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Matthew J. Weisgable

@mjwlightingdesign

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Lighting Designer. New York, NY.
MFA: Carnegie Mellon University
BA: Marymount Manhattan College
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre @ssmtva Winchester, VA 2026 Director: Dionysia Williams @greekgoddessdionysia Choreographer: Brandon Kelly @thebrandonkelly Music Director: Anthony Smith Scenic Designer: Jack Golden @jcgoldini Lighting Designer: @mjwlightingdesign Costume Designer: Karsen Green @costumesbykarsen Wig Designer: Brandon Miller Sound Designer: Sam Silva @samsilvasound Photo Credit: C.King Media @ckingmedia Lighting Department Lighting Shop Manager: Terry Jorgensen Assistant Production Electrician: Diana Cooper @audiovideodiscoh Electricians: Sean Harris, Charles Hintz @princehintziii , Devon Worthy @devon._.worthy , Rhys Utterback @rhysutterback @lightingnerdz #ssmtva #lightingdesigner #beautifulthecarolekingmusical #summerstock #ledtapefordays taken in Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre by @mjwlightingdesign
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Fresh Tracks “New Works” 2026 Cristina Moya-Palacios @pmoyacristina “Without Breasts There Is No Paradise” Photo Credit: Maria Baranova Courtesy New York Live Arts Performed at @nylivearts Director/Choreographer: Cristina Moya-Palacios @pmoyacristina Sound Editing: Cristina Moya-Palacios @pmoyacristina Costumes: Raspaditos (Valentina Baché), Cristina Moya-Palacios Lighting Design: @mjwlightingdesign EOS Programming: @ryan.j.clark Choreographed by Cristina Moya-Palacios, Without Breasts There Is No Paradise is an ensemble dance theater work that examines the contributions of Latin Americans to the cultural fabric of the United States and beyond. During this time of increased visibility and dialogue surrounding the persecution and abduction of Latin American immigrants, there has been a constant bilateral reminder that Latines are only valued for their manual labor. Through a series of vignettes depicting various facets of iconic Latin American entertainment, this piece is a reclamation of the humanity and vibrancy within the community. Performers Valentina Baché, Kashia Kancey, Cristina Moya-Palacios and Kyle Scheurich lean deep into the absurd with a telenovela slapping duet, luchadores in love, a spiraling Miss Universo, and an El Chacal striptease number. The work both plays into and rejects stereotypes in a shiny, dramatic, and off-kilter physical theater extravaganza. #lightingdesign #newyorklivearts #dance #newwork #freshtracks taken in New York Live Arts by @mjwlightingdesign
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Fresh Tracks “New Works” 2026 Dahlia Qumhiyeh @dahliaqumhiyeh “AB+” Photo Credit: Maria Baranova Courtesy New York Live Arts Performed at @nylivearts Director/Choreographer: Dahlia Qumhiyeh @dahliaqumhiyeh Assistant Director & Writing: Bev Vega @bev.vega Styling: Joshua Leon Eguia Video: Bev Vega @bev.vega Lighting Design: @mjwlightingdesign EOS Programming: @ryan.j.clark Dahlia Qumhiyeh’s AB+ is a theatrical movement piece that explores the entanglement of the medical industrial complex using ropes, projection, and bandages. The piece explores gender affirming health care as an act of initiation into a web of insurance claims, hoops to jump, and occasional acts of violence. A live cast of six, and two performers projected on a screen, move through ropes, engage in a fight, and cut themselves free to reveal the damages that come from what could be healing. Featuring performances by Sarah Esser, Joshua Leon Eguia, Angad Kalsi, Christine Shepard, Dahlia Qumhiyeh, and Bev Vega, AB+ features a sonic landscape devised of triphop, electronic music, and live commentating by two medical insurance providers. #lightingdesigner #dance #freshtracks #newyorklivearts #newwork taken in New York Live Arts by @mjwlightingdesign
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The Wild Party Book: Andrew Lippa Music and Lyrics: Andrew Lippa Playhouse on Park @playhouseonpark Photo Credit: Meredith Longo @mereinanutshell Director: Sean Harris @willyshakes22 Choreography: Darlene Zoller @zollerdarlene Music Direction: Colin Britt @maestrobritt Set Design: Kim Zhou @kimx.zhou Costume Design: Micah Ohno @micahohnocostumes @ohno.its.micah Sound Design: Emilee Biles @emilee.party Props and Set Dressing: Kyla Madore Intimacy Director: Dr. Kathryn Moncrief Production Stage Manager: Rebecca Donaghy @rebecca.donaghy Assistant Stage Manager: Lindsay Forauer Production Manager: Erin Kiernan Technical Director: Katrina Paul Master Electrician: Stef Carr @stef.carr312 Wardrobe Manager: Arianna Polacheck Starring: Queenie: Mollie Downes Burrs: Trevor Bunce @thetrevorbunce Black: Cory Simmons: @coryofmylife Kate: Maddi Bowman @maddibowman Madeleine True: Kathleen Cameron @kathleengcameron Eddie: Caleb Barton Mae: Lily Bucko Phil: Elijah Martinez Oscar: Gavin Leahy Dolores: Julia Solecki @julia.solecki Jackie: Joseph Rafael Davila @jo_rd3 Sam: Kenneth Galm @kennethgalm Nadine: Sophia Cantin Reno: Kate Glennon #lightingdesigner #queeniewasablonde #thewildparty #playhouseonpark #theatre taken in Playhouse on Park Theatre by @mjwlightingdesign
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Unwritten Mordance @mordance Choreography: Morgan McEwen Performed at New York Live Arts @nylivearts Photo Credits: Sean Linehan: 1, 5, 7, 8 @seanlinehanphoto Erin Monteleone: 2-4, 6, 9, 10 @erinmonteleonephotography Unwritten is a new evening-length ballet by Morgan McEwen that explores the United States Constitution as a living document and asks whose voices have been included, excluded, and contested in the shaping of American democracy. Through physically driven ensemble work and a movement language that shifts between tension, rupture, and collective force, the piece examines the distance between the ideals embedded in the nation’s founding documents and the lived realities of the people governed by them. Rather than offering a fixed historical retelling, Unwritten approaches the Constitution as an evolving site of power, omission, and possibility. The ballet considers amendment not only as legal process, but as a metaphor for civic struggle, resistance, and the unfinished work of representation. In doing so, it invites audiences to reflect on the ways systems are built, protected, and challenged over time. Created in the lead-up to the 250th anniversary of the United States, Unwritten continues MorDance’s commitment to making ballet a space for contemporary dialogue and civic engagement. The work is designed to resonate both emotionally and intellectually, pairing artistic rigor with urgent social questions. Through this premiere, MorDance offers a performance experience that is both visually compelling and deeply relevant to the current national moment. #lightingdesigner #mordance #worldpremiere #dance #contemporaryballet taken in New York Live Arts by @mjwlightingdesign
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Happy opening to Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. With Beautiful being the last of three shows this summer the electrics team wanted a picture with both the LED tape and Lighting Designer. It’s been one hell of an adventure but our lighting team helped make it reach new levels. taken in Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre by @mjwlightingdesign
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Nine: The Musical Book By: Arthur Kopit Music and Lyrics By: Maury Yeston Ramapo College of NJ @ramapocollegenj Director & Choreographer: Lester Mayers: @mayerslester_ Music Direction: Sarah Brett England Scenic Design: Sarah Beth Hall @sarahbethall Costume Design: Austin Blake Conlee @austinblakeconlee Sound Design: Joe Austria Assitant Light Design: Zel Bollard @thegraypan Production Management & Technical Direction: Daniel Archibald Master Electrician: Alexandra Polan-Clarke @alliepc Stage Manager: Jessica Howley Photo Credits: Sarah Beth Hall @sarahbethall 1, 5-11 Nitin Shukla: 2-4 #lightingdesign #myhusbandmakesmovies #ninethemusical #ramapocollegeofnewjersey #adjunctprofessor taken in Ramapo College of New Jersey by @mjwlightingdesign
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Fresh Tracks “New Works” 2026 Ariel Lembeck @ariel_lembeck “again and again” Photo Credit: Maria Baranova Courtesy New York Live Arts Performed at @nylivearts Director/Choreographer: Ariel Lembeck @ariel_lembeck Sound Design: Ryan Gamblin @sound.by.ryan Costume Consultation: Karen Boyer Lighting Design: @mjwlightingdesign EOS Programming: @ryan.j.clark again and again is a continuation of Lembeck’s research on the identity and participation of the worker inside the capitalistic obsession with productivity, materiality and exploitation. Syncopated rhythms, overstretched gestures and intricate patterns bring Marin Day, Emma Judkins, Dasol Kim and Ariel Lembeck into solo tangents, tangled tableaus and cooperative action. again and again is an interrogation on labor that straddles the line between compulsory and existential. It is a dance that asks us to consider our collectivity inside the systems that try to keep us apart. #lightingdesign #newwork #newyorklivearts #dance #freshtracks taken in New York Live Arts by @mjwlightingdesign
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Fresh Tracks “New Works” 2026 Sacha Vega @sachachavega “SWELL” Photo Credit: Maria Baranova Courtesy New York Live Arts Performed at @nylivearts Director/Choreographer: Sacha Vega @sachachavega Performer: Rose Luardo @roseluardo Original & Live Sound: James Gentile @jamesgentile Costumes: Liv Chiaravalli Props: Ollie Goss Lighting Design: @mjwlightingdesign EOS Programming: @ryan.j.clark How did we learn to perform power? In SWELL, multidisciplinary choreographer Sacha Vega and surreal comedic performer Rose Luardo take on the slippery logic of power through a shared hallucinatory solo. Power suit. Power play. Power ballad. Power trip. Power pose. Together, Vega and Luardo devise an experimental dance that slips between satire and sincerity, hustling through impressions of American™ ambition, humiliation, and autonomy, all channeled through the body of a woman enigmatically unmoored by linear time. From their process trickles up a disruptive, humorous piece, layering physical comedy, 80s grandeur, nicotine nostalgia, and overinflated ideologies. #lightingdesigner #newyorklivearts #dance #art #newwork taken in New York Live Arts by @mjwlightingdesign
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Fresh Tracks “New Works” 2026 Dorchel Haqq @dorchelhaqq “vol.1/dnd/a study on perspective” Photo Credit: Maria Baranova Courtesy New York Live Arts Performed at @nylivearts Director/Choreographer: Dorchel Haqq @dorchelhaqq Original Soundscore: Joy Guidry Garments: Malcolm X Betts Styling: Dorchel Haqq @dorchelhaqq Lighting Design: @mjwlightingdesign EOS Programming: @ryan.j.clark With access to unlimited channels of information, when do you pause? Does everyone have ADHD? Where does our food come from? What is our daily level of consumption? Who are you? Why are you here? When are you free? How do you show up? DO NOT DISTURB vol.1/DND/ a study on perspective features performers who confront human awareness and identity in an overstimulated world. ‘DND’- do not disturb mode warrants agency over one’s autonomy. A reflection on consciousness, consumption, attention, and evolution of humanity, vol.1/DND/ a study on perspective is performed by Dorchel Haqq, Christine Shepard, Syaera Valentine, & Channce Williams to an original soundscore by Joy Guidry. #lightingdesigner #newyorklivearts #dance #downtownnyc #newworksdance taken in New York Live Arts by @mjwlightingdesign
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The Mountaintop By, Katori Hall Playhouse on Park @playhouseonpark Winter 2026 Director: Jamil A.C. Mangan @actwithjamil Set Design: Patti Panyakaew @pattidaor Projection Design: Christian Killada @cnwk122 Costume Design: Vilinda McGregor Sound Design: Carter Mangan Jr. @producedbyroc Props and Set Dressing: Judi Mande Production Management: Erin Kiernan PSM: Rebecca Donaghy ASM: Thomas Bergamo Technical Supervisor: Katrina Paul Sound Engineer: Eyan Gormly Master Electrician: Stef Carr Starring - Torrey Linder @torreyl333 and Jasmine Shanise @jshanise 📸: 1-5, 7-8 Meredith Longo 📸: 6 Christian Killada #lightingdesign #playhouseonpark #theatre #themountaintop #fbf taken in Playhouse on Park Theatre by @mjwlightingdesign
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Book and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Spring 2024 Director: Brian B. Crowe @upstartccccrowe Choreographer: Jeffery Marc Alkins @jeffrey_marc Music Director: Doug Oberhamer Scenic Design: Dick Block Costume Design: Austin Blake Conlee @austinblakeconlee Sound Design: Steve Beckel PSM: Carolyn Fast Photo Credit: Avery Brunkus #lightingdesigner #agentlemansguidetoloveandmurder #theshakespearetheatreofnj #throwbackthursday #youreadysquith taken in Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey by @mjwlightingdesign
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