KAYLEIGHA ZAWACKI LIGHTING DESIGN RESUME

RELATED POSITIONS:

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre – Worcester State University (2024-Present)
• Technical Director and Adjunct Faculty – Worcester State University (2024)
• Lighting and Scenic Designer and Technical Director – Boston University Academy (2011-Present)
• Event Lighting Project Manager and Designer – Event Illuminations (2015-2023)
• Lighting Director and Designer – American College Dance Festival Association New England Regional Conferences (2014 and 2018)
• Lighting Director and Designer – Boston Theatre Marathon XVII, producted by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (2015)
• Lighting Director and Designer – New Repertory Theatre Next Rep Festival (2015)

LIGHTING & THEATRE DESIGN SELECTED WORKS (*indicates a new play):

2026

• The Baltimore Waltz (Light Design), Jennifer Cleary, Director – Brandeis University
• Radium Girls (Light and Set Design), William Gardiner, Director – Boston University Academy

2025

• Macbeth (Light Design), Kim Carrell, Director – Worcester State University
• The Rocky Horror Show (Light Design), Aiden Bourdeau, Director – Worcester State University
• Eurydice (Light Design), Dori Robinson, Director – Brandeis University
• The Frogs (Light, Projection, and Set Design), William Gardiner, Director – Boston University Academy

2024

• Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Set Design), Adam Zahler, Director – Worcester State University
• Theory of Relativity (Light and Set Design), William Gardiner, Director – Boston University Academy

2023

• Clean Slate (Light and Set Design), William Gardiner, Director – Boston University Academy
• Pride & Prejudice (Light and Set Design), William Gardiner, Director – Boston University Academy
• Tuck Everlasting (Light Design), Jack Eagan and Ruby Metcalf, Directors – Newton North High School

2022

• Boston Tea Party Reenactment at Old South Meeting House (Light Design), Gina Jamieson, Director – Revolutionary Spaces
• *Representation and How to Get It (Light Design), Judy Braha, Director – Revolutionary Spaces
• As You Like It (Light & Set Design), William Gardiner, Director – Boston University Academy

2020

• *BEASTS (Light Design Concept), Kelly Gavin, Director – Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
• Little Women (Light Design), Nichola Vargas, Director – Wheelock Family Theater

2019

• Silent Sky (Light Design), Kathleen Sills, Director – Merrimack College
• The Moors (Light Design), Kathleen Sills, Director – Merrimack College
• As One (Light Design), Jim Petosa, Director – Opera Institute at Boston University

2018

• It’s a Wonderful Life (Light Design), Tonasia Jones and Tyler Rosati, Directors – Greater Boston Stage Company
• My Fair Lady (Light Design), Myriam Cyr, Director – Stage 284