Aaron Copp

Aaron Copp is a NY based lighting designer. His recent projects include The New One by Mike Birbiglia at The Cort Theater on Broadway, Red State Blue State for Colin Quinn at the Minetta Lane, Candide at Tanglewood Music Center, One Line Drawn by Brian Brooks for Miami City Ballet, Newsies at Village Theater, and Shahrazad for The Royal Ballet of Flanders.  Music projects include designs for The Silk Road Ensemble, Natalie Merchant, The Goat Rodeo Sessions, SO Percussion, Maya Beiser and the Bang On A Can All-Stars.  Aaron has designed for The Old Globe, The Kennedy Center, Dallas Theater Center, and other major theaters around the country.  He has worked extensively in the dance world, and in 2008 received his second Bessie Award for Jonah Bokaer’s The Invention Of Minus One.  He had a long association with Merce Cunningham, designing such pieces as Ground Level Overlay, Windows, and Biped, for which he also won a Bessie.

Aaron Copp was part of the premiere production of the following ballet(s):

Ballets Year Dancers Composer
A Yankee Doodle 2015 13 Traditional
Dotty Polkas 2008 23 Johann Strauss II
Is 2013 1 Claude Debussy
Isis In Transit 2008 1 Steve Reich
KYDZNY 2014 41 Various
of Inwit 2010 1 Philip Glass
Pointing 1 2017 4 Julia Wolfe
Pointing 2 2018 7 Paul Lansky
Pointing 3 2018 4 Brian Eno
Quickstep 2008 15 Steve Martland
Undergo 2008 4 Meredith Monk
Upside D∀NƆE 2013 37 Traditional
Zeppo, Act 1 2010 1 Various
Zeppo, Act 2 2010 1 Various