{"id":12628,"date":"2019-09-25T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=12628"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:10:00","slug":"lighting-design-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/lighting-design-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Professor Receives Lighting Design Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12632\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12632\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-1-600x361.jpg\" alt=\"Lighting Design Award\" width=\"584\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-1-600x361.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-1-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-1-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theatre Arts Professor Lanny Potts was selected from a field of six nominees as the winner of a 2019 Wilde Award in the Best Lighting Design Category for his work in a 2018 Farmers Alley Theatre production of <em>Bridges of Madison County<\/em> in Kalamazoo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encoremichigan.com\/\">EncoreMichigan.com<\/a>, a web-based publication focusing on Michigan\u2019s professional theater industry, highlights the top productions, actors, artists, designers, writers and technicians in the state through its annual Wilde Awards.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the spotlight shone on Kalamazoo College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/theatre\/\">Theatre Arts<\/a> Professor Lanny Potts, who was selected from a field of six nominees as the winner of a 2019 Wilde Award in the Best Lighting Design Category.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12635\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12635\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Lighting Design Award\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/09\/Lighting-Design-Award.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theatre Arts Professor Lanny Potts was selected from a field of six nominees as the winner of a 2019 Wilde Award in the Best Lighting Design Category.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The honor is a result of Potts\u2019 work in a 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmersalleytheatre.com\/\">Farmers Alley Theatre<\/a> production of <em>Bridges of Madison County<\/em> in Kalamazoo. The musical, a 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Score and Orchestrations, tells a story of a love affair between a lonely housewife and a rugged photographer, examining the roads people travel, the doors they open and the bridges they cross.<\/p>\n<p>Potts has won the same award twice previously through Farmers Alley Theatre, once in 2013 for his lighting design work in <em>The Light in the Piazza<\/em>, and again in 2018 for <em>Gypsy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible in their categories, Wilde Award nominees need at least four performances conducted through a professional theater company with paid actors between June 1, 2018, and May 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Potts is a professional designer and consultant whose work has included international lighting and production design; national tour designs for opera and dance; and regional designs for opera, modern dance, ballet, drama and corporate events.<\/p>\n<p>Potts has presented portfolios of his work at regional conferences, worked at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and received many professional awards including a Michigan Governor\u2019s Commendation, a design commendation from the John F. Kennedy Center (<em>Fun Home<\/em>) and Atlanta Critic\u2019s Choice awards for his design work for the Atlanta premier of <em>A Few Good Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EncoreMichigan.com, a web-based publication focusing on Michigan\u2019s professional theater industry, highlights the top productions, actors, artists, designers, writers and technicians in the state through its annual Wilde Awards. 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The musical, a 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Score and Orchestrations, tells a story of a love affair between a lonely housewife and a rugged photographer, examining the roads people travel, the doors they open and the bridges they cross.<\/p>\n<p>Potts has won the same award twice previously through Farmers Alley Theatre, once in 2013 for his lighting design work in <em>The Light in the Piazza<\/em>, and again in 2018 for <em>Gypsy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible in their categories, Wilde Award nominees need at least four performances conducted through a professional theater company with paid actors between June 1, 2018, and May 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Potts is a professional designer and consultant whose work has included international lighting and production design; national tour designs for opera and dance; and regional designs for opera, modern dance, ballet, drama and corporate events.<\/p>\n<p>Potts has presented portfolios of his work at regional conferences, worked at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and received many professional awards including a Michigan Governor\u2019s Commendation, a design commendation from the John F. Kennedy Center (<em>Fun Home<\/em>) and Atlanta Critic\u2019s Choice awards for his design work for the Atlanta premier of <em>A Few Good Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12628"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24074,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions\/24074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12628"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=12628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}