The Ensemble Studio Theatre

Geoffrey Dunbar

Geoffrey Dunbar is a Jessie Award winning Lighting Designer who holds an MFA from New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), and a BA (Economics) from the University of British Columbia.

Recent EST credits:
Marathon 2011, Series A: Bike Wreck (Qui Nguyen), In the Middle of the Night (Billy Aronson), School Night (J Holtham), Ten High (Ben Rosenthal), and Tennessee (Romulus Linney). For YoungBlood: Silver to a Trading Agent (Sharyn Rothstein; Giovanna Scardella Dir.); MicroCrisis (Michael Lew; Ralph Peña, Dir.); Graceful Living (Maria Gabrielle; Holli Harms, Dir.).

He has been a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York) since 1973, and has designed the lighting for more than 40 original plays including the very first Marathon of One Act Plays in 1978.

Since 1971, he has worked as both a designer and a production electrician in dance, opera, theatre and special events in the United States, Canada and Japan.

Some companies with which he has worked are American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Beijing Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, The Vancouver Opera Association, three television networks—CBS , CBC and ABC—BRC Imagination Arts (Bob Rogers), Architectura and Weisman Dewer Grout Architects (for O’Hare International Airport, Chicago).

He has been a member of the Associated Designers of Canada (ADC) since 1987, and a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) since 1974.

He has also been an active participant in the EST Summer Conference, and has guest lectured and designed at The Banff School of Fine Arts (Banff, Alberta), the University of British Columbia and Douglas College (Vancouver).