Allen Willner

Allen Willner is a lighting designer for Theater, Dance and Opera. He has lived and worked in San Francisco and New York as a Lighting Designer for 20 years. Locally he has designed for many Bay Area Dance companies including Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project, inkBoat, Garrett Moulton Productions, Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Katie Faulkner’s Little Seismic Dance Company, Kristin Damrow and Company, ABD Productions, Moving Ground and Epifany Dance Theater. Regional designs include The Arizona Theater Company, The Guthrie Theater, The Chicago MOMA, REDCAT, The Cleveland Public Theater, 59E59th Street Theater, Playmakers Repertory Co, Brown University and The Philadelphia Theater Company. International designs include Dock 11, Potsdam Fabrique, Pfefferberg Berlin, Goyang Opera House, Seoul Korea, and Berkeley Street Theater, Toronto, ON. Awards and nominations include: San Francisco TBA Award Lighting Design Awards: We Player’s Beowulf, Shotgun Players Eurydice, Theater of Yugen's This Lingering Life, SF Playhouse The Obligation. Bay Area Critics Circle Lighting Design Nominations for The Shotgun Players Eurydice and God’s Ear, Broadway World Lighting and Set Design Nomination for Symmetry Theater’s Patience Worth. Isadora Duncan Dance Awards for the lighting design of inkBoat’s Line Between, Heaven’s Radio and Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s Private Life.