Joe Doran
Birth Place: Colonial Heights, VA
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BIO
Broadway (Associate LD): “Summer, the Donna Summer Musical,” “Prince of Broadway,” “Doctor Zhivago the Musical,” “Magic/Bird”; National Tours (Asst. LD): “Hamilton,” “Joseph... Dreamcoat,” “Anything Goes,” “West Side Story,” “Flashdance the Musical,” “In the Heights”; Off-Broadway: “H4” and “Shakespeare’s Slave.” NYC Dance Companies: Sean Curran Company, Armitage Gone! Dance, Stephen Petronio Company, Shen Wei Dance Arts, and Martha Graham Dance Company, among others. He recently designed an adaptation of “The Tempest” directed by and starring Olympia Dukakis. Regional design credits include: The Rivals, the Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar” at Bristol Riverside Theatre; “In the Heights,” “A Christmas Story, The Musical,” “Dreamgirls,” “The Color Purple” at VA Rep. Additional credits: The Fulton Theatre, Alpine Theatre Project, The Atlanta Ballet, and Swift Creek Mill Theatre. 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016, and 2017 recipient of the Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Award. Graduate of NC School of the Arts and member of USA Local 829. www.joedorandesign.com
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