Jaymi Lee Smith

Jaymi Lee Smith

Lighting Designer, Great Expectations

In one season at OSF: The Taming of the Shrew, Two Trains Running.

Other theatres: Off-Broadway: A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Pearl Theatre Company). Regional: Vietgone, Peter and the Starcatcher, TopDog/Underdog (South Coast Repertory); The Who and the What (La Jolla Playhouse); Animal Crackers (Denver Center Theatre Company); The Wiz, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Dallas Theater Center); Pygmalion (Pasadena Playhouse); Twelve Angry Men, The 39 Steps, The Glass Menagerie and 13 others (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Orlando (Court Theatre); How the World Began (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); The Dazzle, Uncle Vanya (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and others. 

Awards: Joseph Jefferson Award (Mary's Wedding), Michael Merritt Emerging Artist Award, Column Award (Rocky Horror Picture Show), Ovation Award Nomination (The Children, The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll), Henry Award nomination (Animal Crackers), Joseph Jefferson nomination (Orlando, Yellowman, Terrible Girls, The Incident). 

Education: BFA, The Theater School, DePaul University.