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Laurel Shoemaker | scenic and lighting designer

     Laurel works in the performing arts as a lighting/scenery designer and theater artist. Currently residing in Lincoln, Nebraska, she is a freelance designer and Assistant Professor in Theatre Lighting for the University of Nebraska. Credits include productions with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street 2, The Chicago Dancing Festival, The Joyce Soho (with Charlotte Adams) and the University of Iowa and the University of Nebraska.

     Specific design credits include: Flipside, The Patti Page Story - Lighting (Off Broadway at the 59 East 59th Street Theatre,) Opera Outdoors – Lighting (outdoor kickoff concert for Opera Omaha,) The Marriage of Figaro -Lighting (produced by the Martha Ellen Tye Opera Theatre at UIOWA and winner of the 2002 National Opera Association Award for Best Production,) Dead Man Walking - Scenery (winner of the 2008 National Opera Association Award for Best Production,) Street Scene – Scenery (winner of the 2001 National Opera Association Award for Best Production,) Cosi Fan Tutte – Lighting (winner of the 1998 National Opera Association Award for Best Production,) and The Most Happy Fella, (winner of Best Set at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera ’07,) all produced by the University of Nebraska/Lincoln.


MFA – Florida State University, Lighting Design
BFA – University of Nebraska, Theatrical Design
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