John Musall has been working in theater, dance, and performance for over fifty years. He has designed sets, lighting, and costumes for over four hundred concert, dance, theater and performance events around the US and Europe. As a performing artist, he has written and directed some thirty performance works, and he has exhibited paintings and installation works throughout the USA. He spent thirteen years with the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and has taught lighting and set design within the Bard College system under JoAnne Akalaitis, Karen Beaumont, Aimee Michel, James Warwick, and others for the past twenty-five years. He is the recipient of four project grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and Art Matters in New York City.
Recent production credits include scenic designs and/or lighting for «Almost Maine», by John Cariani; Thornton Wilder’s «Skin Of Our Teeth»; Gogol’s «The Inspector General»; «Breakwater» by Jim Frangione; «Dad», by Mark St Germain; Brecht/Weill’s «Three Penny Opera»; Shakespeare’s «12th Night», «Henry V», «Much Ado»; «The Christopher Boy’s Communion»; by David Mamet, Ionesco’s «The Chairs»; «Riot» by The Wardrobe Ensemble; and «Lunar Eclipse»; by Donald Margulies.
Recently retired from teaching at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, he continues to light dance concerts for Berkshire Pulse, and create scenic designs for Shakespeare and Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and other area theaters.
He is especially thrilled to be a contributor to this original production of Marie Schleef’s ARE YOU READY TO DIE? at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
