Traci

For an acclaimed production of Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues' THE ASPHALT KISS, lighting designer Traci Klainer conjured a distinctively noirish vision of Rio de Janeiro in a black box space at 59E59 Theater in New York.

Rodrigues' play proves that no good deed goes unpunished, and in tandem with set designer Lauren Helpern she caught its protagonist in a downward spiral. ETC Source Fours and Altman R40 striplights were the basic building blocks. "We had a very limited budget and inventory with which to create this space and move to the play's many different locations," says Klainer, who received a Drama Desk nomination for the show.