Victor En Yu Tan (associate professor of lighting design) has designed over 400 productions in his career since making his New York professional debut designing Frank Chin’s Year of the Dragon for the American Place Theatre in 1974.   He has designed over 35 shows for the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre including the critically acclaimed 2005 production of Cambodia Agonistes, and over 25 shows for the New York Shakespeare Festival including the NYC premiere of George Wolfe’s The Colored Museum, the world premieres of Ntosake Shange’s For Colored Girls . . ., Spell # 7, and A Photograph, the NYC premieres of David Henry Hwang’s FOB and Dance and the Railroad, and Andrei Serban’s adaptation of Master And Magarita.  His Broadway and off-Broadway credits include the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of As You Like It, Macbeth, and Romeo And Juliet at the Belasco Theater, Joy Luck Club at TheatreFour, Sheila’s Day at the New Victory Theatre, the Yiddish musicals, The Golden Land and On Second Avenue, Noa Ain's opera Trio at Carnegie Hall, and many others.  He also designed for Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Crossroads Theatre, Sacramento Opera, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Pasadena Playhouse, Asolo Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Sacramento Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, American Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida State Opera, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and many others.  His lighting design of the Missouri Repertory Theatre production of Machinal was selected to represent American designers at the Scenography Exposition, Prague Quadrennial 2003.  His awards include the Obie Award (NYC Off-Broadway) for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design,  the Villager Award (NYC Off-Off-Broadway) for outstanding Lighting Design of Before She Was Even Born, the Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre of The Colored Museum, Kansas City Drama Desk Award for Best lighting Design of The Deputy, The Sarasota & Manatee Critics’ SAMMY Award for Best Lighting Design of Nicholas Nickleby Pt. I & II, and a Maharam Citation for Lighting Design from the American Theatre Wing for Ntozake Shange’s A Photograph.