Purchase Professor Is Lighting Director For Super Bowl 2011

Purchase, NY - When the Black Eyed Peas, perform at the Super Bowl XLV half-time show on February 6, Purchase College Professor David Grill will once again be in the television truck as a lighting director for one of the most watched shows in the country.

FOX TV will broadcast the game and the audience is estimated to be 150 million viewers.

This is the first time Arlington, Texas is hosting the Super Bowl and the seventh time David Grill is serving as lighting director at a Super Bowl.

With a new album and a huge audience of young fans, the NFL expects the Grammy winning hip hop Black Eyed Peas to attract new and younger fans. They are the first non-rock act to perform on television’s biggest stage in seven years.

David Grill is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and a Coordinator of the Design/Technology Department at Purchase College. He has designed lighting for theatre, dance, opera, television, architectural projects and industrials which have taken him from the Great Wall of China to the Great Stage at Radio City Music Hall.

Grill was nominated for a Chicago Midwest Emmy for Milwaukee Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, a daytime Emmy for the Opening Ceremonies of the Pan American Games Rio in 2007, and received a primetime Emmy for the Opening Ceremony Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

He has lit the national tour of Sweet Charity, Cinderellabration at the Walt Disney World Resort Magic Kingdom Park and served  as associate lighting designer for the musical Who’s Tommy which won Tony, Dora, and Olivier Awards for Best Lighting.  He also provided lighting direction for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

His television credits include lighting designs for Last Comic Standing II, Republican National Convention 2008, Larry King Live.  He has also been lighting director for CNN’s Atlanta Studio, the National Memorial Day and July 4th concerts and Super Bowl  XLIV, XLI, XL, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXV half-time shows.

He has been a lighting designer for numerous dance companies including Ballet Met, Milwaukee Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Houston Ballet, Ballet Austin, ABT 2, to name a few.

Architectural projects include the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Museum, Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park and the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Florida Fossils.  His extensive Corporate Theater credits include Estee Lauder, Pfizer, Georgetown University, ITT, Mass Mutual, Dow Jones, and Verizon.