Daniel H. Jentzen is a lighting designer, production designer, programmer, cinematographer, photographer, and teacher. He has created lighting and/or stage designs for over 800 plays, musicals, concerts, broadcasts, and special events including Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Hawking, LL Cool J, Brandi Carlile, Alison Krauss, Conan O’Brien, En Vogue, Chaka Khan, Anaïs Mitchell, Steve McQueen, Dierks Bentley, Eden Espinosa, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O’Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Huntington Theatre Company, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, Vice Media, Google, and Disney.
Dan is the founder of Brighter Boston, a nonprofit organization that gives teenagers paid internships backstage on professional shows. He also teaches lighting design at Emerson College. He’s also taught at Boston University and Salem State University, and is a teaching artist with Boston Lyric Opera.
He also conducts 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 Education & Neuroscience from Harvard University. He’s an avid hiker, rock climber, snowboarder, and dad.
