Paul Gallo (born February 24, 1953) is an

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theatrical lighting designer. In a career that spans over 4 decades, Gallo has designed over 52

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productions, an achievement matched by only 8 other lighting designers. He made his Broadway debut at the age of 27 with '' Passione'', starring

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. Gallo has received eight nominations for the

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and ten nominations for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, which he won for the 1992 revival of ''

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''. He won the Henry Hewes Design Award, Collaborative Design Achievement-Lighting Design for the Public Theater production of ''Vienna: Lusthaus'' in 1986, and was nominated for Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design, for ''The Crucible'' (2002).

Biography

Gallo was born in

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near Arthur Avenue in the

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, the son of Lola (Morales) Gallo and Albert Gallo who were ballroom dancers in the 1950s. Gallo attended

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on an acting scholarship but soon discovered his aptitude for lighting. He then went on to study lighting with Tom Skelton and

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in graduate school at the

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, where he got his MFA.

Original Broadway Productions (selected)

* ''Grown Ups''''Grown Ups''
playbillvault.com (1981) * '' Beyond Therapy'' (1982) * '' Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean'' (1982) * ''

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'' (1985) * ''

The House of Blue Leaves ''The House of Blue Leaves'' is a play by American playwright John Guare which premiered Off-Broadway in 1971, and was revived in 1986, both Off-Broadway and on Broadway, and was again revived on Broadway in 2011. The play won the Drama Criti ...

'' (1986) * ''

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'' (1986) * '' City of Angels'' (1989) * '' Lend Me a Tenor'' (1989) * ''

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'' (1990) * '' I Hate Hamlet'' (1991) * '' Crazy for You'' (1992) * '' Smokey Joe's Cafe'' (1995) * ''

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'' (1997) * '' Triumph of Love'' (1997) * '' The Civil War'' (1999) * ''

Three Days of Rain ''Three Days of Rain'' is a play by Richard Greenberg that was commissioned and produced by South Coast Repertory in 1997. The title comes from a line from W. S. Merwin's poem, "For the Anniversary of My Death" (1967). The play has often been ...

'' (2006) * ''

A Bronx Tale ''A Bronx Tale'' is a 1993 American coming-of-age story, coming-of-age crime film, crime drama film directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri's A Bronx Tale (p ...

'' (2007) * ''

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'' (2007) * ''

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'' (2008) * '' Wonderland'' (2011) * '' Three Tall Women'' (2018)

Celebrated Revivals on Broadway (selected)

* ''

Anything Goes ''Anything Goes'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised considerably by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madc ...

'' (1987) * ''

'' (1992) * ''

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 BC), specif ...

'' (1996) * ''

The Sound Of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. ...

'' (1998) * ''

The Rocky Horror Show ''The Rocky Horror Show'' is a Musical theatre, musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to various B movies associated with the Science fiction film, science fiction and Horror film, horror genres from the 193 ...

'' (2000) * ''

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'' (2001) * ''

Man Of La Mancha ''Man of La Mancha'' is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay '' I, Don Quixote'', which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervan ...

'' (2002) * ''

The Crucible ''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote ...

'' (2002) * '' Pal Joey'' (2008)

Film Lighting

* ''

O.C. and Stiggs ''O.C. and Stiggs'' is a 1987 American teen comedy film directed by Robert Altman, based on two characters that were originally featured in a series of stories published in '' National Lampoon'' magazine. The film stars Daniel H. Jenkins and ...

'' (1985) * ''The Comedy Of Errors'' (1987) * ''The Man Who Came To Dinner'' (2000) * ''

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'' (2002) * " The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" - S3, Ep 8 & 9 (2019)

Tony Award nominations

for Best Lighting Design: *1986 ''

'' *1988 ''

'' *1990 '' City of Angels'' *1992 '' Crazy for You'' *1992 ''

'' *2001 ''

'' *2002 ''

'' *2006 ''

References

External links

Paul Gallo Studio
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Paul Gallo Internet Off-Broadway Database listingRaising Titanic: Paul Gallo and his design team position the ship for its Broadway Berth
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