Tony Stoeri is a Minneapolis-based lighting designer, with experience in theater, opera, dance, and event lighting. His work has been seen around the Twin Cities and across the United States since he began designing professionally at the age of sixteen. His passion for the art of lighting is rooted in a love of storytelling and shared creation.
Tony holds a B.A. in history from Carleton College, where he studied the construction of national identity in Napoleonic French soldiers, and an M.F.A. in lighting design from Indiana University.
Reviews:
"Stoeri’s lighting choices in particular stand out for their boldness, without going over the top. One chilling scene is illuminated by only one light, relatively close to the ground, revealing only silhouettes to the audience."
"...lighting design by Tony Stoeri...speaks to the show’s cultural milieu of engineering, computing and pixelization...[creating] superimposed grids of pixels, which manage to fall somewhere between romantic, musical overture landscapes and basic graphics. Basic and very, very effective."
"[The]lighting design by Tony Stoeri added wonderful depth and sense of place to the pleasantly stark stage...in particular, many of the scenes that involve Boom, Ax and Kuroko are perfectly lit to inspire fear."
"Stoeri creates moods with the lighting, highlighting the feel of the scenes. Creating shadows of different colors through the windows to evoke hope or danger depending on what is needed."