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Lighting Designer

Emma Deane (she/her) is an Indigenous lighting designer based out of New York. Current role with WAM: Kamloopa Lighting Designer. WAM Theatre:  Debut Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theater); YELL: A “DOCUMENTARY” OF MY TIME HERE, Reykjavík, Trouble in Mind, shakespeare’s as u like it and Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama); Little Boy/Little Man, Burn Book, The Light Fantastic, This Sweet Affliction, Mud, The Guadalupes, WOLF/ALICE and Camille: A Tearjerker (Yale Cabaret); The Winters Tale (Shakespeare Academy at Stratford). Prior Chicago design credits include The Adventures of Robin Hood, Pinocchio: A Folk Musical & Fog Island (Filament Theatre); Proof, As You Like It (North Park University); The Amish Project, Still (Interrobang Theatre Project); Hitler on the Roof, Hand in Hand & Nothing of Me (Akvavit Theatre); Scarcity, The Seedbed (Redtwist Theatre); The Woman in Black (Wildclaw); Fight City (The Factory); Buddy Cop 2 (Pavement Group); and associate lighting design on The Nutcracker (The House Theater). Additional credits include work with: The Fisher Center at Bard, Court Theatre, The Goodman, Albany Park Theater Project, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Northlight Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Victory Gardens, The Actors Gymnasium, and The Gannon Center for Women and Leadership. Selected training: MFA – Yale School of Drama Connect: emmadeane.com instagram – emma.e.deane