ARTIST AVATAR
Lighting Designer
Mark McCullough
United States

About

Biography

Mark McCullough’s work has been seen at HGO in The Pearl Fishers (2019), Florencia en el Amazonas (2019), West Side Story (2018), A Christmas Carol (2014), and Show Boat (2013). During the 2023-24 season his engagements include 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 Washington National Opera, 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); the Royal Opera, Covent Garden (The Queen of Spades); Opera North (Eugene Onegin); Ópera Nacional de Chile (Norma), and numerous productions with Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National 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. His successes in theater include the Broadway productions of Outside Mullingar, Jesus Christ Superstar (revival), After Ms. Julie, and The American Plan. International theater credits include Whistle Down the Wind (London); Der Besuch Der Alten Dame (Vienna); Artus (St. Gallen, Switzerland); Rebecca (St. Gallen and Stuttgart); and the U.K. tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.

repertoire

Lighting Designer:

SHOW BOAT 2012-13

A CHRISTMAS CAROL 2013-14 (World premiere)

WEST SIDE STORY 2017-18

FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS 2018-19

THE PEARL FISHERS 2018-19

DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES 2021-22