Acting Director of Production
Resident Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer, Macbeth
Michael K. Maag designs lighting and projections for theatre, dance, musicals, and opera. He sculpts with light and shadow to create lighting environments that tell a story, believing that lighting in support of the performance is the key to unlocking our audience’s emotions. He has built custom optics for projections in theatres, museums, and planetariums, and designs and builds electronics and lighting for costumes and scenery. As a paraplegic, Michael is passionate about bringing the perspective of the disabled artist to technical theatre. Michael is a founding member of Kinetic Light—an internationally recognized disability arts ensemble. His designs and creations have been seen on OSF’s stages for the last 25 years, as well as at Arena Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, EMPAC, MCA-Chicago, The SHED, MAANC, and many other places. Michael is honored to be serving OSF’s bright future as the Acting Director of Production.