Stephen Petrilli is a Boston based lighting designer with over 45 years of experience in theatre, dance, opera, music and touring.
He has designed shows for Anikaya Dance Theater, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Nathan Trice/Rituals, Prometheus Dance, Doppelganger Dance Collective, Noche Flamenca, Zoe Dance, Shapiro & Smith Dance, Ailey II and The Kevin Wynn Collection. He also spent five years touring as the Lighting/Sound Supervisor for Pilobolus and has stage managed six seasons of Dance Africa at BAM.
Theatre credits include work for Bridge Rep of Boston, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Arlekin Players' Theatre, Provincetown Theater, Gloucester Stage, The Pearl Theatre Company, NAATCo, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and The Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
In the world of music, Stephen has designed for Mos Def at BAM/Brooklyn Next, Bang on a Can, The New York Guitar Festival and the Salt Marsh Opera.
Stephen has a twenty year old son, Liam.