Richard Norwood

Trap Door credits

Lighting Design

All shows at Trap Door since 1994!

  • Nana (2024)
  • Mother Courage and her Children
  • The Pragmatists
  • Bowie in Warsaw
  • Joan and the Fire
  • Princess Ivona
  • Medea Material
  • The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey
  • Queen C
  • Lipstick Lobotomy
  • The White Plague 
  • Love and Information 
  • The Killer 
  • 25/25 Festival
  • Tango
  • The Old Woman Broods
  • Monsieur D’eon is a Woman
  • Letter of Love (The Fundamentals of Judo)
  • The Locketeer
  • THEY
  • Occidental Express
  • Into The Empty Sky
  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 
  • Phèdre
  • Fantasy Island for Dummies
  • No Matter How Hard We Try
  • How to Explain The History of Communism to Mental Patients
  • The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
  • The Universal Wolf
  • The Woman Before
  • La Bête
  • Cookie Play
  • John Doe
  • Regarding The Just
  • Vatzlav
  • The Balcony
  • The Unveiling and Dozens of Cousins
  • The Arsonists
  • Smartphones
  • Anger/Fly
  • the word progress on my mother’s lips doesn’t ring true
  • OVERWEIGHT, unimportant: MISSHAPE – A European Supper
  • First Ladies
  • HamletMachine
  • Me Too, I am Catherine Deneuve
  • A Couple of Poor, Polish Speaking Romanians
  • Horses at the Window
  • No Darkness Around My Stone (US Premier)
  • The Beastly Bombing
  • Eva Peron
  • Emma
  • Swan
  • Alice In Bed
  • The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
  • Request Programme
  • The Fourth Sister
  • Old Clown Wanted
  • Amerikafka
  • People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless
  • The Garden of Delights
  • The Venetian Twins
  • Katzelmacher
  • Nana
  • The Flies
  • The Architect and Emperor of Assyria
  • Quills
  • The Shoemakers
  • Automobile Graveyard
  • Morocco
  • Night Coil
  • Baal
  • Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes
  • Forty Deuce
  • The Pitchfork Disney
  • La Ronde
  • The Crazy Locomotive
  • Pre Paradise Sorry Now!
  • Lebensraum
  • Feedlot
  • The Killing Game
  • Polaroid Stories
  • Poona The Fuckdog (World Premiere)
  • Orpheus Descending
  • Squat
  • Alien Hand
  • Sugar Down Billie Hoak
  • The Mother
  • Bremem Freedom
  • Road to Nirvana
  • Fever Dream Cocktail
  • Somethings You Need to Know Before The World Ends
  • Dad’s Ham
  • Dutchman
  • Big Mother
  • Audience: The Vanek Plays
  • DeathWatch
  • The Boys of the Peggy August Club
  • Troy Women (World Premiere)
  • The White Whore and the Bit Player
  • Blood on the Cat’s Neck
  • Tattoo
  • Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo
  • Aria Da Capo
  • The Maids
  • Dr. Faustus

Resident Lighting Designer

Lighting designer Richard Norwood (he/him/his) has been a part of the Trap Door community since 1994. Originally from Pittsburgh, he received his BFA in lighting design and stage technology from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Gallery

The lighting design by Richard Norwood captures the beauty of the concept.

Jacob Davis, Around the Town (about Queen C)

All of this is played very sincerely, with Richard Norwood’s richly colored lighting maintaining a mood of awe…

Jacob Davis, Around the Town (About Joan and the Fire)

Richard Norwood’s lighting design beautifully captures these scenes.

Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times (about the word progress on my mother’s lips doesn’t ring true)

…ideally lit by Richard Norwood…

Hedy Weiss, Best of Chicago’s Fringe Theatre Scene of 2011 Chicago Sun-Times (about the word progress on my mother’s lips doesn’t ring true)

Lighting designer Richard Norwood created some stunning tableaus for such a small space.

Clare Kosinski, Chicago Theatre Review (about The Balcony)

Stark lighting and strobe lights by Richard Norwood pair nicely with a mechanical sound-scape…

Sophie Vitello, Chicago Theatre Review  (about Love and Information)

…and lighting designer Richard Norwood’s final cue perfectly sums up the show’s aura.

Lauren Whalen, Chicago Theatre Beat (about The Arsonists)

The small Trap Door space has been effectively utilized, particularly by Richard Norwood, whose lighting design runs from forbidding shadows to swirling candy-colored disco effects.

Kerry Reid, Chicago Reader (about The Shoemakers)