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{"value"=>"24262", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 476", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1968-1994", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968/1994"}
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{"value"=>"Craig Miller designs and papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"58 boxes, 10 tubes, 4 oversize folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"30.12 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"32 computer files", "unit"=>"computer_files"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"831 kilobytes", "unit"=>"kilobytes"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Craig Miller (1950-1994) was an American lighting designer who worked in dance, opera, theater, and musical performances. The Craig Miller designs and papers date from 1969 to 1994 and document Miller's short but prolific career through designs and documents relating to productions on which Miller worked; his early work; correspondence; business files, and photographs."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"Miller, Craig J., 1950-1994", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Craig Miller designed lighting for dance, opera, and theatrical productions, as well as musical concerts on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in experimental venues, and regional theaters, primarily in the United States.</p> <p>Miller attended Northwestern University from 1969 to 1972. After graduation, he taught lighting design at Barat College in Illinois, designing lighting for student productions there and working professionally as a lighting designer for dance and theatrical performances in the region. In 1976 he moved to New York City and began working on Broadway dance and theatrical productions, initially as the assistant to lighting designer Thomas Skelton.</p> <p>Miller served as resident lighting designer for the Lar Lubovitch, Alvin Ailey, Laura Dean, and Elisa Monte dance companies and, for fifteen seasons, at the Santa Fe Opera. He also worked frequently with the Boston Ballet, the Dallas Opera, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Spoleto Festival, the Goodspeed Opera House, the Long Wharf Theater, and the Tyrone Guthrie Theater. His Broadway theater credits include: <span class=\"title\">Black Comedy/White Liars</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Most Happy Fella</span>, <span class=\"title\">Safe Sex</span>, <span class=\"title\">On Golden Pond</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Wind in the Willows</span> and <span class=\"title\">Take Me Along</span>. His work on <span class=\"title\">Barnum</span> in 1980 earned him a Tony nomination. In 1992 and 1993 he collaborated with artist David Hockney on <span class=\"title\">Die Frau ohne Schatten</span> staged at the Royal Opera House in London and at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.</p> <p>Miller died of cancer in 1994 at age 43.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Craig Miller designs and papers represent Miller's short, but prolific, career as a lighting designer principally through \"lighting paperwork,\" i.e. lighting plots, designs, plans, diagrams, records created as productions were staged, and other documents relating to productions on which he worked. Business files, files on Miller's early work, a small amount of correspondence, and photographs are also present.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Craig Miller designs and papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/24262#c1516696'>Series I: Early Work and Teaching</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1968-1975</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series represents Miller's early work in Illinois prior to his relocation to New York City. There is some overlap among materials relating to Miller's student work at Northwestern University, work in community theater and professional productions staged in and around Chicago, and his work as a theater instructor at Barat College. During this period, especially when he was a student, Miller worked in roles other than that of lighting designer, including director, actor, and set designer; content of files varies to reflect these different capacities.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/24262#c1516720'>Series II: Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1970s-1989</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>These two files of photographs consist primarily of slides documenting Miller's lighting designs in use onstage. A few photographic prints are also present.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/24262#c1516723'>Series III: Business</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1970-1993</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Business series contains daily planner calendars from 1976 through 1992; Miller's bio sheets and resumes; files of articles about other lighting designers and theater colleagues; templates and blank forms; and technical reference material.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/24262#c1516747'>Series IV: Productions</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1976-1994</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The productions series includes work Miller did after moving to New York City in 1976. Though he traveled frequently and worked at venues throughout the United States, he remained based in New York City for the remainder of his career. Lighting paperwork occupies the greatest portion of the series. Also included are scripts, some with Miller's handwritten notes; scores; and a few files of review clippings relating to productions on which Miller worked.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/24262#c1517035'>Series V: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1970s-1994</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Correspondence includes notes and letters from colleagues, a few letters from family members and friends, and many cards expressing sympathy and encouragement following Miller's cancer diagnosis.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Stan Pressner / Pressner Studios, 2017.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Heather Halliday</span>, <span class=\"date\">2018</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1968
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1968
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1994
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1968
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1994
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30.12 linear feet (58 boxes, 10 tubes, 4 oversize folders); 831 kilobytes (32 computer files)
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{"value"=>"Craig Miller designs and papers, *MGZMD 476. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}