Cris Dopher is a full-time lighting and scenic designer in New York and the surrounding area.  He’s lit shows off- and off-off-Broadway (Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Bash, Rebel Without A Cause) and assisted on the original New York productions of Full Monty and Batboy with lighting designer Howell Binkley.  In 2005, he was involved in the Lincoln Center Festival, designing the lighting rigs for Elvis Costello, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and an immense 12-hour performance of Sir John Tavener's The Veil of the Temple.  Cris has lit everything from one-man shows to companies of several hundred performers in venues as wide-ranging as tiny off-off-Broadway playhouses, tent theaters,  runways, display windows, & Broadway houses, most recently lighting The Drowsy Chaperone for a private academy.

Cris is also a scenic designer.  As a designer at Spaeth Design, he has designed Macy's on State and Lord & Taylor animated holiday windows for several years.  Before that, he was an associate at Insight Design, designing large corporate events for IBM, Nokia, Cingular, and Polaroid.  His latest scenic designs include sets for Guys & Dolls, Urinetown, and Inherit The Wind.    

When not designing, Cris teaches Vectorworks at Fashion Institute of Technology and is a trainer/consultant for Resolve Software, a Canadian software training company.  

Mr. Dopher received his B.S.Ed. degrees and MA in theatre from Missouri State University, and an MFA in Design from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, in 2000.  He is an active athlete, having run two marathons and more than a dozen half-marathons.  He has ridden with the Long Reach Long Riders since 2003, participating in charity motorcycle rides to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Behind The Scenes.