Abi Farnsworth is a lighting designer for musicals, theatre, dance, opera, film, and live entertainment.
Based in New York City, Abi is completing her MFA in Lighting Design for Stage and Film at NYU Tisch.
Abi Farnsworth’s professional portfolio includes design, production, and technical work in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Florida venues ranging from studio and black-box theatre to open-air stage and stadium.
About Abi Farnsworth
My passion is narrative lighting design for theatre works with music including plays, dance, opera, musicals, and live entertainment.
My experience as a sound designer, stage manager, video editor, head electrician, and sound engineer inform my lighting designs in both timing and story telling technique.
My designs have been seen live-streamed (The Last Five Years), in original work released to video (False Beginnings), in published article and cover (Michigan Muse), and live at Tipping Point Theatre, Timber Lake Playhouse, Interlochen’s Phoenix Theatre, Detroit’s Andy Arts Center, Arthur Miller Theatre, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, and the Power Center for the Performing Arts.
Directors I’ve designed lighting with include Gregory Keller, Ryan Dobrin, Devanand Janki, Cameron King, Tommy Ranieri, Jasmine Rivera, and Richard R. Henry.
Choreographers I’ve designed lighting for include Shannon Gillen, Charli Brissey, Kyunghwa Han, J’Sun Howard, and Imani Ma’at Taylor.
My Assistant Lighting Design contribution on the Orlando Ballet lighting design team under Joseph Walls has been mentioned in Light & Sound International (LSi) online and Live Design online.
I am excited to continue as Assistant Lighting Designer to Orlando Ballet’s remounting of their 50th Anniversary redesign of the Nutcracker while attending graduate school at NYU/Tisch in Lighting Design for Stage and Film.
