Biography...

 Most recently Jeff designed the world premiere of Tesla for SOBE Arts as well as La Rondine for Opera Santa Barbara, Seven Deadly Sins/Pagliacci at Virginia Opera and Orpheus and Euridice for The Vermont Opera Project. Jeff has designed Dido and Aeneus, The Long Walk,  L’Elisir d’Amore, and HMS Pinafore for Opera Saratoga as well as  Le nozze di Figaro and Madama Butterfly for the Tulsa Opera, Merry Widow and Tosca for the Kentucky Opera; Lucrezia Borgia at the San Francisco Opera; Tosca, Hansel and Gretel, Lucrezia Borgia, and Sophie's Choice for the Washington National Opera. design. Theater credits include Into the Woods  for Northern Stage and The Hour of Feeling and Bulrusher for Williams College,  This Blessed Plot  and Mary’s Wedding  for the Weston Playhouse, and Knuffle Bunny; a Cautionary Musical for the Theatre for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center.  His ballet credits include The Great Gatsby, Wunderland (winner of the MetroDC Dance award for lighting design), Le Corsaire, and PASTforward for The Washington Ballet; Le Corsaire for Ballet Nacional Sodre in Uruguay.  He has enjoyed an long standing collaboration with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet having designed Danses Concertates, the Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Sontatine, and Baiser de la Fée among others.

As an associate designer he has designed A View from the Bridge (original design by Duane Schuler) for Opera de Roma and Portland Opera, Porgy and Bess (original design by Mark McCullough) for Los Angeles Opera, and Eugene Onegin (original design by Duane Schuler) for the Seattle Opera.