
Producing Associate Director
Professor, Lighting Design
Fields of Interest
Biography
Geoff Korf is the Producing Associate Director of the School of Drama and a Professor of Lighting Design. Professor Korf joined the UW Drama faculty in 2002 and served as Head of Design from 2004 until 2017. Professor Korf served as the Executive Director of the school from July 2020 thru June of 2025.
Geoff received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and has taught at California Institute of the Arts, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the University of Michigan. Professor Korf has been designing lighting for more than forty years and has designed for many prominent theatres throughout the U.S.A. including on Broadway, off Broadway, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, The Guthrie Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, San Francisco Opera, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Mark Taper Forum. Geoff has been a member of the Ensemble of Cornerstone Theater in Los Angeles since 1996. Geoff has also designed lighting for several museums including the Huntington Library’s main exhibit of rare books in San Marino, California.
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Selected Research
- Design (2015). Mr. Burns by Anne Washburn. ACT: Seattle, WA.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. Water by the Spoonful. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Thomas Theatre, 2014.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library," Permanent exhibit, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2013.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. The Shaggs, Philosophy of the World. Playwrights Horizons, New York, NY, 2011.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. The Night Watcher. Seattle Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Primary Stages, 2008-2011.
- Hamlet at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle, WA.
- Glengarry Glen Ross. (2010). d. Wilson Milam. Seattle Repertory Theatre: Seattle, WA.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. The Seafarer. Seattle Repertory Theatre, 2009.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. High School Musical. Minneapolis Children's Theatre, 2007.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. Los Illegals. Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2007.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. Electricidad. Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum. 2005.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. Long Bridge over Deep Waters . Faith Based Bridge. Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2005.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. The Clean House. Yale Repertory Theatre, 2004.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. La Perichole. Long Beach Opera, 2003.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman he Loved in the Former Soviet Union. La Jolla Playhouse, 2000.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. Two Trains Running. Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway, 1992.
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Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Spring 2022
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Professional AffiliationsUnited Scenic Artists Local 829; Member of the Ensemble of Cornerstone Theater Company