CAROLINA ORTIZ HERRERA is a Mexican-born and New York-based Lighting Designer for theater, dance and opera. Regional: All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); American Mariachi (Arizona Theater Company); Seven Guitars (Yale Repertory Theatre). Other theatre: Yellowman, nominated for Best Lighting Design at Audelco’s Awards (Billie Holiday Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Yale Dramat); Titus Andronicus, Some Bodies Travel, Women Beware Women, and The Skin of Our Teeth (Yale University Theatre). Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas (Shubert Theatre); The Silent Lyre (Lighten Theatre); Trouble in Tahiti (New Jersey University); and The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera Theatre of Yale). Carolina has also assisted notable lighting designers including Jennifer Tipton, Duane Schuler, Pablo Santiago, and Jiyoun Chang at institutions such as Broadway, the Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Symphony, The Public, BAM, NYT Workshop, LTC3 Lincoln Center, and the Atlantic Theatre Company. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. carolinaeortiz.com
