I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand t…

- Jennifer Tipton

I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changi…

- Jennifer Tipton

There is a way to support the art and to allow and encourage the art to flourish while being critical. In fact, I find in teaching that self-critique…

- Jennifer Tipton

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

- Jennifer Tipton

I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to somethi…

- Jennifer Tipton

I feel also that the rhythm of a production is made by the lighting. If it feels like it's too long and too slow, it may well be because the light is…

- Jennifer Tipton

After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwh…

- Jennifer Tipton

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but on…

- Jennifer Tipton