Jeff McCrum is a New York based lighting designer. He started his career working throughout the Midwest in various regional theatres (The Pittsburgh Public, The Goodman, Steppenwolf) as well as spending time as a member of IATSE Local 3 and working for various tours. After being accepted to NYU's Tisch graduate program, he moved to New York in 2000 and spent three years collaborating with some of the world's finest designers. Some of his shows there included La Casa Nova (Dir.
Livui Culei), Pygmalion (Dir. Victor Pappas) and Lie of the Mind (Dir. Jim Calder). His thesis design was for Ted Tally's Terra Nova, during which he became fascinated by the Robert Scott/Roald Amundsen Antarctic expeditions of 1911-12.
Post-graduation, Jeff stayed in New York and assisted the renowned Imero Fiorentino on numerous projects before moving into the television industry full-time as a lighting director at CNN. After two years of working during prime time, he wanted to pursue more permanent projects and went into architectural lighting as a designer for Fisher Marantz Stone, where he remains today. Some favorite recent projects include the jetBlue terminal at JFK, the Venetian Macau, the World Trade Center Tribute in Light and the majority of the new World Trade Center area.
His photographic work has been greatly influenced by a number of people along the way. Artists such as Monet, Cezanne, Hopper, Adams and Evans to contemporary photographers like Troy Pavia, Christopher Payne, Stanley Greenberg and Light Art Performance Photography. Jeff's current fascinations include industrial areas, abandoned buildings and low-light conditions (hopefully all three). He hopes you enjoy his work.