For over 40 years, Clifton Taylor has created lighting, projection, and scenic designs for theater, dance, and opera companies around the world. He has also designed a number of unique concert music events for major orchestras, solo musicians, and large-scale venues. His work has been commissioned on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and in seventeen countries outside the US. Clifton taught design as an associate professor at UNCSA with additional extensive experience lecturing at NYU, Yale, the New York Choreographic Institute, LDI, and Showlight. He has also had academic appointments at the Juilliard School, the University of Iowa, and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He has a long-standing interest in education and holds a MaEd from the Adult Education Program at ECU. Clifton is the author of the book on color for lighting designers: “Color and Light, Navigating Color Mixing in the Midst of an LED Revolution.”