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Josh Epstein is a lighting designer for theater, opera and dance, as well as environmental and event spaces.
His regional theater work includes Master Class directed by Wendy C. Goldberg at Paper Mill Playhouse; Bad Dates directed by Eric Ting at Long Wharf Theater; Durango at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Doubt at Actor's Theater of Louisville and Cincinnati Playhouse; the world premiere of False Creeds at the Alliance Theater; The Santaland Diaries directed by Kim Rubinstein at Long Wharf Theater.
Opera work includes the American premiere of Orpheus by Telemann directed by Larry Edelson at the Wolf Trap Opera Company; productions at the Berkshire Opera festival and the Manhattan School of Music.
Off-Broadway lighting design credits include the critically-acclaimed Dead City, written by Sheila Callaghan and directed by Daniella Topol with New Georges Theater Company; Deathbed by Mark Schultz at the McGinn/Cazale Theater; Tall Grass directed by Nick Corley at the Beckett Theater; productions with Clubbed Thumb, Target Margin, Rattlestick Theater, La Mama ETC, Naked Angels, Theater for the New City, Summer Play Festival, Urban Stages and The Juilliard School of Drama. Josh has worked with directors Wendy C. Goldberg, Pam MacKinnon, Eric Ting, Steffan Novinski, Susan Fenichell, Maria Mileaf, Jesse Berger, Brian Mertes, Curt Columbus, Melissa Kievman, Brian Roff and David Herskovits, among others. He has also served multiple times as the Resident Lighting Designer for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference.
His dance work includes pieces with Doug Varone, David Dorfman, Allyson Green, Wil Swanson, Edisa Weeks and Kara Tatelbaum. Josh has designed at Wolf Trap, The Joyce Theater, Danspace at St. Marks, The 92nd St. Y’s Harkness Dance Project, Symphony Space and The Joyce Soho. His work has been seen internationally in Lisbon, Portugal and Bucharest, Romania.
Josh designed the lighting for the award-winning Macy’s 2006 and 2007 New York City Holiday Windows. He lit VIP party spaces for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall and the 2006 VH-1 Hip Hop Honors at the Hammerstein Ballroom. He has also designed lighting for a multitude of different events and fashion shows throughout the New York area.
Upcoming work includes The Crowd You're In With at the Goodman Theatre.
Josh received his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College and was a recipient of the 2004-2006 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.