Daniel H. Jentzen is a lighting designer, production designer, programmer, cinematographer, photographer, and teacher. He has created lighting and/or stage designs for over 600 plays, musicals, concerts, and special events including Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Hawking, LL Cool J, Alison Krauss, Aziz Ansari, Conan O’Brien, En Vogue, Chaka Khan, Anaïs Mitchell, Eden Espinosa, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O’Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Huntington Theatre Company, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, Vice Media, Google, and Disney. 

He specializes in designing live shows that blend several different art forms: special events that incorporate speeches, live music, and dance parties, corporate events with dramatic lightshows, and theatre with live music and responsive technology onstage. He enjoys creating multifaceted designs that don’t compromise on any of these performance’s unique needs.

He also specializes in hybrid live+camera events that look great to a live audience while being correctly lit for multi-camera shoots. He programs ETC Eos and GrandMA control systems.

Dan teaches lighting design at the Boston Arts Academy and is a teaching artist with Boston Lyric Opera. He also founded Brighter Boston, a nonprofit organization that gives teenagers paid internships backstage on professional shows. He’s currently writing a book on education and doing research on multisensory perception, exploring the unique power of the arts in the human mind.

 Dan holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon and an Ed.M. in Educational Neuroscience from Harvard University. He’s an avid hiker, rock climber, snowboarder, and dad.