Скачать или смотреть Yi Zhao receives the 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre

Yi Zhao is awarded the 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre at the Vilcek Prizes gala on April 5, 2016 in New York.

Yi has earned a national reputation for his innovative lighting designs. He draws upon his training in photography and the arts to create subtle and thoughtful designs that serve a wide variety of theatre productions and aesthetics. His national credits include a staging of Plato’s "Republic" by Brooklyn company Hoi Polloi; the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s "War" at Yale Repertory Theatre; "Hamlet" at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre (directed by Vilcek Prizewinner Blanka Zizka); and "Futurity," presented by Ars Nova and Soho Rep (directed by fellow Creative Promise Prizewinner Sarah Benson). Yi was born in China.

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For more information about Yi Zhao and the Vilcek Prizes, please visit http://www.vilcek.org.