
Artistic Associate
Christine A. Binder (she/her/hers) is a Chicago-based lighting designer who has been working in theatre, opera, and dance for nearly 30 years. Christine has designed for Writers Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Geva Theatre Center. Her opera designs include work with the Canadian Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Houston Grand Opera. Recent designs include Eugene Onegin (Seiji Ozawa Music Festival in Matsumoto Japan); Miracle (William Marovitz Producer); Mother of the Maid and The Wickhams (Northlight Theatre Company). Upcoming work includes The Agitators (Alabama Shakespeare); The Last Match (Writers Theatre); Eugene Onegin (Rome Opera). She is the Head of Lighting Design at The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Bio as of 2021
ARTIST MEDIA
LOOKINGGLASS PRODUCTIONS
EDUCATION
MFA Lighting Design and Technology, Northern Illinois University
CREDITS AND AWARDS
THEATRE CREDITS
Chicago:
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Chicago Opera Theatre
- Writers Theatre
- Victory Gardens Theater
- Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Court Theatre
- Northlight Theatre
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Indiana Repertory Theatre
- Goodman Theatre
Regional:
- San Francisco Opera
- Tulsa Opera
- Pittsburgh Opera
- New York City Opera
- Geneva Opera
- Houston Grand Opera
- Seattle Repertory Theatre
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival
AWARDS
- Jeff Nomination for Lighting Design – Large for The Whipping Man (Northlight Theatre, 2013)
- Jeff Nomination for Lighting Design for Pride and Prejudice (Northlight Theatre, 2006)
- Jeff Nomination for Lighting Design for Lookingglass Alice (Lookingglass Theatre Company, 2005)
- Non-Equity Jeff Nomination for Lighting Design for Hunchback (Redmoon Theater, 2001)