Mark Simpson, Associate, Director of Lighting Design, has been working in architectural lighting for 22 years and has led the lighting studio at Celano Design Studio for 11 years, designing lighting for over 50 restaurants, 4 food halls, 5 nightclubs, 12 hotels, the tallest residential tower on Florida’s west coast, a Times Square flagship bakery, and select residences, clubs, retail, and offices. His work can be seen in Las Vegas, Florida, Vancouver, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, Washington DC, New Jersey, New York, California, Ohio, and soon in Perth, Australia, some have won International Muse Design Award for Gold Key and Platinum Key Awards. Clients have included celebrity chefs like Buddy Valastro, Michael White, and Jeremy Ford.
Mark received a Master’s of Fine Arts from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1999 and began to work on Broadway for the next 13 years. He was the associate lighting designer for 12 Broadway shows and many national tours, including The Full Monty, Les Miserable, In the Heights, The Color Purple, Memphis the Musical, and Minelli on Minelli, where Liza sat next to him to sing “The Trolley Song” during rehearsal.