What is the role of the lighting designer?
The most basic job of the lighting designer is to illuminate the action on the stage so the audience can actually see what’s happening. And then beyond that, it’s about helping tell the story, either by focusing on certain people on the stage, or giving an atmosphere or a mood, suggesting a time of day, reacting to the music… You work with the director and the set designer to create visual stage pictures, which hopefully enhance the storytelling and the audience’s connection to it.
