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Lighting Designer, Much Ado About Nothing

Marcella Barbeau is a New York City–based lighting designer. Recent credits include Carmen (Austin Opera), La Traviata (Opera Omaha), L’elisir D’amore (Florentine Opera), How I Learned to Drive (Actor’s Shakespeare Project), L’Amant Anonyme (Madison Opera), Murder on the Orient Express (Playmaker’s Repertory), Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre, world premiere), The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear,The Book of Will (Santa Cruz Shakespeare), Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera San Antonio, Opera Columbus), Rigoletto (Opera Columbus), Cabaret, As One, The Threepenny Opera, The Threepenny Carmen (world premiere, The Atlanta Opera), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Village Theatre). Currently she serves as the lighting designer for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. She received her Master of Fine Arts at Boston University. As a Chinese-American lighting designer, Marcella actively seeks to collaborate with and amplify the voices of fellow BIPOC artists of all intersectionalities.