Daniel Ordower has designed award winning lighting for theater, dance, opera, installations, trade shows and special events throughout North America and Europe.

His opera designs include work for LA Opera, Connecticut Opera and three seasons with Baltimore Opera. Internationally, he has realized designs at Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Lyon and Festpielhaus Baden-Baden. In New York, he designed dance productions for MOMIX, Billy Siegenfeld's Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and Calvin Wiley Dance Theater.

He has worked at some of the pre-eminent regional theaters in the US including San Jose Rep, Geva Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Coconut Grove Playhouse, American Stage Co, Actors' Express and Writers' Theater Chicago. Nationally, he has designed the lighting for the Boston, Reno, San Diego and national tour companies of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and tour companies of West Side Story and Beauty and the Beast.

Festival and installation designs include MAKOR II at Pace-Wildenstein Gallery for Michal Rovner, The Tribeca Film Festival, New York Musical Festival, The New York Fringe Festival and the Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS Gypsy of the Year and Nothing Like a Dame benefits. Some of his most notable corporate clients include the Walt Disney Companies, Stella McCartney, Maxim, Sean John, Kohler, Project ALS, the Stonewall Foundation, the Audubon Society, Clinique, Henri Bendel, the Waldorf-Astoria, Cunning Stunts, Verizon and Vitamin Water.

He has received two Portland Drammy Awards for Best Lighting, the 2005 NY Innovative Theater Award for Best Lighting and an OOBR award for Best Production. He has recently published an article on politics and theater for Social Policy magazine.

He has been a guest designer and lecturer at Northwestern University, SUNY Purchase, and Columbia College in Chicago. A native of St. Louis, he is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 of IATSE and a graduate of Northwestern University.