Franklin Meissner Jr.
Lighting Designer

Footloose at the Company Theatre
Seussical at Concord Youth Theatre

Franklin Meissner, Jr. has designed the lighting for well over 200 performances and productions, including concerts, dance, Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre, on stages all over the country and in Aruba. His work also includes 40 Carnegie Hall performances. Mr. Meissner has designed the lighting for concerts by such celebrities as Bill Cosby, The Marshall Tucker Band, Beatlemania, The Bacon Brothers, Juice Newton, Mel Torme, and The Manhattan Transfer. Locally, he is the Resident Lighting Designer for the Concord Youth Theatre Company in Concord, MA. Mr. Meissner is a member of United Scenic Artists, local 829. He lives with his wife Rachel and daughter Abby in Hingham. He is the proud recipient of a 2001 IRNE award for his work on Moby Dick at the New Repertory Theatre in Newton, MA and a 2003 IRNE award for his work on Sweeney Todd at New Repertory Theatre and Haymarket at Boston Playwrights Theatre.

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Haymarket at Boston Playwright's
Sweeney Todd at New Rep

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Lighting by Franklin Meissner, Jr. adds to the emotional impact, creating subtle time, place and mood shifts that alternate between eloquence and intimacy.” Jan Nargi, Broadway World.com

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