Kevin A. Jones

Lighting Designer

*Lighting Design for 2023 premiere, Michhil Amra

Kevin A. Jones has worked in the professional dance and theater community for 40 years. He was resident lighting designer and production manager for James Sewell Ballet for 20 years. His designs have illuminated internationally acclaimed ballets such as Moving Works, Barrage, Appalachia Waltz, Your Move, and Guy Noir: The Ballet. Jones designed for Minnesota Dance Theatre, CAAM Dance, SOLO, The McKnight Dance Fellows, and many others. He lit Sharon Eyal / Gai Behar’s Killer Pig for Gauthier Dance at the Colours International Dance Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2017, and for Rambert2 in London and other venues in the UK in 2018-2019. Jones is the Production Manager for The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University, where Dr. Maya Angelou declared him “one of the best stage managers in America.” He designed and implemented the lighting and sound systems for the TEK Box at the Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts. He also designed and implemented the dance floors and audio/visual systems for ADT’s Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice.