Illinois Theatre: Lighting Design and Technology

Illinois Theatre: Lighting Design and Technology Shared information from students and faculty of the Lighting Design & Technology Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Our favorite day of the year...time to celebrate our students on their graduation day! Trinity Nett, Jasmyn Oliveros, Ca...
05/17/2026

Our favorite day of the year...time to celebrate our students on their graduation day! Trinity Nett, Jasmyn Oliveros, Camron Stockley, and Maggie Hershey (SR to SL)...the class of 2026! Each one received their BFA in Theatre - Lighting Design & Technology today and the faculty - Nicole, David, Rob, Lisa, and Brant (SR to SL) - are proud to celebrate their combined achievements!!!

Congratulations to the Illinois Theatre Class of 2026!

Another amazing year!!
05/16/2026

Another amazing year!!

In our final Lighting Seminar class of the semester, we celebrated our graduating students…Trinity Nett, Maggie Hershey,...
05/07/2026

In our final Lighting Seminar class of the semester, we celebrated our graduating students…Trinity Nett, Maggie Hershey, Jasmyn Oliveros, and Camron Stockley…congratulations all!

Note: after this photo was taken the students found the arms to the mannequin, just in case you were wondering why…

Last month, the Department of Dance presented “April Senior Thesis Dance Concert” in our Studio Theatre here at Krannert...
05/06/2026

Last month, the Department of Dance presented “April Senior Thesis Dance Concert” in our Studio Theatre here at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

This production featured the choreography of seniors Harper Clark, Erin Fabian, Lily Freebery, Jasmine O'Connor, and Avi Pellegrinetti.

Celebrating Team Lighting, which included Laney Heggemeyer (sophomore) and Raziel Rogers (sophomore) as the co-lighting designers and lighting console programmers!

Kudos to ALL on three wonderful performances of Dance!

This past weekend, Illinois Theatre closed out our 2025-2026 season with “The City and the City" (based on the novel by ...
05/06/2026

This past weekend, Illinois Theatre closed out our 2025-2026 season with “The City and the City" (based on the novel by China Miéville, and adapted by Christopher Walshin) in our Colwell Playhouse with direction by Jordan Coughtry.

What a wonderful dramatic adventure!!

Celebrating Team Lighting, which included Robert Perry (faculty) as lighting designer, Cameron Strandin (second-year graduate student) as assistant lighting designer, Resa Fuller (second-year graduate student) as head electrician, and Lauren Merrifield (second-year graduate student) as the lighting console programmer/operator.

Kudos to ALL on a wonderful run in the Colwell Playhouse!

This month, Illinois Theatre presented “Radium Girls" by D. W. Gregory in our Studio Theatre with direction by José Manu...
04/25/2026

This month, Illinois Theatre presented “Radium Girls" by D. W. Gregory in our Studio Theatre with direction by José Manuel Díaz-Soto.

What a wonderful dramatic adventure!!

Celebrating Team Lighting, which included Maggie Hershey (junior) as lighting designer, Griffin Ferguson (first-year undergraduate student) as assistant lighting designer, Wesley Lu (sophomore) as head electrician, and AJ Turnell (junior) as the lighting console programmer/operator.

Kudos to ALL on a wonderful run in the Studio Theatre!

This month, Lyric Theatre @ Illinois presented “Little Women" in our Tryon Festival Theatre; with words and music by Mar...
04/24/2026

This month, Lyric Theatre @ Illinois presented “Little Women" in our Tryon Festival Theatre; with words and music by Mark Adamo, after the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Music direction by Casey Robards and stage direction by Dawn Harris.

Celebrating Team Lighting, which included Jasmyn Oliveros (senior) as lighting designer, Paige Vick (first-year graduate student) and Scott Krelle (first-year undergraduate student) as assistant lighting designers, Trinity Nett (senior) as head electrician, Mads Ren (senior) as the console programmer/operator, and Rue Zadik (first-year undergraduate student), and Charlotte Heads (Parkland Pathways student) as the follow spot operators!

Congratulations to all on this magnificent production!

Last month our students had the wonderful opportunity to spend time with Brad Schiller and the GLP Demo Event in our Stu...
04/09/2026

Last month our students had the wonderful opportunity to spend time with Brad Schiller and the GLP Demo Event in our Studio Theatre here at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts!

It was a wonderful day of demos, hands-on programming, and learning sessions about topics ranging from the quality of light to GDTF.

Our thanks to Brad Schiller and GLP for spending the day with our students!

I-L-L…I-N-I !!!Congratulations to Coach Brad Underwood and the entire team….heading to Indianapolis!!
03/29/2026

I-L-L…I-N-I !!!

Congratulations to Coach Brad Underwood and the entire team….heading to Indianapolis!!

03/27/2026

Lighting Design student Wesley Lu has been able to participate in 13 shows since starting at University of Illinois a year and a half ago. These opportunities to gain hands-on experience are available to students like Wesley because of donors like YOU.

Join us in celebrating World Theatre Day today by supporting Illinois Theatre students at go.illinois.edu/WorldTheatreDay.

Address

500 S. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL
61801

Telephone

+12173332371

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Illinois Theatre: Lighting Design and Technology posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The University

Send a message to Illinois Theatre: Lighting Design and Technology:

Shortcuts

Share