Artist Profiles
J.R. Lederle
J.R. Lederle designed This is Modern Art (based on true events), George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Leveling Up, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, The Book Thief, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Samuel J and K, To Kill A Mockingbird, The House on Mango Street, The Bluest Eye (also at New Victory in New York), Harriet Jacobs, The Water Engine (also at Theater on the Lake), A Tale of Two Cities, Winesburg, Ohio, Division Street and Whispering City for Steppenwolf for Young Adults. His work has also been seen at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater, About Face Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Writers Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Walkabout Theater Company, Itinerant Theatre Guild, Indiana Repertory Theatre and elsewhere at Steppenwolf, including Sex with Strangers. J.R. designed lighting for seven years for the Steppenwolf Traffic series and for five Steppenwolf performances in Chicago’s Millennium Park. He has served as head Lighting Supervisor at Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 1995.
Past Productions
- 100 Saints You Should Know
- 365 Days/365 Plays - Week 52
- A Blameless Life
- A Tale Of Two Cities
- Charm
- Division Street: America
- Gary
- George Orwell's Animal Farm
- Harriet Jacobs
- Honest
- How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence
- Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train
- Lady Madeline
- Leveling Up
- Love-Lies-Bleeding
- Man in Love
- Men of Tortuga
- Monster
- Oblivion
- Orson's Shadow
- Pacific
- Richard III
- Samuel J. and K.
- Sex with Strangers
- Sex with Strangers
- Ski Dubai
- Sonia Flew
- Spare Change
- Tavern Story
- The 5th Annual First Look Repertory of New Work
- The Bluest Eye
- The Bluest Eye
- The Burials
- The Compass
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- The House Of Lily
- The House on Mango Street
- The Sparrow Project
- The Unmentionables
- The Water Engine
- This Is Modern Art (based on true events)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tranquillity Woods
- Want
- We All Went Down To Amsterdam
- When the Messenger Is Hot
- Whispering City - Chicago Ghost Stories
- William Golding's Lord of the Flies