BIOGRAPHY
Michael has designed over 400 professional productions across the globe.
He has extensive experience in Theater, Dance, Opera, Concerts, Events, Television and Film.
Aside form New York, Michael's work has been seen in L.A., Las Vegas, and Orlando, as well as numerous other cities.
Michael is the resident Lighting Designer for The American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC. He has also been the
Lighting Supervisor for Tere O'Connor Dance since 1997.
Michael's work has been called:
"Michael O'Connor's elegiac lighting design..."
Claudia La Rocco of The New York Times
"...which allows Michael O'Connor's imaginative light design
to cast colorful shadows alternately on the floor and on the
vaulted roof of the church."
Gus Solomons Jr., Solomons Says
"...remarkably evocative."
Roslyn Sulcas of The New York Times
"A nod to Michael O'Connor's lighting that provokes stark drama
for the shocking and theatrical ending."
Elizabeth Ahlfors, Curtain Up
"Wrought Iron Fog is set in a world that initially, under Michael O’Connor’s lights,
looks like a glittering, blue, polar landscape (or a fantasy of one)."
Deborah Jowitt of the Villiage Voice
"....positively glowing with movement under Michael O’Connor’s golden light."
Apollinaire Scherr of the Financial Times
"...dynamic."
Robert Kent of Theater Mania
"...stunning visual moments."
Les Gutman of Curtain Up
"Michael O'Connor shapes the space with lighting
that transforms it from mysteriously intimate to monumentally vast
with the seemingly simplest of means."
Gus Solomons Jr. of Gay City News
"...keenly lit and dramatically designed"
Jonathan Fox of the River Reporter
"Michael O'Connor is marvelous."
Lori James of the River Reporter
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