Jason has been a resident designer and member of VORTEX Repertory Company since 1994. During his career, he has designed internationally with local and regional artists, such as the Jose Greco II Flamenco Dance Company. Amato is also the Resident Lighting Designer for Zachary Scott Theatre, Blue Lapis Light Dance, and Tapestry Dance Company.

Jason has designed over 500 shows and received numerous awards for his designs including B. Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table Awards for lighting VORTEX's Trickster, The Deluge, Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio, and The X&Y Trilogy.

"...his designs are like being trapped in a stained-glass box. When you simply can't take the richness of it all, he hits you with a white shaft of intensity that is carefully timed to brilliantly underscore the most important bit of play."

More on Jason and his work can be found at www.jasonamato.com

Appearances at the VORTEX

• Dragonfly Queen
• Oceana
• Troades
• Dragonfly Princess
• Beirut
• Trickster
• Ring Rip Rent
• Hamlet
• Bell(e)
• hOle
• St. Enid and the Black Hand*
• Ghost from a Perfect Place*
• Vampyress
• Pythia Dust
• Sleeping Beauty*
• Dark Goddess (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006)
• Black Tower
• Holy Well and Sacred Flame
• The 13 Circles
• Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio*
• The Deluge:On the Shoulder of Night*
• Medea
• Early Morning
• X&Y Trilogy
  (Triskelion*, Panoptikon*, and The Black Blood)
• Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities*
• Elytra
• The Scarlet Letter
• Conference of the Birds
• The Bridge Burner
• Fur (set and lights)*
• The Pitchfork Disney (set and lights)
• Beruit (1994)
• Norm L
• The Bridgeburner
• Dirty Money