Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer who has worked at numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres around the country. She has served as the lighting designer for more than 70 Off-Broadway shows at venues such as the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Jerome Robbins Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, and the Delacorte Theater. Her Off-Broadway credits include: THE GRAB BAG (1968), HORSEMAN, PASS BY (1969), THE TEMPEST (1974), MACBETH (1974), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1975), RUNAWAYS (1978), DRINKS BEFORE DINNER (1978), BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR (1980), THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (1980), HURLYBURLY (1984), ENDGAME (1984), PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE (1986), WAITING FOR GODOT (1988) THE HAIRY APE (1997), JAMES JOYCE’S THE DEAD (1999), THE SEAGULL (2001), 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISHMOTHER (2006), THE GLASS MENAGERIE (2010), VIEUX CARRE (2011), THE GABRIELS: ELECTION YEAR IN THE LIFE OF ONE FAMILY (2016), EVENING AT THE TALK HOUSE (2017), ILLYRIA (2017). In 1989, Tipton received two Henry Hewes Design Awards and a Drama Desk Award for her work Off-Broadway. 

Jennifer Tipton began her career as a dancer. After graduating from Cornell University in 1958, she began to work as a lighting designer at venues that she had previously performed in. In her early career, Tipton worked for lighting designer Thomas Skelton and eventually took over many of his projects. Her Broadway credits include:  For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (1977), The Cherry Orchard (1977), Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (1989) and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (2017). 

Jennifer Tipton has also served as a Professor of Design at the Yale School of Drama since 1981. She has received six Tony Award nominations, winning two for her work on Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (1989) and The Cherry Orchard (1977). She has also been nominated for nine Drama Desk Awards, receiving five for the lighting design of Long Day’s Journey into Night (1989), Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (1989), Waiting for Godot (1989), The Cherry Orchard (1977), and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (1977). Tipton was also awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001 for her contribution to the arts and is also a member of the MacArthur Fellows Program.