Andrew Carson

Andrew Carson is a nationally recognized award-winning lighting designer. He has designed in theatres throughout the United States. He has won the Suzi Bass Award for best lighting design of a play and the regional BroadwayWorld Award for best professional technical (lighting) design in Atlanta. He was the lighting designer for the world premiere of the Grammy award-winning choral group, Conspirare’s Considering Matthew Shepard to be presented on PBS and was the lighting designer for the Savannah Music Festival. Notable designs for the regional theatre include A Streetcar Named Desire, Moon Over Buffalo, Spitfire Grill, Ghost the Musical, Rock of Ages, the regional professional premiere of American Idiot, Pippin, A Chorus Line, the professional regional premiere of Ordinary Days, Mary Poppins, and his multiple award winning production of Shipwrecked!: An Entertainment at the lauded Serenbe Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia. Opera designs include The Marriage of Figaro, as well as the upcoming Opera America Competition.

Andrew is on the faculty of Shenandoah University as Professor and Head of Lighting Design. Andrew went to graduate school at the University of Texas with a full Presidential Preemptive recruitment fellowship and earned his terminal Master of Fine Arts degree in theatrical design–lighting design. While in graduate school, Andrew received a substantial grant to present in the 2015 Prague Quadrennial (in Prague Czech Republic) in a performance “Horns.” During his time at PQ, he attended many symposia on theatrical design and technology, as well as international practices in pedagogy for theatrical design.