James F. Ingalls designs lighting for opera, dance and theatre productions, and also for concerts. His recent work includes lighting designs for Peter Sellars’s productions of the world premiere of Layale Chaker’s Ruinous Gods at the Spoleto Festival USA, Beatrice di Tenda at the Paris Opéra and Médée at the Berlin State Opera.
He has created lighting designs for numerous ballets, including John Cranko’s Onegin at the American Ballet Theatre in New York City, Alexei Ratmansky’s The Fairy’s Kiss and David Dawson’s Anima Animus for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, Stanton Welch’s Bespoke for the Houston Ballet and ballets choreographed by Twyla Tharp at the Joyce Theatre in New York. For the Mark Morris Dance Group he has designed lighting for the ballets Layla and Majnun, The Hard Nut, Mozart Dances and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.
His work with the Paul Taylor Dance Company includes Larry Keigwin’s Drum Circle and Lauren Lovette’s Echo. He also works regularly with the dance company in Santa Ana (California). His recent theatre projects have included Endgame and Druid O’Casey directed by Garry Hynes for the Druid Theatre and A Year with Frog and Toad for the Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis.
At the Salzburg Festival, James F. Ingalls has designed lighting for Peter Sellars’s productions of Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise, Oedipus Rex / Symphony of Psalms, Die Perser, Le Grand Macabre, Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin, La clemenza di Tito and Idomeneo.
