Mark McCullough is the original lighting designer for HGO’s 2025-26 production of Porgy and Bess. McCullough’s work has been seen at HGO in West Side Story (2025, 2018); The Sound of Music (2024); The Pearl Fishers (2019); Florencia en el Amazonas (2019); A Christmas Carol (2014); and Show Boat (2013). In the 2024-25 season, McCullough served as lighting designer for La traviata at Detroit Opera and Porgy and Bess at Washington National Opera. During the 2023-24 season his engagements included Aida and West Side Story with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Candide with Glimmerglass Festival, La traviata with Seattle Opera, West Side Story with Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Elektra with WNO, and Rebecca with Musical Vienna. He has also designed lighting for the Vienna State Opera (Macbeth); Bolshoi Theatre (La traviata); the Metropolitan Opera (The Marriage of Figaro); the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing (The Tales of Hoffmann); La Scala (Cyrano de Bergerac); Teatro Real (Luisa Miller); Opéra national du Rhin (The Beggar’s Opera); London’s Royal Ballet and Opera (The Queen of Spades); Opera North (Eugene Onegin); Ópera Nacional de Chile (Norma), and numerous other productions with WNO, Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Dallas Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Canadian Opera Company, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, and San Francisco Opera, including the Ring cycle directed by Francesca Zambello.