Meet the team

Justin Townsend

Justin Townsend is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and founding member of TENT. He provided the lighting design for URT’s 2011 production of Fever Chart. In NYC, lighting designs include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Dance Dance Revolution (with Alex Timbers); Monstrosity (13P); Opus (Primary Stages); Speech and Debate (Roundabout); Eve Ensler’s The Treatment (The Culture Project); Food Project (Lightbox); Drums of the Waves of the Horikawa (Theatre of a Two Headed Calf); and Beauty on the Vine, Palace of the End and Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven (Epic Theatre). Regionally, Mr. Townsend has designed lighting for the A.R.T. (Elliot Norton Award for The Onion Cellar), Arden Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre (Ovation Nominee for Apollo), The Intiman, Playmakers Rep, Portland Center Stage, The Boston Court and Georgia Shakespeare Festival.  Scenic work includes collaborations with Two-Headed Calf, Alec Duffy, Lear Debessonet and Jen Harvey.