TELEVISION AWARDS–
- 2001-2002 Emmy Certificate of Contribution-Assoc. Lighting Director 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- 2002-2003 Emmy Certificate of Contribution- Assoc. Lighting Director, 75th Academy Awards
- 2003-2004 Emmy Certificate of Contribution- Assoc. Lighting Director, 46th Grammy Awards
- 2004-2005 Emmy Certificate of Contribution- Assoc. Lighting Director, 2004 Athens Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- 2006-2007 Emmy Certificate of Contribution- Coord. Lighting Director, 49th Grammy Awards
- 2007-2008 Emmy Certificate of Contribution- Coord. Lighting Director, 50th Grammy Awards
THEATRICAL AWARDS
- 2017 Ovation Nomination for Lighting Design The Gary Plays- Open Fist Theatre
- 2010 StageSceneLA Outstanding Lighting Design Stage Door- Open Fist Theatre
- 2005 Ovation Nomination for Lighting Design Papa- Open Fist Theatre
- 2004 L.A. Weekly Theatre Award for Lighting Design Abingdon Square- Open Fist Theatre
- 2001 Garland Award for for Lighting Design Fen- Open Fist Theatre Co.
- 1997 Dramalouge Award for Best Lighting Design Marquis Des Sades’ Justine- The Evidence Room
REVIEWS
Variety– Cirque Berzerk ”The one-time tent attraction, for several years part of California’s fabled, anything-goes summer festival, makes a stylish scenic transition to indoors. David Morong’s heavenly deconstruction of carnival hell – surrounding staircases and decaying canvas flaps – is raised almost to poetry as Dan Reed’s flashing lights keep breaking film noir shadows”
Los Angeles Times- Cirque Berzerk
“Equal parts trippy and sinister, Cirque Berzerk seems like the sort of phantasmagoric spectacle Tim Burton would dream up if he quit filmmaking to join the circus”- Los Angeles Times Opera Review: Overtone Industries ‘Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands’ “Petrovic’s extravagantly quirky installation-art sculptures, enticingly and inventively lit by Dan Reed, do, indeed, transform the dealership into a realm of its own”
- Los Angeles Times Review- Syzygy Theatre Groups Tender “Dan Reed’s multifocused lighting keep the many transitions seamless”
LA Weekly- Review Cirque Berzerk
“the only thing more ambitious than the look and sound of Cirque Berzerk is the caliber of performance..- LA Weekly Review Overtone Industries ‘Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands’– “On a visceral level you are seduced by the vibrancy of color”
- LA Weekly Review-Abingdon Square “Demson has an eye for creating gorgeous stage tableaux, and the numerous scene changes are swiftly and artfully handled, with Dan Reed’s moody lighting deserving special mention”
- Backstage West Review- The Devils “Dan Reed’s lighting shows the city behind the action systematically devoured by explosions and flames… all part of a brilliant director’s mad genius… a monumental production”
Variety Review- Dostoevsky’s The Devils at the Open Fist Theatre Company “The Devils” benefits from lighting designer Dan Reed’s creation of a background fire, which persuasively emphasizes a hellish atmosphere of death and disintegration”…
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Stage Los Angeles: Daddy O Dies Well at The Electric Lodge “fine technical additions of Mark I. Rosenthal and Dan Reed combine with Mednick’s trippy script to make the evening pithy in the same way a vision quest might send us out of a long night’s vigil in the desert knowing that we’ve been privy to something, perhaps something important…” - LAist– Somewhere Between Heaven and Hallucinogens: ‘DaddyO Dies Well’ at Electric Lodge “Careful attention is given to tastefully injected atmospheric lighting by Dan Reed”
- Variety Reviews – Padua Playwrights DaddyO Dies Well “…and we buy it, bewitched by Dan Reed’s shimmering lighting effects and John Zalewski’s haunting South American sound mix”
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Los Angeles Times Review- Open Fist’s Abingdon Square has dreamlike structure “(Demson) creates some marvelously ambiguous, haunting stage pictures with Maureen Weiss and Josh Worth’s set and Dan Reed’s lights”
- Backstage West Review- Abingdon Square “Design elements serve the play well… Dan Reed’s lighting design has magical, swirling patterns dance across the backdrop between scenes”
- Jetsetters Magazine Review- Abingdon Square “The stage lighting design of Dan Reed created a sense of revolving or continuing motion as the row of uplights began on one side of the stage and crossed to the other side one by one…. For those who have seen the amazing computer choreographed music, water and light show at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, you will understand the slick motion and emotion created when one views such majesty”
LA Weekly- The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union at the Open Fist “Lighting designer Dan Reed furtherenhances the cosmic evocation with stark side-beams and the glitter of constellations popping up in all corners of the theater“
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StageScene LA Review- Return from the Ashes at Theatre 40 “Nothing can be faulted in the production’s all-around terrific design elements… Dan Reed lights it beautifully… setting just the right noirish mood”
DAN REED LIGHTING DESIGN 