Tyler
has designed the lighting for over 250 live productions including
plays, dance, movement-theatre, multi-media performance, and puppetry.
He is the recipient of an Off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Award, a Village
Voice OBIE, the Connecticut Critics Circle award, three Barrymore
nominations, an American Theatre Wing Hewes award nomination, the
National Endowment for the Arts / Theatre
Communications Group Career Development Program and holds a Bachelor of
Arts from Bowdoin College.
Off-Broadway design credits include Telephone (Foundry Theatre); Sixty Miles To Silver Lake, Blasted (Soho Rep); God’s Ear (Vineyard Theatre and New Georges), The Screwtape Letters (Theater at St. Clements, National Tour); A Very Common Procedure (MCC); Gutenberg! The Musical! (59E59, American Playhouse); Disfarmer, Hell House, Hiroshima Maiden (St. Ann’s Warehouse); The God Committee (Lamb's Theatre); Basic Training, Orson's Shadow, Eat The Taste, Bug (Barrow Street Theater); Ladies of the Corridor, Counsellor-At-Law (Peccadillo); Carnival Knowledge, Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse); The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Night Heron, Dublin Carol, Mojo (Atlantic Theater); Refuge (Playwrights Horizons).
Regional designs for American Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, The Old Globe, Trinity
Rep, Wilma Theater, Delaware Theater Company, Prince Music
Theater, Pig Iron, Chautauqua Theater Company, Hangar Theatre, Syracuse
Stage, Portland Center Stage, Madison Rep, Shakespeare Theatre,
Cornerstone
Theater and Long Wharf Theater.
International design credits include Dan Hurlin's Everyday Uses for Sight Nos. 3 & 7 (Australia, England); 78th Street Theatre Lab's The Man In The Flying Lawnchair (Scotland); WaxFactory's Lulu (France, Portugal, Italy, Croatia).
Fine art installation projects include Åhus Sommaren 1974 (Bellwether Galleries, Chelsea NYC), Beneath the Floorboards (Ohio Theater Gallery, Soho NYC).
For six years Tyler was adjunct faculty in the Sarah Lawrence
College Department of Dance, and has been a frequent visiting artist at
Dartmouth College and Yale University.