Ken Keith

Mr. Keith is happy to return to Canton Ballet, where he has provided lighting designs for all of Canton Ballet’s productions and scenic design for Angelo Lemmo’s Dracula…the Ballet and Frankenstein and the company’s Peter and the Wolf since 1987.

Mr. Keith is also Resident Lighting and Scenic Designer of Ballet Jose in California. In 2008, he went on an historic five week, eight city, twenty-two performance tour of China, including Shanghai, Beijing, and Wuhan at the newest and most expensively built theater in the world. His lighting works in dance includes George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations and Apollo, Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring, Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo, Roland Petit’s Carmen, and Flemming Flindt’s Red Shoes or Legs of Fire, The Lesson, Miraculous Manderin. Mr. Keith has created the lighting for many of Artistic Director Dennis Nahat’s ballets including The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Blue Suede Shoes, Celebration and Ode, Graduation Ball, US, Go Daddy O, In Studio D ,The Firebird,Carmina Burana, and numerous others. He has created lighting designs for Donald McKayle’s Death & Eros, District Storyville, Games, for Lynn Taylor-Corbett’s Diary, Ulysses Dove’s Vespers and Mary Giannone’s Autumn as well as many of the great 19th century classics.

Mr. Keith has designed numerous theatrical productions including: Annie, Anything Goes, Pippin, Pump Boys and Dinnettes, Grease, Phantom of the Opera, Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Company, La Cage au Faux, and Me and My Girl to name just a few.

Known in the worlds of dance, theatre, musical theatre, opera and concerts, Mr. Keith’s designs have been enjoyed by audiences in numerous countries in Europe, North and South American and now in China in Asia.