicians on their concerts and tours including:

Film lighting

Fisher has designed theatrical lighting for many film features. Designs include:A Star is Born The Rose Can't Stop the Music Chicago The Producers Dreamgirls Enchanted Burlesque
Fisher can be seen as himself lighting a show in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz.

Tony Award wins

for Best Lighting Design:

Tony Award nominations

for Best Lighting Design: