Daniel H. Jentzen is a lighting designer, production designer, programmer, cinematographer, photographer, and teacher. He has created lighting and/or stage designs for over 600 plays, musicals, concerts, and special events including Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Hawking, LL Cool J, Alison Krauss, Aziz Ansari, Conan O’Brien, En Vogue, Chaka Khan, Anaïs Mitchell, Dierks Bentley, Eden Espinosa, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O’Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Huntington Theatre Company, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, Vice Media, Google, and Disney.
He specializes in designing live shows that incorporate several different art forms or genres, and in hybrid live+broadcast events that look great to a live audience while being correctly lit for multi-camera shoots. He designs in Vectorwork and Unreal and programs ETC Eos and GrandMA control systems.
Dan teaches lighting design at the Boston Arts Academy, the city’s public arts high school. He ran the 2025 Boston Marathon to raise money for the school. He’s a teaching artist with Boston Lyric Opera and also founded Brighter Boston, a nonprofit organization that gives teenagers paid internships backstage on professional shows. He’s currently writing a book on education and doing research on multisensory perception, exploring the unique power of the arts in the human mind.
Dan holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon and an Ed.M. in Educational Neuroscience from Harvard University. He’s an avid hiker, rock climber, snowboarder, and dad.