Elizabeth Mak

Lighting & Multimedia Design

Elizabeth Mak is a Singapore-born NYC-based interdisciplinary lighting and multimedia designer. Her practice as an artist is rooted in using various forms of visual storytelling to create immersive and experiential works that address issues of social justice. She believes in art and design as a path towards societal change. Her selected live performance credits are as follows. Regional designs include Miss You Like Hell (Baltimore Center Stage); Tiny Houses (Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); The Bridges of Madison County (Philadelphia Theatre Company); The Phantom Tollbooth (Weston Playhouse); Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater); The Square Root of Three Sisters (International Festival of Arts and Ideas). New York City designs include The Tricky Part, A Walk in the Woods (The Barrow Group), They, Themself and Schmerm (Public Theater UTR Festival INCOMING!); Danger Signals (New Ohio Theatre ICE Factory); Antigonick, Macbeth (Fordham University); Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana… (HERE Arts); False Stars (Paradise Factory Corkscrew Festival); Verano Verano (IATI, Latin ACE Award recipient & Premios ATI nominee); You Wouldn’t Expect (American Bard Theater). International designs include Nanyang: The Musical (Singapore International Festival of Arts), Salomé: Woman of Valor (Vancouver Chutzpah Festival, Ashkenaz Toronto Festival), B O X (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). She is a resident designer with Albany Park Theater Project in Chicago, a graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Drama, and a member of IATSE Local USA 829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design.