Todd Elmer Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co

Conventional lighting design for classical ballet at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.Productions include:• Oct 2024 – Sleeping Beauty• Mar 2024 – Coppélia• Oct 2023 – Swan Lake• Apr 2023 – Ballet Masterworks Triple Bill (Lighting Director)• Mar 2023 – Cinderella• Apr 2022 – Ballet Masterworks Triple Bill (Lighting Director)• Feb 2022 – Romeo & Juliet• Nov 2021 – Nutcracker (New production)• Oct 2021 – Giselle (postponed from Oct 2020)• Apr 2020 – Ballet Masterworks (cancelled due to Covid-19)• Oct 2019 – Don Quixote• Apr 2019 – Ballet Masterworks (Carmina Burana, Serenade)• Oct 2018 – Sleeping Beauty• Mar 2018 – Director's Choice Triple Bill (Lighting Director)• Feb 2018 – Romeo & Juliet• Feb 2017 – Ballet Masterworks Triple Bill (Lighting Director)• Oct 2016 – Swan Lake• Oct 2015 – La Sylphide• Feb 2014 – Cinderella (recreating original lighting by Christina Giannelli)• Oct 2013 – Giselle• Nov 2012 – The Nutcracker• Oct 2012 – Sleeping Beauty• Oct 2011 – Swan Lake• Feb 2011 – Romeo & Juliet• Sep 2010 – Mixed Repertory (included world premiere by Matthew Neenan)• Feb 2010 – Beauty & The Beast (recreating original lighting by Michael Ford)• Oct 2009 – Don Quixote• Oct 2008 – Swan Lake• Feb 2008 – Coppélia

Santa Fe, Nm

Lighting design and execution of all exhibits in multiple spaces beginning with the May 2000 year-long presentation of Treasures from the Thaw Collection. Responsibilities include planning, designing, installing and focusing lighting for a wide variety of historic and contemporary Native American exhibits. Major exhibitions dedicated to individual artists include Marcus Amerman, Shonto Begay, Rose B. Simpson, Melanie Yazzie, Tony Jojola, Darren Vigil Gray, Ben Harjo Jr, Charles Loloma, and Arthur Amiotte. Single topical exhibits have included pottery, jewelry, Navajo women's garments, and self-portraits. And special thematic exhibits include the Wheelwright's own history and collections, From The Railroad to Route 66: Curio trade in New Mexico, Toadlena Trading Post, Santo Domingo Pueblo, museum founder Mary Cabot Wheelwright at the 75th Anniversary, and the Durango Collection.

Lensic Performing Arts Center - Santa Fe, Nm

Long-term ongoing commitment to provide support and supervision to the production process of the Company. Hiring hand picked crew personnel for value-added teamwork and efficiency over the past decades and assisting ASFB production staff in supervising the production process in the Santa Fe venue, particularly in the lighting and electrics areas.

Lensic Performing Arts Center - Santa Fe, Nm

Ballets include:PETAL choreographed by Helen Pickett (World Premiere 2008)POINTEOFF choreographed by Jorma Elo (World Premiere 2006)LEFT UNSAID choreographed by Nicolo Fonte (World Premiere 2003)WHISPERS IN THE DARK choreographed by Edwaard Liang (World Premiere 2006)SWEET FIELDS choreographed by Twyla Tharp (ASFB Company Premiere 2005)NOIR BLANC choreographed by Moses Pendleton (World Premiere 2002)

Santa Fe, Nm

Annually recurring major production.

Lincoln Center, New York, Ny

Annual Spring "Workshop" Performances presented in the Juilliard Theatre, with repertory drawn primarily from NYCB signature works by Balanchine & Robbins with other classical ballets of Fokine & Bournonville, to contemporary works by Peter Martins, Wheeldon, Millipied, Woetzel, and others.Majority of lighting is recreated in the NYCB Company look and style, with over six dozen ballets presented since 1982, approx 30 recurring over time, and more than half a dozen world premieres, including Jerome Robbins' 1994 "2&3 Part Inventions" which joined the NYCB repertory later that year.In June 1989 the School performed 7 ballets during the Holland Festival in Amsterdam's Muziektheater in an historic concurrent engagement with the Russian Vaganova Academy, school of The Kirov Ballet.

Louisville, Kentucky

World Premiere of Val Caniparoli's SPAGHETTI WESTERNOpened April 4th, 2014Kentucky Center for the Arts - Whitney Hall

Santa Fe, Nm

Annually recurring major production.

Various Cities

• Moving People Dance (Santa Fe) 2001-2010• Theaterwork (Santa Fe) 2000-2005• Santa Fe Jazz Festival (Bruce Dunlap) 2000-2005• Alpine Dance (Telluride, CO) Jan 1998 - Jan 2002• The Richmond Ballet (Richmond, VA) 1993-1995• Wes Chapman's American Ballet (NYC) 1991-1993

New York City Based (Domestic & International Touring)

From April 1988 through September 1994 the responsibilities included maintaining an extensive system of paperwork to record the work of multiple designers, both living and deceased; focus, set levels for, and maintain the artistic integrity of designs for seventy-five ballets including a dozen full-lengths, spanning a fifty year history in over 850 performances during a period of six+ years. During that time he designed the lighting for four repertory ballets. Spanning the artistic directorships of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jane Hermann, and Kevin McKenzie, the company toured domestically to the major opera houses and performing arts centers including Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New York's Metropolitan Opera House, as well as Los Angeles, Costa Mesa and San Diego, CA., Houston, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Miami Beach. International engagements included Athens, Copenhagen, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Nagoya, Osaka, the Paris Opéra Palais Garnier, Palermo, Tokyo, and Yokohama.

New York City Based (Domestic & International Touring)

From the debut tour in September 1990 through the Summer tour of '93 the responsibilities included creating and maintaining the paperwork to represent the work of several different designers from many different choreographers works, as well as focusing, setting levels for, and maintaining the integrity of the designs for two dozen dances during the course of five U.S. national tours and an extensive tour in Japan. Initially a vehicle for the work of Mark Morris (with lighting design by long time colleague and mentor James F. Ingalls), artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov soon widened the scope of the project to include programs drawing from the work of Martha Graham, Lar Lubovitch, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Martha Clarke, Jane Dudley, David Gordon, Hanya Holm, and Meredith Monk.

Los Angeles Based (U.S. National Tours)

For the 1986, '87, & '88 U.S. National Tours, responsibilities included creating technical schedules, logistics, crew calls, trucking, supervising the load-ins & outs and calling the show for a proscenium-format ice skating/dancing production. The Company variously starred Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, and Robin Cousins, with Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner, and an ensemble of fifteen skaters in different versions over the years. Initially begun as an annual specialty production at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, the company began a national tour format in 1986 typical of Broadway shows, and played more than 40 engagements during three seasons, installing a full-stage portable ice deck system in addition to its standard theatrical scenery & lighting within the normal production schedules for split and full week engagements.

New York City Based (U.S. National Touring)

The 1984-85 season was a 45-city tour in two segments. A sixteen-member training ground for Ballet Theatre; its first stop, Greece, was followed by a Bus & Truck U.S. tour of one and two-night stands in eighteen continental States and Hawaii. Responsibilities included creating and advancing the paperwork to represent the work of different designers from several choreographers work, driving the truck, acting as road electrician supervising the set-up as well as focusing, setting levels for, and maintaining the integrity of the designs for a dozen ballets in an ever-changing variety of venues ranging from the smallest high school to university theatre settings to large union venues across the country.

New York City & Regional

Projects include:• Off-Broadway - 12 productions April 1978 - Feb 1983• Juilliard School Drama Center - 12 productions 1980-1984• The Hangar Theatre (Ithaca, NY) - All 20 productions 1984-1987

Santa Fe, Nm

Complete five-production seasons in 1979 and 1980, working under the legendary leadership of the late lighting designer Craig Miller.

New Haven, Ct

Full seven-production season.