His designs have been found in the repertoires of, among others: New York City Ballet, Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyon Opera Ballet, Stockholm Staadteater, Geneva Opera Ballet, John Kelly, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Ralph Lemon and Company, Bayerische Staadtsballet, Boston Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Stephen Petronio and Dancers, and Netherlands Dance Theatre. Recent work includes:the lighting for Twelfth Night and Richard III on Broadway. Robert Bly’s new translation of Peer Gynt at the Guthrie with Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure -Shakespeare’s Globe, La Clemenza de Tito, Abduction From The Seraglio and Rake’s Progress - Munich Staadtsoper, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Dances with Piano…, Giant Empty for John Jasperse and Jean Genet’s The Blacks - Market Theatre of Johannesburg. He is represented on Broadway as the lighting Designer for Twelfth Night and Richard IIIas well as Associate Lighting Designer for Annie Get Your Gun. Associated with Theatre Projects Consultants. Visiting professor of dance lighting at U.C.L.A., 1992-94. Mr. Member of the faculty of The Juilliard School 2000-2008. Resident Lighting Czar. Lincoln Center Festival 1996- present. Television credits include: Bravo’s Inside the Actor’s Studio, Two Moon July for PBS, Night Music for WHYY-TV Philadelphia, Airdance for Live From Off-Center and Goodnight Alice(w. Alan Adelman) for Lincoln Center. Received a 1988 Bessie Award for cumulative achievement; 1997 Cable Ace Award for Inside the Actor’s Studio; and 1988, 1991, and 1994 American Theater Wing Design Award nominations. As a consultant, Mr. Pressner has worked with Theatre Projects Consultants since 1996, on many projects and studies, including programming the Dallas Arts District,, the redevelopment plan for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and rewriting arts policy for the City of Dallas. As Pressner Studios, he has also acted as the theater consultant on many other projects.
Listed skills include Theatre, Stage, Lighting, Festivals, and 40 others.
