My Bio
Ben Kato (Lighting/Set Designer)
2009 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design for Washing Machine (Stanford Meisner). As Resident Lighting Designer for NTUSA: Chautauqua! (P.S. 122/Walker Arts Center) Abacus Black Strikes Now (P.S. 122/OBIE Award 2006) Placebo Sunrise, Garvey & Superpants (Chashama), and Don Juan (Chocolate Factory). As Resident Designer for Push Productions: Marat/Sade (Access Theater), and Len Jenkin’s Kraken (Walkerspace), Colin Mckenna’s The Secret Agenda of Trees (Wild Project). Other NYC Productions include: Thomas Bradshaw’s Purity and Prophet (P.S. 122), Rob Roth’s Screen Test,(P.S. 122/Abrons Art Center/Live Design Magazine Excellence Award 2009). Sheila Callaghan’s Crawl, Fade To White (13P). Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River, directed by Yoshi Oida (Japan Society/Opera Rouen). 7 Seconds (NYU/HERE), directed by Yehuda Duenyas. Fashion / Industrial design credits: Associate Designer for CFDA Fashion Awards ’00 & ’01 (Lincoln Center/Avery Fisher Hall), Gucci & YSL in Milan and Paris. Music: John Kelly’s Paved Paradise Redux & Justin Bond’s Lustre (Abrons Arts Center), Bang On A Can Cellist, Maya Beiser’s World To Come Tour. With the shows Premiere at Zankell Hall, it has gone on to tour the U.S., Europe and Australia. Kato is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Regionally his designs have been seen at Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Williamstown, SITI and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. For more info check out www.benkato.com. Enjoy.
2009 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design for Washing Machine (Stanford Meisner). As Resident Lighting Designer for NTUSA: Chautauqua! (P.S. 122/Walker Arts Center) Abacus Black Strikes Now (P.S. 122/OBIE Award 2006) Placebo Sunrise, Garvey & Superpants (Chashama), and Don Juan (Chocolate Factory). As Resident Designer for Push Productions: Marat/Sade (Access Theater), and Len Jenkin’s Kraken (Walkerspace), Colin Mckenna’s The Secret Agenda of Trees (Wild Project). Other NYC Productions include: Thomas Bradshaw’s Purity and Prophet (P.S. 122), Rob Roth’s Screen Test,(P.S. 122/Abrons Art Center/Live Design Magazine Excellence Award 2009). Sheila Callaghan’s Crawl, Fade To White (13P). Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River, directed by Yoshi Oida (Japan Society/Opera Rouen). 7 Seconds (NYU/HERE), directed by Yehuda Duenyas. Fashion / Industrial design credits: Associate Designer for CFDA Fashion Awards ’00 & ’01 (Lincoln Center/Avery Fisher Hall), Gucci & YSL in Milan and Paris. Music: John Kelly’s Paved Paradise Redux & Justin Bond’s Lustre (Abrons Arts Center), Bang On A Can Cellist, Maya Beiser’s World To Come Tour. With the shows Premiere at Zankell Hall, it has gone on to tour the U.S., Europe and Australia. Kato is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Regionally his designs have been seen at Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Williamstown, SITI and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. For more info check out www.benkato.com. Enjoy.
