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= Isabella Byrd = Isabella Byrd is an American lighting designer.

Early life and education
Byrd grew up in Houston, Texas. She attended High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Houston Ballet Academy. She studied Theatre Design & Technology at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati (CCM).

As a young designer, Byrd trained as an assistant to designers Jane Cox, Tyler Micoleau, Matt Frey, and Paul Toben.

Lighting design
Stylistic preference for subtlety and restraint; has referred to herself as a "darkness designer." Known for use of very low lighting. "Darkness was a really exciting palette that I could use instead of fight against. Has described her style as relying on contrast and poetry, and an interest in the uncanny. Mining the worlds of architecture poetry, and shadow plane in relationship to the scale of a human figure. Speaks of being as much an artist of time and duration as of light and darkness. The core of her design practice is an exploration of the text and an intensive research process.

In the New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham described the way Byrd's lighting "exert[s] a strong but delicate harmonic influence" on the plays she designs.

In 2019, designed Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill at NYTW, directed by Rachel Chavkin. Received an Obie award for that design.

Designed many acclaimed off-Broadway productions including Infinite Life by Annie Baker, Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok, and the Pulitzer-finalist Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery.

Heroes: lighting inspired by the geographical isolation of its Wyoming setting, bold use of darkness asking audience to strain and adjust their eyes and listen carefully to the actors' words

2020 Sanctuary City minimalist design NYTW It begins with a whirlwind series of small scene-lets or beats. Although some of the scenes were only three sentences long, we were able to use simple light to inform the audience to quickly discern a time jump, as well as the new physical and emotional space. We only used warm to cool white light, keeping it inside that narrow color range.I like making rules, so then I can break them!

Byrd has described the core combination of artistry and technical knowledge at play in her lighting design work as "trying to teach the robots poetry."

Cabaret designed not only the musical in-the-round but also the immersive spaces at front-of-house. The musical's lighting design featured a plunge from an initially warm and colorful world to what Byrd described as a "terrifying white"

Advocates for pay equity in the live-entertainment industry.

Has cited the poetry of Anne Carson and the visual art of James Turrell and Doug Wheeler as inspirations for her work.

Awards
Obie Award for Light Shining

lortel for Heroes

Received an Olivier nomination for Cabaret on the West End.

Received a Tony nomination for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for an immersive revival of Cabaret at the August Wilson Theatre, directed by Rebecca Frecknall.

Received a Tony nomination for Best Lighting Design of a Play for a revival of An Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square, directed by Sam Gold.

Three Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obies, and a Henry Hewes design award.

Special Drama Desk Award in 2024

Other work
Worked as a creative producer for 13P archival website.

Worked as a design editor and contributor to Chance Magazine

Along with fellow lighting designer Alejandro Fajardo, Byrd is a co-creator of the instagram hashtag #thelightin, which collects images of natural lighting effects and phenomena all over the world.

Personal life
Lives in Brooklyn.

Camp Wo-Chi-Ca
Linked to by International Workers Order and Jerry Silverman

the other blacklist pg 74

Charles White met his second wife (Frances Barrett, a counselor) there while working as an art teacher

" a camp for the children of the left"

















Melba (Sally) Schauman
"the leading landscape architect with the USDA soil conservation service and at the university of washington in 1980 was appointed the first woman chair of a department of landscape architecture." scape toward an urban ecology