Lighting Designer

Tom Ontiveros has designed lighting and/or projection for premier works by Naomi Iizuka, Charles Mee Jr. and Jessica Hagedorn as well as choreography and compositions by Paul Dresher, Mark Grey, Yolande Snaith and Allyson Green.  He has designed for projects in the Holland Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, and The International Theatre Festival in Cluj, Romania. Other collaborations include works with Michael Grief, Bob Balaban and Erin Mee. Credits include: Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse); The Tyrant (Paul Dresher Ensemble); The Ur Sonata w/ Steve Schick (Wagner Studio Theatre, S.D.); Enemy Slayer (Phoenix Symphony); My Old Lady, Visions of Kerouac, Indiscretions, Candida (Marin Theatre Company); The Exonerated (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle Awards for “Most Unique Theatrical Experience”), Sweet 15 (San Diego Rep); Miss Julie, Women Center Stage Festival (The Culture Project); Dream Report (Allyson Green Dance), Full Circle (Danspace/Allyson Green Dance); Doppelganger (3LD, NYC); A Dance Party (K.J. Holmes-Joyce SOHO). Sonny’s Blues, Angel Face (Word for Word); Garden of Deadly Sound, Only Sound Remains (Yolande Snaith), Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Santa Cruz Civic); First Love, Schrodinger's Girlfriend (Dean Goodman Award), Summertime, First Love (Magic Theatre); Contagion, Funny House of a Negro (Dean Goodman Award), The Language of Angels (Intersection); Tattoo Girl (Sledgehammer).  Tom recently joined the faculty at California State University, Chico as Assistant Professor of Lighting Design.