John Hoey (Lighting Design) has designed at nearly every theater in Philadelphia, including the Arden, the Wilma, People's Light and the Walnut Street Theatres, and designed Popcicles Departure '89 and Moby Dick Rehearsed for Brat Products. He designed over 20 operas for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and just opened his 75th ballet for the Pennsylvania Ballet. He was on the design staff of New York City Opera, and was Lighting Director at New York City Ballet for 3 seasons. Nationally, he has designed for Luciano Pavarotti, Spoleto Festival, Pittsburgh Opera, Virginia Opera, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Folger Shakespeare, Cleveland Playhouse and the Kennedy Center. Internationally has designed and toured to all but one continent. In film he was the Assistant Art Director for the Columbia Picture's movie, "Center Stage”. John is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and Temple University. He also studied privately with Josef Svoboda in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1988. In 2005 he was the recipient of an Independence Fellowship grant to return to Prague and work with Laterna Magika and the National Theatre. Recently, John received a Barrymore Award for the lighting design for Sweeney Todd at the Arden Theatre, a Barrymore for 9 Parts of Desire at the Wilma Theater, A Helen Hayes nomination for Measure for Measure at the Folger Theater, and a Millennium Award for Capuleti et Montegue at the Opera Company of Philadelphia. In 2006, John was named to the faculty at Temple University‘s theater department.