Michael Lincoln
Associate Professor of Lighting Design
Visit www.michaellincoln.net for online portfolio and resume.

Michael’s professional career numbers well over 200 productions in theatre, opera and dance. He has designed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally for more than 25 years. Highlights: the Broadway and national tours of Copenhagen, the Playwrights Horizons production of The Bubbly Black Girl… and the Cleveland Playhouse production of A Streetcar Named Desire, (selected to be part of the U.S. exhibit at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial).  

Michael’s extensive regional credits include long associations with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre and the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC.  He has consulted on renovations for both Indiana Rep and Studio, where he designed lighting systems for two new theatres and all support spaces in the three building complex. Selected other companies: Bay Street, Ford's Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, George Street, Goodspeed Musicals, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Paper Mill Playhouse, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and the Venice Biennale. 

Michael had multi-year associations with Los Angeles Ballet, Tulsa Ballet and Santa Fe Opera, as well as designs for many regional opera companies. His multiple Broadway credits as an Associate Designer include hit revivals of Guys and Dolls and Anything Goes and original productions of City of Angels, Six Degrees of Separation and Lend Me a Tenor.

Michael taught for fourteen years at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Southern California.  Awards: L.A. Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Logue, Corbin Patrick and USITT Ezekial, Phi Beta Kappa.