Christopher Annas-Lee

Sensory Designer, Librettist

Christopher Annas-Lee is a multimedia artist specializing in light, based in NYC. He works in theatre, dance, opera, and sculpture, and is the founder of Annas-Lee Design Group, a vehicle for telling community-focused, design-driven stories, promoting collaboration in which all voices are heard, and making a buck consulting on architectural projects in order to fund the above.

He is a Resident Designer with Night Drive (NYC, 2015-Present), Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre (NYC, 2022-Present), Flamenco Aparicio (DC, 2015-Present), and formerly Boston Dance Theatre (2019-2022), Mimi Garrard Dance (NYC, 2017-2023), GALA Hispanic Theatre (DC, 2014-2022), and Circuit Theatre (MA, 2009-2014). Recent credits include the US Tour of this very work, Origami Night, as well as The Trojans (Lighting Designer, the cell, NYC, nomination for Henry Hewes Design Award), The Censorship of Dreams (Lighting & Scenic Designer, La Mama, NYC), Sugar Hill: The Ellington / Strayhorn Nutcracker (Lighting Designer, Chicago Auditorium, IL), Enredo (Lighting & Video Designer, Flamenco Aparicio, DC), Pinnacle Works (Lighting Designer, Boston Dance Theater, MA), and Borders (Lighting & Scenic Designer, Tabula Rasa, NY).

Christopher is the recipient of three Helen Hayes awards (On Your Feet!, In the Heights, and Yerma), and four DC Broadway World Awards (Fame, En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas, and In The Heights) including their 2020 award for Best Lighting Design of the Decade. He holds a BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts and was the 2014/15 Kenan Lighting Fellow at the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the 2017 Princess Grace Design Fellow (Fabergé Theater Award).

His portfolio is available at www.annaslee.com and on Instragram @ldannaslee.