Emma Deane
Lighting Designer
Emma Deane is an Indigenous lighting designer based out of NYC, and a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. Recent credits include Confederates (Signature Theatre NYC), Three Sisters, Much Ado About Nothing (Two River Theater); In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theater); Legally Blonde: The Musical (NYU Tisch); and Tiny Beautiful Things (TheatreSquared). Other credits include YELL: A “DOCUMENTARY” OF MY TIME HERE, Reykjavík, Trouble in Mind, shakespeare’s as u like it and Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama); Little Boy/Little Man, Burn Book, The Light Fantastic, Mud, The Guadalupes (Yale Cabaret); Pinocchio: A Folk Musical, Fog Island (Filament Theatre); The Amish Project, Still (Interrobang Theatre Project); Hitler on the Roof, Hand in Hand, Nothing of Me (Akvavit Theatre); The Woman in Black (Wildclaw); Buddy Cop 2 (Pavement Group) and associate lighting design on Dreaming Zenzile (NYTW, St. Louis Rep) and The Nutcracker (The House Theater). Additional credits include work with The Fisher Center at Bard, Court Theatre, The Goodman, Albany Park Theater Project, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Northlight Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Victory Gardens, and Shakespeare Academy at Stratford. MFA, Yale School of Drama. USA 829. emmadeane.com