In Memoriam: Pat CollinsLighting&Sound America has learned of the death, last weekend, of the noted lighting designer Pat Collins. As of today, information about her death and personal details have not been made available, but over the course of a four-decade career, her work was much admired. Her breakthrough production was a revival of The Threepenny Opera, directed by Richard Foreman, which started at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park and transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center. A year later she lit the smash hit musical Ain't Misbehavin', which began at Manhattan Theatre Club and also transferred to Broadway. Other notable Broadway productions included Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb (1981), the legendary flop Moose Murders (1983), the musical Baby (1984), I'm Not Rappaport (1985), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Conversations with My Father (1992), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993), A Delicate Balance (1994), Proof (2000), Doubt (2005), and Good People (2011). Her Off Broadway credits included David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre (1977), How I Got That Story (1982), Quartermaine's Terms (1983), Woman in Mind (1988), Burn This (2002), Stuff Happens (2006), and Fulfillment Center (2017). Her work in regional theatre took her to Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, McCarter Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, and Ford's Theatre, among others. She also designed for Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Paris Opera, Bayerisches Staatsoper (Munich), and among others. No information about survivors has been made available. 
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