Cory Pattak is a New York City based Lighting Designer. Broadway: The Great Gatsby (Broadway Theatre), A Wonderful World (Studio 54), Spamalot (St. James Theatre), Off-Broadway: The Lucky Star (59E59), Final Follies (Primary Stages), Stalking the Bogeyman (New World Stages), Revolution in the Elbow…(Minetta Lane), Handle with Care (Westside Theatre), Skippyjon Jones (Theatreworks USA), This Side of Paradise (St. Clements), Unlocked, Nymph Errant, With Glee, The Blue Flower (Prospect Theatre Comp), Hot Mess in Manhattan (Chernuchin), Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (HERE), The Maiden’s Prayer (InProximity Theatre), Mercy Thieves, Ride (Outhouse Theatre), They’re Playing Our Song, Our Town (Actor’s Fund), Thank You Kind Spirit (Target Margin), Happy We’ll Be (Roseland Ballroom), Freddie Falls in Love (Diamond Stage), Spitting in the Face of the Devil (United Solo Fest), Subverted (Theatre 54) and many NY Fringe and NYMF shows.
Regional credits include The Great Gatsby (Paper Mill Playhouse), A Wonderful World (Saenger Theatre, New Orleans/Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago), Flashdance: the musical (US National Tour), 50 Years of Broadway at the Kennedy Center (KC Opera House), Nine, Bye Bye Birdie, tick, tick…BOOM, Spamalot, Sunset Boulevard, Guys and Dolls, Next to Normal, Footloose, The Music Man, In the Heights, Little Shop of Horrors (Kennedy Center-Broadway Center Stage), Rent in Concert (National Symphony Orchestra/Kennedy Center Concert Hall), Cabaret, Dog and Pony (Old Globe), 42nd Street, Passing Through, The Fabulous Lipitones (Goodspeed Musicals), In the Heights (Olney Theatre; Helen Hayes Nom- Best Lighting Design), Next to Normal (Barrington Stage Company), The Nutty Professor (Ogunquit Playhouse), Cabaret, The Sound of Music (Asolo Rep), A Little More Alive, Side by Side by Sondheim (Kansas City Rep), A Wonderful World (Miami New Drama - Carbonell Winner Best Lighting Design), Beauty and the Beast (Ordway Center for the Performing Arts), Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods (Portland Stage), Joseph…,Beauty and the Beast, The Prince of Egypt, Newsies, When You Wish (Tuacahn Amphitheater), Sweet Charity, Chicago, West Side Story, Newsies, Born Yesterday, The Audience, Other Desert Cities, Me and My Girl (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Everything is Wonderful, The Book of Joseph (Everyman Theatre), Million Dollar Quartet, Little Shop of Horrors (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Everything is Wonderful (Philadelphia Theatre Company), The Eyes of the World (Carnegie Hall/Kennedy Center Opera House), The Moon and the Sea (Constellation Stage + Screen), Single Girls Guide, A Christmas Carol (Cap Rep), Havana Music Hall (Actors' Playhouse; Carbonell Nom), Ebenezer Scrooge's Big Playhouse Christmas Show (Bucks County Playhouse), Santaland Diaries, Fully Committed (Syracuse Stage), Mansfield Park (Indianapolis Opera), Xanadu (Hangar Theatre), The Other Place, The Road to Where, Forever (Weston Playhouse), The Rocky Horror Show (Lyric Theatre of OK), In the Heights (Sacramento Music Circus), Always, Patsy Cline (Bristol Riverside), Liberty (Warner Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Arkansas Rep), Shipwrecked! (Penguin Rep), Violet (Capital City Theatre), 42nd Street (Resorts Casino, Atlantic City), A Chorus Line, Rent, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, Hairspray, South Pacific, The Music Man, Memphis, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1776, Once (Engeman Theatre), High School Musical (Surflight), Woodloch Pines Resort Showroom Show, Noises Off, Les Miserables, Spelling Bee, Parallel Lives, Boeing Boeing, No Sex Please... (Northern Stage), Cats, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Footloose, Annie (Pittsburgh Musical Theatre)
International/Cruise: Pretty Woman (IMM, São Paulo, Brazil), Sunset Boulevard (IMM, São Paulo, Brazil; Bibi Ferreira Award Best Lighting Design), Singin' In The Rain (IMM, São Paulo, Brazil; Bibi Ferreira Award Best Lighting Design), Letters to Santa Clause (Misi Producciones, Bogatá Colombia), In the Heights (Coliso de Puerto Rico, San Juan), Footloose (Norwegian Cruise Line,) Le Cabaret Rouge (MSC Cruises/RWS Entertainment)
Associate/Assistant: Newsies (Broadway, US Tour, Netflix Film, Papermill Playhouse), Peter and the Starcatcher (Broadway -Tony Award Best Lighting Deign, US Tour, NYTW, New World Stages), A Time to Kill, An Evening with Patti Lupone & Mandy Patinkin, The Story of My Life, Irena’s Vow (Broadway), Heathers: the musical (New World Stages), Daddy Long Legs (Off-Broadway/Regional/London), Chicago, Wizard of Oz (US Tours), 42nd Street (TOTS Tour), Side Effects (MCC), Paint Your Wagon, Lost in the Stars, Where’s Charley (Encores!) Essential Self-Defense, Rapture Blister Burn (Playwrights Horizons), The Internationalist (Vineyard) and multiple years of BC/EFA Easter Bonnet and Broadway Backwards.
Cory is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design/Technical Theatre from Syracuse University. He is the writer and Co-Executive Producer/Creator of the ‘Light Humor’ animated series for 4Wall Entertainment and is also the host and creator of in 1: the podcast, a podcast featuring interviews with theatrical designers available at in1podcast.com and in the iTunes store.
Upcoming: The Great Gatsby (London Coliseum), Jesus Christ Superstar (Asolo Rep), Legally Blonde (Kennedy Center-Broadway Center Stage)