Who's Who in the Crew? Spotlight on: the Lighting Designer

R. CRAIG WOLF is a professional lighting designer and educator. Credits include productions for San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop in New York, Virginia Shakespeare and the Richmond Ballet Company, Theatre Artaud in San Francisco, and the Japan America Center and Odyssey Theatre Ensemble of Los Angeles. He is senior author of the lighting and sound sections of Scene Design and Stage Lighting, now in its ninth edition, and is a member of the Board of Directors of U.S.I.T.T., the national association of stage designers and technicians. He became a lighting associate member of the United Scenic Artists' Design Union in 1977. He has taught at the Universities of Michigan and Virginia and is currently Professor of Design and head of the design program at San Diego State University.

I was lucky enough to take an undergraduate lighting class directly from Craig my freshman year in college! Craig is absolutely the professional his resume describes, but he also has a great personality... and the BEST laugh! I could identify Craig by his laugh from a mile away.

Not only has Craig blessed stages all over the world with his gorgeous light plots, he has also guided SDSU MFA (and undergraduate) students into amazing careers. Tuesday Curran Anderson (undergraduate) had early success after she graduated from SDSU, and now Craig is working closely with graduate student Ashley Johnstone on Wings. Craig truly has a talent for helping students develop their lighting design skills, and Ashley (with a noteable resume already, including Randy's fall SDSU show, Desire Under the Elms) is the finest example of Craig's teachings.