John Torres

John Torres Lighting designer

Biography

John Torres works across dance, theatre, music, and fashion. His collaborations with Robert Wilson include Edda and Cheek to Cheek with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. In opera, he has worked on productions of The Messiah in Salzburg, Intelligence in Houston, and Tristan und Isolde in Santa Fe. In theatre, he designed the lighting for Twelfth Night and A Bright Room Called Day at the Public Theater in New York, The Black Clown at the American Repertory Theater, Only an Octave Apart and Hamlet at St. Ann’s Warehouse, and Help: A New Play by Claudia Rankine at The Shed.

In music, he has collaborated with Solange Knowles and Florence and the Machine, and in dance, with Lucinda Childs for Available Light and Bobbi Jene Smith for Lost Mountain and Broken Theatre. In fashion, he has worked on Vogue World in New York, Bottega Veneta in Detroit, and the Gucci Love Parade in Los Angeles. He has also contributed to the exhibitions Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen? at MoMA New York and Carl Craig: Party/After Party at the Dia Beacon Foundation. In the 2025–2026 season, he will design the lighting for Tristan und Isolde in New York.

At the Paris National Opera: Turandot, 2021; Pit, 2023.

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