Jaron Kent Hermansen Lighting & Projection Designer

Jaron recently designed the U.S. Premier of Baz Lurman’s Strictly Ballroom at Hale Center Theater In Salt Lake City, Utah. From 2017 to 2019 Jaron was the resident Lighting Designer for The oldest operating summer theater in the nation; The Cape Playhouse, where his credits include Little Shop of Horrors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Deathtrap, Clue, Altar Boyz, Steel Magnolias, Sylvia, Art, Red, The Foreigner, and Murder for Two (The Cape Playhouse-Dennis, MA)

Among his Credits are Elf (Arizona Broadway Theater,-Phoenix, AZ); The Music Man, The Wizard of Oz, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Fiddler on the Roof (Eccles Sundance Theatre-SLC, UT); Eleemosynary (The Brooks- Sand Diego, CA); The King’s Men, Private Ear, Hedda Gabler, The Weird Play (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center-SLC, UT); Sweeney Todd, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Romeo & Juliet (Noorda Center for the Performing Arts-Orem, UT); This Bird of Dawning (Reagent Street Black Box-SLC, UT); The Bridge (Kingsbury Hall-SLC, UT); Bride of Frankenstein, Sonder, A Streetcar Named Desire (Found Spaces-SLC, UT). Jaron sits on the Intermountain Desert Region Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology, the association for performing arts and entertainment professionals, and is a nominee for its Rising Star Award. He has been a lecturer at Utah Valley University and had been Resident Designer and Technical Director at the Waterford School for many years.