Aaron Black’s collection of work runs the gamut of disciplines from lighting design for dance, theatre and opera to production design and art direction for film and television to thematic large-scale design for leading family amusement parks.
University of Rochester: Hamlet, Pterodactyls, Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Puzzle Locker, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Winter's Tale.
Lighting Design: New York: Three Sisters, Supreme Tartuffe, Black Nativty, King Lear, Waiting For Godot, Funnyhouse Of A Negro, Trojan Women, Mother Courage And Her Children, Dream On Monkey Mountain, Hecuba, the World Premiere of Almost Blue, No Common Thread, Open Field, Pink, Crooked, Soar Like An Eagle, Alarm Will Sound at Carnegie Hall.
Regional: American Repertory Theater, Two River Theater Company, Repertory Theater of St, Louis.
Opera: Portland Opera, Royal Opera House, New York City Opera, Bard Summerscape, Glimmerglass Opera, Montreal Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Minnesota Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Opera Bilbao, Virginia Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Omaha, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston.
Production designer/Art director: MTV Video Music Awards, From The Top on PBS, The New York City 9/11 Commemorations for the Mayor’s Office of New York City, 9-11 Memorial Opening, VH-1 Storytellers, WNBC, Today Show, MSNBC, Fuse, MTV, VH1, NBC, CMT.
Upcoming: Virginia Opera, Portland Opera, New York City Opera, CMT- Artist of the Year, NBC Today Show.
Awards: 5 Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre, Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design, IRNE Award Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design, Lucille Lortell Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, Art Director's Guild Award Nomination for Outstanding Production Design, Daytime Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Production Design and Art Direction.
Teaching: Guest Lecturer, NYU, Fordham University, Adjunct Professor NYU Tisch School of Design for Film and Stage.
Education: Certificate from the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts in California, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Conservatory for Performing Arts at Webster University in Saint Louis and a Master of Fine Arts from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Member: United Scenic Artists Local 829, Art Director's Guild.