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Abigail Hoke-Brady is a New York based lighting designer whose work centers primarily in opera and classical music. As a designer she is interested in the ways light functions as a visual score to the work onstage.

Some of her most valued design projects include ‘Pagliacci’ (Seattle Opera); ‘Roméo et Juliette’ (Central City Opera);  ‘The Night Falls’ (Peak Performances/BalletCollective); ‘Cosí fan Tutte’ (San Diego Opera); ‘How I Learned What I Learned’ (Playmakers Repertory Company); ‘Portrait and a Dream’ (Contemporaneous); ‘Time:Spans Festival’ (Dimenna Center/Earle Brown Music Foundation - co-designer alongside Burke Brown); and scenic and lighting design for ‘BUST’ (Soho Repertory Theater Writer/Director Lab).

Exciting upcoming projects include ‘The Wolves’ with Playmakers Repertory Company and returning to Central City Opera for the 2025 Summer Season as the Resident Lighting Designer.

Resident Lighting Designer : DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Lighting Design Mentor :  Williams College’s Senior Honors Projects (spring 2020)

Guest Lecturer/Artist : NYU’s Playwright’s Horizons Theater School (spring 2021)

BA : Drew University 2011

MFA : NYU 2016

Member : USA 829.

Contact : Russ Rosensweig, Agent | Summit Entertainment Group | 10 Potter Hill Drive, Guilford CT 06437 | 203.453.0188 | russ@summitentertainmentgroup.com

Email : sahokebrady@gmail.com | Instagram : @hokebradydesigns

Follow link for PDF of resume.

Toi toi toi to the cast, creative team, and crew of “The Knock” @ccityopera !

Jo : Mary-Hollis Hundley
Aisha : Cierra Byrd
Gonzales : Armando Contreras 
C.O.W.’s Wife : Katherine Pracht

Maestro : @davidmartinbloom 
Director : @ali
Toi toi toi to the extraordinary cast, creative team & crew of “The Barber of Seville” @ccityopera 

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