Bio:
Mary Ellen Stebbins (Lighting Design) is a New York City–based lighting designer whose work spans theater, dance, opera, and music. Her collaborations include Little Island, MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Long Wharf Theater, Opera Philadelphia, Juilliard, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Opera, as well as artists and creators such as Theresa Rebeck, CYI Studio, and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*.) Mary Ellen is a 2020 Bessie Award Honoree for her work on Monica Bill Barnes’s Days Go By and received a Henry Hewes Award nomination for her lighting design for Clare Barron’s I’ll Never Love Again. Additional honors include the Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize, Live Design’s Young Designer to Watch, the USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award, and a Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellowship. Mary Ellen holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from Boston University. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and former faculty at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. www.maryellenstebbinsdesign.com