Biography

Sarah Riffle is making her HGO debut. Riffle is currently a full-time assistant lighting designer with Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she has worked on productions including The Three Queens and The Elixir of Love. She had a five-year tenure as lighting designer for Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, where she designed lighting for productions of The Little Shop of Horrors, Alice in Wonderland, The Nutcracker, Les Misérables, Cinderella, Emma, Seussical, and more. Additional credits include work with companies including BalletMet Columbus on Innovations, Chicago Opera Theater on La Hija de Rappaccini, Arizona Opera and Glimmerglass Opera on The Sound of Music, Opera San José on West Side Story, Des Moines Metro Opera on La bohème, Opera Orlando on Carmen, and Louisiana State University Opera on Sweeney Todd, An Italian in Algiers, and The Rake’s Progress.