Paul Clay
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2010 |
Set, lighting, & Video Projections Design
Event |
Shelf Life National Theatre Wales, Volcano Theatre, Welsh National Opera |
the Old Swansea Library, Wales, UK |
2010 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
COMPRESSOR VI, Re-envisioning Metropolis Disorient |
Times Square Arts Center, NYC |
2010 |
Lighting & Video Projections Design
Theatre |
Breath on the Mirror Triple Shadow |
La MaMa E.T.C., NYC |
2010 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
DJ Rekha’s Basement Bhangra Lucky 13 Sangament |
The Filmore, NYC |
2009 |
Commissioned Video Art Installation
Event |
Mengjia-108, for Fusion Folks Contemporary Art Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs |
Bo-Pi-Liao Historic Center, Taipei City, Taiwan |
2009 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
Dikembe Mutombo Foundation Benefit The Dikembe Mutombo Foundation |
Eyebar, Washington, DC |
2008 |
Set Design
Event |
Commedia De Nederlandse Opera |
Theater Carré, Amsterdam, NL |
2008 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
Hot Wax 1 Label Launch and Album Release Party Hot Wax 1 Records |
Sounds of Brazil, NYC |
2007 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
Basement Bhangra 10 Year Anniversary Sangament |
Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC |
2007 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
Wyclef Jean’s Carnival II Memoirs of an Immigrant Album Release party SOBs/Platinum Sound |
Sounds of Brazil, NYC |
2006 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
Peter White Studio Wedding Susan Holland & Company Event Design |
Peter White Studio, NYC |
2006 |
Video Projections Design/VJ
Event |
Karsh Kale Broken English Album Release Party Label: Six Degrees |
The Canal Room, NYC |
2005 |
Lighting & Video Projections Design
Theatre |
Sea Change Triple Shadow |
Cairo International Festival for Expirimental Theater, Cairo, Egypt |
2004 |
Set, Lighting, & Video Projections Design
Event |
Perfect Contact |
Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK |
2004 |
Architectural Lighting Design
Event |
Lighting Design for entire Museum The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art |
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, USA |
2003 |
Commissioned Video Art Installation
Event |
You Are Here Diesel Denim |
Diesel Denim Gallery, NYC |
2001 |
Commissioned Video Art Installation
Event |
Fictive Boutique Levi’s® Vintage Clothing |
EXPO | SURE (Pop-Up), NYC |
2000 |
Set & Video Projections Design
Theatre |
To Lie Tenderly David Dorfman Dance |
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), USA |
1999 |
Set Design
Theatre |
Subverse David Dorfman Dance |
American Dance Festival, Durham NC |
1997 |
Set Design with projections
Theatre |
Rent – (Pulitzer prize winning Broadway Musical) The Producing Office |
Nederlander Theatre (Broadway theater) NYC |
1997 |
Interior design, architectural lighting, exterior and signage
Theatre |
Nederlander Theatre Redesign Nederlander Alliances LLC |
Nederlander Theatre (Broadway Theater) |
1997 |
Retail Store Interior Design
Event |
Illig (club clothing store) Illig |
Illig at Tunnel, NYC |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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1984 | Anthropology | University of Notre Dame |
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About me
Paul Clay is a an award winning multi media artist and designer whose recent work includes set lighting and video design for the National Theatre Wales, Volcano Theatre, Welsh National Opera co production "Shelf Life", Swansea, Wales; De Nederlandse Opera's "Commedia", Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Triple Shadow's "Breath on the Mirror" La MaMa ETC, New York. He has also done set, lighting, and video design with Mabou Mines, Susan Marshall, David Dorfman, NYTW, BAM, and many more in the New York theater and dance community.He received the 2004 Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards Best Design, for "Perfect" at Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK. He designed the set for the Pulitzer prize-winning Broadway musical "Rent", and received a 1997 Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular Award from Tibor Kalman for his redesign of the marquee and exterior of the Nederlander Theater, as well as a 1997 Drama Desk award, for "Rent", Los Angeles. Other awards include the National Endowment for the Arts/ TCG Fellowship, and the Bessie award.
He has done live visual media for events, including Wyclef Jean's Carnival II Memoirs of an Immigrant Album Release party at New York's Sounds of Brazil; the pre Obama Inauguration benefit for the not-for-profit Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, at Eyebar in, Washington DC, Bounce at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in NYC, and numerous other album and label launch parties, fashion events, and after parties.
He has designed and produced art installations and live media events for Levi's Vintage Clothing, the Diesel Denim Gallery, and the Kunsthalle Wien (contemporary art museum) Vienna, Austria.
He is also active in the New York night scene and has done visual projections for numerous club nights and party crews including DJ Rekha's Basement Bhangra, Bollywood Disco, Lipstick Optional, Blackkat, Sholay, Vinylholic, Complacent/The Danger and many others.
As a video artist and designer, he has shown internationally, been interviewed on local television in New York, and has been reviewed in such publications as The New York Times, The London Times, Time Out (New York and London), The Guardian of London, ARTnews, Tema Celeste, Print, Zingmagazine, NY ARTS magazine, Backstage, Lighting Dimensions (Live Design), American Theatre, Theater Week, City Limits (London) and more.
Industry awards:
"Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards"
Best Design. PERFECT, Set, Lighting, and live Video and computer Design, Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK, 2004
"Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular" from Tibor Kalman for marquee, and exterior of the Nederlander theater, 1997
"Drama Desk" award, Best Set Design, RENT, Los Angeles, 1997
"National Endowment for the Arts/ TCG Fellows" grant, 1994
"Bessie award" (with Lora Nelson & Cydney Wilkes) in the "Creator" category for "…superb direction, Design, and choreography" of A Window on the Nether Sea, New York, 1991
Additional information:
Quotes:
"So vivid and delicate is the lighting design by Paul Clay...that it makes traditional theatrical atmospheres seem vague and perfunctory in comparison." - Nicholas de Jongh. The Guardian (London), "Face Down" Lighting Design - Paul Clay
"trumping all else is the amazing lighting design by Paul Clay. His rich and powerful use of color and shadow lifts certain scenes to their fullest potential, making them absolutely breathtaking." -Jessie Marshall. Off Off Online, "Sea Change" and "Arctic Circle" Lighting Design - Paul Clay
"Contact Theatre excelled with Paul Clay's brave and brilliant use of live video images and multiple screens to create a disturbing landscape of fantasy versus reality for Perfect - the undisputed winner." -Diana Stenson. City Life, "M.E.N. Theatre Awards" Set lighting and Video Projections Design - Paul Clay
"Paul Clay's mesmerizing live projections, which cast simultaneous distortions of video footage from the performance onto draperies. These result in several unforgettable stage compositions" -Mitch Montgomery. Back Stage "Breath on the Mirror" Lighting and Video Projections Design - Paul Clay
"Deliriously beautiful..." -Steve Rogers. City Limits "Face Down" Lighting Design - Paul Clay
(See www.paulclaydesign.com for full scans of all these articles and many more.)
Skills
Job Titles | Set Artist / Designer, Events Management / Support, Content Producer, Lighting Designer |
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Years in industry | 6+ years |
Work Permits | EU, USA |