Allowing Time for Lighting Designers to Respond with Set and Lighting Designer Jiyoun Chang

Tony Award-nominated lighting designer Jiyoun Chang (Stereophonic, Slave Play, For Colored Girls) joins Scene Shift: The Podcast for a conversation about light, time, and the creative process. Known for transforming stages into emotionally charged visual landscapes, Jiji discusses how she uses light as a temporal instrument, controlling pace, pulse, and the passage of time in productions. From the incandescent glow of a recording studio in Stereophonic to portrait lighting in The Importance of Being Earnest, this episode is a deep dive into the dramaturgical thinking behind one of theatre's most celebrated lighting designers. We also talk about opera, working in Europe, collaborating across language barriers, the parallels between parenthood and tech week, and why Jiji rarely describes her lighting designs in advance, and why that works.

Music by Claire McKeown "Sarabande in D minor"

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