Colleen Albrecht is a lighting designer and photographer living in Northeast Ohio.  She has designed for Cleveland area companies such as convergence-continuum, Cleveland Opera, Playhouse Square, Great Lakes Theater in collaboration with Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland Institute of Music Opera Theatre, Beck Center, The Fine Arts Association, Heights Youth Theatre, True North Cultural Arts, Magnificat, Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, and Karamu House.

Beginning in 2018, as resident designer at Karamu House, she designed Sassy Mamas, Simply Simone, Fences, A Day of Absence, Black Nativity, Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton, This Property is Condemned, The Velocity of Autumn, Aida, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and The Mountaintop.  She has also designed the All-City Musical productions with Cleveland Metropolitan School District All-City Arts at the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square for the past twelve years, including Urinetown, 42^nd Street, Bring It On, The Wiz, Kiss Me Kate, Memphis, Rent, Aida, Footloose, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Fame, A Decade of Dreams, and Dreamgirls.  As resident designer at PCPA Pacific Conservatory Theatre on California’s central coast, she designed The Chalk Circle, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Kiss Me Kate, Urinetown, The Sound of Music, Othello, and The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  While resident designer at convergence-continuum, she designed lights for Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, Tales of the Lost Formicans, Poona the F*ckdog and Other Plays for Children, Icarus, Demon Baby, Mr. Marmalade, Freakshow, Finn in the Underworld, Ouroboros, Kimberly Akimbo, The Museum Play, Milk Milk Lemonade, and Sordid Lives.  She traveled with Keiko Matsui for two years, lighting her world tour U.S. dates, and lit Cyndi Lauper in concert at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium.

Ms. Albrecht has taught lighting design and technology and stage management at Kent State University, PCPA, Lake Erie College, Tri-C West, and Cleveland area high schools.  She obtained her BFA in production design and technology from Ohio University and her MFA in drama in lighting design from the University of California, Irvine.