During HGO’s 2024-25 season, Mark McCullough serves as lighting designer for West Side Story. McCullough’s work has been seen at HGO in The Sound of Music (2024), The Pearl Fishers (2019), Florencia and the Amazons (2019), this production of West Side Story (2018), A Christmas Carol (2014), and Show Boat (2013). 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 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); Teatro alla 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 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.