Dan Kelley (sometimes credited as Dan Kelly) is a lighting designer/director who has served as such on Sesame Street and related productions since 1996. Kelley won a Daytime Emmy Award for his work on the show in 2004, among multiple nominations for such since 2000.
Kelley is a senior lighting designer for the Lighting Design Group (formerly Berner & Brill Lighting Design, co-founded by fellow Sesame lighting designer Bill Berner), which Kelley joined in 1991. Kelley has also lit Nickelodeon GUTS, A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus, and HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. He is a lead designer at Bloomberg TV's facilities, and has traveled all over the world to light NBC's Olympics studio coverage since 1992.
Credits
- Muppet Sing Alongs: It's Not Easy Being Green: Lighting
- Sesame Street: Lighting designer (since season 28)
- Elmo Saves Christmas: Lighting designer
- Telling the Truth: Lighting designer
- A is for Asthma: Lighting director
- Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf: Lighting director
- Kids' Favorite Songs 2: Lighting designer
- Music Works Wonders: Lighting director
- A Celebration of Me, Grover: Lighting designer
- When Parents Are Deployed: Lighting designer
- Kids' Favorite Country Songs: Lighting designer
- Elmo's Christmas Countdown: Additional lighting
- Count on Sports: Lighting designer
- Dinosaurs!: Lighting designer
- Love the Earth!: Lighting designer
- Bedtime with Elmo: Lighting designer
- Being Green: Lighting designer
- Elmo and Abby's Birthday Fun!: Lighting designer
- Elmo Loves You: Lighting designer
- Coming Home: Lighting designer
- When Families Grieve: Lighting designer
- The Best of Elmo 2: Lighting designer
- ABCs with Elmo: Lighting designer
- Counting with Elmo: Lighting designer
- Elmo's Travel Songs and Games: Lighting designer
- Growing Hope Against Hunger: Lighting designer
- Elmo's Alphabet Challenge: Lighting designer
- Making Friends: Lighting designer
- When You Wish Upon a Pickle: Lighting designer
- Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas: Lighting designer
- The Magical Wand Chase: Lighting designer
- Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration: Lighting designer
- The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Lighting designer