Brant Thomas Murray is a lighting designer, production
manager, educator, and consultant who currently lives with his
wife in New York City and also operates out of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He is the Resident Lighting Designer for Peridance
Contemporary Dance Company and Bodiography Contemporary
Ballet, located in Pittsburgh. He is an Associate Artist with Ping
Chong + Company. From 2004 to January 2013, Brant held
senior management positions and designed multiple productions
at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He was the Production
Manager for one of the newest venues, the David Rubenstein
Atrium, and the Technical Supervisor / Resident Designer for
Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education (now known as
Lincoln Center Education). He has over twenty years of
professional experience and, since arriving in New York City in
2003, has designed or collaborated on over 700 productions for
theatre, dance, concerts, musicals, operas, events, fashion, and
architecture. In addition to teaching for the Certificate Program,
teaching assignments have included classes and workshops at
The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in
Education, and Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Program. At Walden
University, he is actively working towards a PhD in Education with
an emphasis in Aesthetic Education. Brant received a Master of
Fine Arts in Lighting Design and the William Nelson Memorial
Award in 2003 from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. From
1993-2000 in Virginia he worked for Wiley & Wilson Architects-
Engineers-Planners, Fauber Architects, and was a volunteer at
the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center. Brant received a Bachelor of
Science in Architecture and a Minor in Drama (with a
concentration in Lighting Design) in 1993 from the University of
Virginia School of Architecture and Department of Drama,
respectively. In 1989, he received his Eagle Scout award from the
Boy Scouts of America.
