Theater and Performance Events

Spelman Theatre Presents Kathy Perkins: A Life in the Theater

Lighting designer Kathy A. Perkins will visit Spelman College Rockefeller Arts Building, Baldwin Burroughs Theatre on Thursday, Apr. 17, at 4 p.m. to discuss her career and experience in theater. The program is free and open to the public.

Over the course of a remarkable 45-year career, Perkins has worked in theaters all over the United States and as far away as South Africa and Cuba. Perkins has designed lighting for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatres such as American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, St. Louis Black Repertory, Alliance, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Baltimore Center Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, New Federal Theatre, Mark Taper, Yale Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Two Rivers Theatre, People’s Light, and Playmakers Repertory. Internationally, she has designed in South Africa, Switzerland, Cuba, Canada and Brazil.

As a scholar, she is the editor of seven anthologies focusing on women nationally and internationally. She is a senior editor of the Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance.

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