Biography
Geoff Korf is the Executive Director of the School of Drama and a Floyd U. Jones Family Endowed Professor of Lighting Design. Professor Korf, who teaches lighting design, joined the UW Drama faculty in 2002, and served as Head of Design from 2004 until 2017. Professor Korf holds the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Professorship in the Arts.
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 thirty years and has designed for many prominent theatres throughout the U.S.A. including on 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 a number of museums including the Huntington Library’s main exhibit of rare books.
Research & Creative Work
Representative Creative Work
- Design (2015). Mr. Burns by Anne Washburn. ACT: Seattle, WA.
- 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.
- Geoff Korf, lighting designer. Water by the Spoonful. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Thomas Theatre, 2014.
Courses Taught
Winter 2024
Spring 2020
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2017
Winter 2017
Autumn 2014
Autumn 2013
Autumn 2012
Affiliations
News & Press
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