As an Entertainment Lighting Designer, Associate Designer and Programmer, Bobby Harrell has enjoyed Broadway productions of Spring Awakening (Broadway, National Tour, London), Enron, The Iceman Cometh, The History Boys, Wild Party, Medea, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, Two and Only, The Year of Magical Thinking, Vincent in Brixton, Private Lives, Tale of Two Cities, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, The Seagull, The Seafarer, and Cabaret. As well as productions with Lincoln Center Festival, San Francisco Opera, The Bolshoi Ballet, Pilobolus, Geffen Playhouse, The Moscow Ballet, Ft. Worth Opera and Ft. Worth Ballet. Additional productions include Les Miserables, The Rocky Horror Puppet Show, Boobs! The Musical, Watership Downs, A Little Night Music, Deep Down (NY and Philadelphia), The Nutcracker, The Magic Flute, Les Liasons Dangereuses, Forbidden Broadway, Henry IV, Steel Magnolias, You Can’t Take It With You, A Lie of the Mind, The Barber of Seville, Bedroom Farce, La Gioconda, and The Merry Widow. He has also lit events for The Coronation of the Queen of the Order of the Alamo and many corporate productions. He has programmed over 10 years of productions with the Resident Ensemble Players.
As Vari-Lite’s Business Development Manager, he provides training and education for Vari-Lite systems design and product demonstration support.