Mark McCullough (lighting designer)
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Mark McCullough is an American lighting designer. He is an alumnus of the North Carolina School of the Arts and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama.
Career
While specializing in opera lighting, McCullough also designed in other areas. Broadway productions include After Miss Julie, The American Plan, and Jesus Christ Superstar (revival, Broadway and U.K. tour). His creations have also been seen Off-Broadway and in regional theater companies worldwide: Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych Theatre, London); Webster's The White Devil and Schiller's Don Carlos (Royal Shakespeare Company); Wendy Wasserstein’s Old Money at Lincoln Center Theatre; How I Learned to Drive and The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel.{{cite web |title=Internet Broadway Database |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/mark-mccullough-76158}} McCullough's work in regional theater has been seen at the La Jolla Playhouse; Mark Taper Forum; Hartford Stage; Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Center Stage (Atlanta), among others.{{cite web |title=Mark McCullough Artist Bio at Bolshoi Theatre |url=https://www.bolshoirussia.com/company/personnel/light/Mark_McCullough/}}
In 2006 McCullough was awarded the Joseph Jefferson Award for Lighting Design for Man of La Mancha, directed by Charles Newell, set design by John Culbert, produced at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web |title=IMDB |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567217/}}
Opera
- Washington National Opera (Debut with Fidelio (2003) and returned for Die Walküre (2003 and 2007), Porgy and Bess (2005 and 2010), Das Rheingold (2006), Rigoletto (2008), Siegfried (2009), Salome (2010), Hamlet (2010), Don Pasquale (2011), Nabucco (2012), Anna Bolena (2012), and Show Boat (2013).{{cite web| title=Mark McCullough Artist Bio at Washington National Opera |url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/m/ma-mn/mark-mccullough/}}
- The Metropolitan Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Los Angeles Opera (Porgy and Bess (2007), Lohengrin (2010), Rigoletto (2010), Florencia en el Amazonas (2014), Nabucco (2017), Candide (2018), and Aida (2022)){{cite web| title=Mark McCullough Artist Bio at Los Angeles Opera |url=https://www.laopera.org/discover-la-opera/about-us/artists/creative-team/mark-mccullough}}
- Boston Lyric Opera (Aida, Madama Butterfly, Tosca)
- The Dallas Opera (Show Boat, the world premiere of Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin)
- New York City Opera (Il viaggio a Reims)
- Glimmerglass Opera
- Seattle Opera
- Florida Grand Opera
- Virginia Opera
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- Teatro alla Scala
- Teatro Real in Madrid
- Royal Opera House (Queen of Spades)
- Opera national du Rhin (The Beggar’s Opera by Benjamin Britten)
- Opera North (Eugene Onegin)
- Opera de Montreal
- Opera Theatre of St. Louis
- San Diego Opera
- Bard College (The Nose)
- San Francisco Opera (Rigoletto, Arshak II, The Mother of Us All, as well as the full Ring Cycle directed by Francesca Zambello)