Donny Jackson

Donny Jackson is an award-winning freelance Lighting Designer and Theatre Professor based in Los Angeles.



Work highlights include the New York premiere of Four Clowns (La Mama Experimental Theatre), the premiere of A Singular They, for which he received a Stage Raw Award nomination (Blank Theatre), the Work Shop production of When God Looked Away, starring Al Pacino and Judith Light (Macha Theatre), the West Coast premiere of In the Heights (Casa 0101 Theatre), Phenomenal, written and directed by Grammy winner, Macy Gray (Ramon Cortines Performing Arts), the KJAZZ Annual Benefit Concert (Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts) , Arrival & Departure (Fountain Theatre) for which he was awarded Best Lighting by BroadwayWorld LA and Transition, for which he received the NAACP award for Best Lighting. His work was also featured on television for Into the Woods, airing during ABC's reality TV event, "Encore!".

Other design work includes, Driving Miss Daisy starring Donna Mills (Colony Theatre), Father, Son & Holy Coach, executive produced by Tyler Posey, of MTV's "Teen Wolf" (Odyssey Theatre), and Old Man in a Big Car, directed by "The Simpsons" voice actor, Dan Castellaneta (Fanatic Salon).

He is currently an Ovation Awards Judge for the Los Angeles Stage Alliance, and head of Technical Theatre & Design at Cypress College. He holds an MFA in Lighting Design from the UCLA School of Theatre, where he trained under Tony-winning lighting designer, Neil Jampolis.