| Gregory Cohen In corporate theatre, he has designed press events for America Online, Vivendi, Sun Microsystems, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Seagrams, General Motors, and Daimler Chrysler. He has lit sales meetings for Coca-Cola, Lennox, Avon (US and Canada), Office Depot, Staples, Prudential Real Estate, National Life of Vermont, and Sherwin Williams. Pharmaceutical events include launches and sales meetings for Eli Lilly, Bristol Myers Squibb, Berlex, Micardis, and Shearing. He designed upfronts for theWB, Lifetime Television and TV Land and users' groups meetings for PeopleSoft, SAP, Hyperion and HP. He has done trade show design for Avid/Soft Image, SAP and Mentor Graphics. He has lit national dealer meetings for Nissan, Hyundai, Mazda, Honda Motorcycle, Mini and Volvo. A co-founder of UVLD, Greg has continued to work extensively with John Ingram. He has supervised the lighting installation for a number of large scale productions’ including The Louis Vuittion / Christies Classic for the past seven years, the Time Magazine 75th anniversary at Radio City Music Hall and the Christmas tree lightings in Rockefeller Center for NBC television since 1998. He also has a background in the theatrical world. He lit Saturday Night Fever in Argentina and Mexico City. New York off-Broadway credits include, Maybe Baby It’s You at St. Luke’s, Magic on Broadway at the Lambs Theater, Easy at Dance Theater Workshop, The Hasty Heart at Ubu Rep. For the Irish Repertory theater, most recently Mickey Rooney’s caberet act, as well as 14 other productions. He designed the 1999 Fireside Christmas Show, Saturday Night, South Pacific and Little Shop of Horrors at the Weston Playhouse Aunt Dan and Lemon at the Dallas Theater Center. As an associate lighting designer, he worked on The Capeman on Broadway, Art in Chicago and Los Angeles, Miss Saigon in the Netherlands, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, and in Los Angeles, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Stuttgart and London. He graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in Theater and a minor in Soviet Politics. He is a native New Yorker who would never toast a bagel. |