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Michael James Clark
From: Houston, Texas. LA Opera: lighting design for La Traviata (2024, debut).
Michael James Clark is the Head of Lighting for Houston Grand Opera, where his many credits include mainstage and outdoor productions as well as the world premieres of The Snowy Day, The Phoenix, Some Light Emerges and Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. His engagements for the 2023/24 season included lighting design for Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, La Bohème with Canadian Opera Company, Parsifal, Falstaff and Meilina Tsui’s The Big Swim with Houston Grand Opera, and Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day with Portland Opera. He has designed lighting for San Francisco Opera productions of Tosca and La Traviata and La Bohème. He also has designed lighting for Teatro La Fenice, Stages Repertory Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars and the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. He holds a degree in lighting design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Michael James Clark is the Head of Lighting for Houston Grand Opera, where his many credits include mainstage and outdoor productions as well as the world premieres of The Snowy Day, The Phoenix, Some Light Emerges and Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. His engagements for the 2023/24 season included lighting design for Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, La Bohème with Canadian Opera Company, Parsifal, Falstaff and Meilina Tsui’s The Big Swim with Houston Grand Opera, and Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day with Portland Opera. He has designed lighting for San Francisco Opera productions of Tosca and La Traviata and La Bohème. He also has designed lighting for Teatro La Fenice, Stages Repertory Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars and the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. He holds a degree in lighting design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.