Jeff Adelberg is an award-winning, Boston-based designer for theatre, opera, and dance, and has designed over 300 productions. Jeff's work has appeared at the American Repertory Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Capital Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Actors' Shakespeare Project, The GAMM Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, and many others.
Jeff's work has earned four Eliott Norton Awards for design: in 2020, for Underground Railway's Vanity Fair as well as Arlekin's The Seagull; in 2017 for Actors' Shakespeare Project's Edward II, and in 2010 for SpeakEasy Stage's Adding Machine: A Musical. He has received the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Award four times: twice for his lighting designs for Actors' Shakespeare Project, an organization specializing in site-specific productions, for 2009's The Duchess of Malfi and 2011's The Hotel Nepenthe; again in 2018 for Speakeasy Stage's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; and most recently in 2019 for Underground Railway Theatre's Frankenstein.
Much of Jeff's work centers around director/designer David R. Gammons, with whom he has collaborated on over 30 productions ranging from Shakespeare to new plays by local playwrights to devised, ensemble-based work. And, since 2010, Jeff has designed the lighting for Boston's annual Midwinter Revels, a local holiday tradition for over 50 years featuring music, theatre, and dance performance from around the world, written and directed by Paddy Swanson.
As an educator, Jeff has been teaching at Boston College's Theatre Department since 2003 and, recently joined the faculty at Harvard University's Theatre, Dance, and Media department. He has also taught courses for Brandeis, Boston University, MIT, Northeastern, and Fitchburg State University and has been a guest lecturer and/or guest artist at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The New England Conservatory, Harvard, Northeastern, Suffolk, Tufts, The Hartt School, Concord Academy, and others. Jeff is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and a member of USA-829.
