From: Dublin, Ireland. LA Opera: Così fan tutte (2025).
Jane Cox is a lighting designer for theater, opera, dance and music. She has been nominated for two Tony Awards, for her work on Jitney (2017) and on Machinal (2014). She has also been nominated for four Drama Desk awards and three Lortel awards, and in 2013, was award the Henry Hewes Design Award for her work on The Flick. In 2016, she was award the Ruth Morley Design Award by the League of Professional Theater Women, and a British What's Onstage award for her work on Hamlet.
Designs include The Marriage of Figaro at San Francisco Opera, Fefu and Her Friends at Theater for a New Audience in New York City; King Lear with Glenda Jackson on Broadway; a new musical adaptation of Secret Life of Bees (Drama Desk nom.), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui directed by John Doyle; a theatrical adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' book Between the World and Me, directed by Kamilah Forbes, and a revival of True West on Broadway, directed by James McDonald.
