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Christopher Kuhl

lighting designer

About this Artist

CHRISTOPHER KUHL (lighting designer) is a lighting, scenic, and installation designer for new performance, theater, dance, and opera. Recent work includes Dog Days (Prototype Festival, Los Angeles Opera); The Object Lesson (BAM, Edinburgh Festival, Sydney Festival); The Source (REDCAT, BAM); The Institute of Memory (T:BA Festival, The Public Theater); Straight White Men (Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Kaai Theater, Centre Pompidou); The Elephant Room (St. Ann’s Warehouse); ABACUS (Early Morning Opera, BAM, Sundance Film Festival, EMPAC); Quartier Libres with Nadia Beugré (New York Live Arts, Walker Art Center); and Cipher with Samita Sinha (T:BA Festival, The Kitchen).

He has received two Ovation awards and Sherwood, Drammy, and Horton awards. He also received 2014 and 2015 Bessie awards. He is originally from New Mexico and a graduate of CalArts.