CAROLINA ORTIZ HERRERA

Lighting Design

Born and raised in Mexico City, Carolina Ortiz Herrera is a NY based Lighting Designer whose passion for theatre, opera, and dance enhances the collectiveness and immediacy of the theatrical experience – one that guides the audience to a new, complex understanding of the human experience.

Recent credits include:
Regional: All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); American Mariachi (Arizona Theater Company) Seven Guitars (Yale Repertory 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).
Other theatre: Yellowman, nominated for Best Lighting Design at Audelco’s Awards (Billie Holiday Theatre); She Persisted (Atlantic Theatre Company); Sweeney Todd (Yale Dramat); Titus Andronicus, Some Bodies Travel, Women Beware Women, and The Skin of Our Teeth (Yale University Theatre).

She is an organizing member of La Gente Network, and a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama.