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Lighting Designer, The Taming of the Shew
In two seasons at OSF: Lighting Designer, Into the Woods, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing. Marcella Barbeau is a New York City based lighting designer. Recent credits include Octet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), La Boheme (Portland Opera), Madama Butterfly, Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera San Antonio), The Threepenny Opera, Rigoletto, Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera Columbus), Carmen, Madama Butterfly (Austin Opera), La Traviata (Opera Omaha), Acis and Galatea, L’elisir D’amore (Florentine Opera), L’Amant Anonyme (Madison Opera), Murder on the Orient Express (Playmaker’s Repertory), Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre, world premiere), Cabaret, As One, The Threepenny Opera, The Threepenny Carmen, world premiere (The Atlanta Opera). Currently, she serves as the lighting designer for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. In 2015 she was the Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR Lighting Design Fellow. She received her Master of Fine Arts at Boston University and is a proud member of USA 829. As a Chinese-American lighting designer, Marcella actively seeks to collaborate with and amplify the voices of fellow BIPOC artists of all intersectionalities.