Yuriy Nayer (Lighting Designer) was born in Belarus, but has proudly called New York his home for almost 15 years. Yuriy works as a Lighting Designer for live performing arts in New York as well as abroad. International Credits include:
Werevertumorro, a new theatrical event based on a hugely popular Mexican video blog (Mexico);
Anjou, the musical (Korea, China, Mexico);
The Store – YaaSamar! Dance Theatre (Jordan, Palestine, Israel). Other recent Dance Credits:
Disappearances (World Premier/ MMAC) by Paul Sanasardo; recreated the lighting for Jane Dudley’s
Harmonica Breakdown and
Time Is Money, also at MMAC. Select New York Theatre Credits:
The Shaggs (Playwrights Horizons);
Bridgeboy (The Active Theatre);
The Mire and
With Aaron’s Arms Around Me (Negro Ensemble Company/ Cherry Lane Theatre);
I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates, a staged reading to benefit Safe Horizon (Gerald W. Lynch Theatre);
Being Sellers (59E59/ Brits Off-Broadway);
Parenting101, the musical (Emelin Theatre);
348 (Dixon Place);
Interchange (The Workshop Theatre);
In Loco Parentis (FringeNYC ‘10);
Colored People’s Time (NEC/ MITF ’10 Best Lighting Design Award);
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Planet Connections Festivity Best Lighting Design Award);
Two Rooms (The Active Theatre);
The Sandbox (June Havoc Theatre/ MITF’ 09);
The Night Watcher (Primary Stages). Other credits: The Runt of the Litter National Tour.
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