Artist

Marcella Barbeau

PlayMakers: Murder on the Orient Express.

Marcella Barbeau (she/her) is a New York City based lighting designer. Recent credits include Here Lies Love (Center Theater Group), La Boheme (Portland Opera), Der Silbersee (Chicago Opera Theater), The Heart Sellers (Cincinnati Playhouse), Octet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Into the Woods, Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Madama Butterfly, Maria de Buenos Aires  (Opera San Antonio), La traviata, The Threepenny Opera, Rigoletto, Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera Columbus), Carmen, Madama Butterfly (Austin Opera),  La Traviata (Opera Omaha), L’Amant Anonyme (Madison Opera), Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre, world premiere). Currently, she serves as the lighting designer for Santa Cruz Shakespeare.

Upcoming: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Opera Parallele), Shrek the musical, The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). 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. 

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