Elaine Wong is a Lighting Designer working out of the New York City area, though she originally hails from just outside of Toronto, Ontario. She is currently the Resident Lighting Designer with the Thingamajig Theater Company in Pagosa Springs, CO, as well as with NYC-based Resolve Productions.
Her most recent design work includes Resolve Productions' Irish Tour of Misterman, in which she had the privilege of designing in several Irish venues from Cork to Donegal. Other recent credits include: Circle Mirror Transformation, God of Carnage, Hairspray, Aida, Sister Act, Big River (Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts); You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Circle Mirror Transformation (Mile Square Theater); bt i cd only whisper (The Flea); Hurly Burly, One/1, Dividing Lines (Snapped Productions); Tick, Tick, Boom! (American Theater Group); and Vietnam...Through My Lens (LSNelson Productions). For her work with BUBBA (Black Angus Productions) at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in 2014, Elaine was nominated for an Outstanding Lighting Design award.
Elaine earned her BAH in Theatre, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from McMaster University in 2008, followed by an MFA in Lighting Design from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2012. At Mason Gross she designed several main stage plays, including Intimate Apparel and Machinal, as well as new student-written works, including Tracing Nora (by Peter Handy) and Egyptology (by Lisa Huberman).
In the field of dance, she spent a summer as a Production Intern with Jacob's Pillow in 2010, which lead to an internship with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2012. There she assisted Lighting Supervisor Laura Bickford and Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel during the Company's residency for the premiere of Story/Time. She was excited to accompany BTJ/AZ on their 2012 European Tour as a Lighting Technician. In 2013 she served as the House Electrician for Bill T. Jones' NJ workshop of Superfly.
Elaine is currently an Adjunct Professor and Master Electrician at Montclair State University. You can see her upcoming designs in Colorado and in New Jersey: West Side Story, Legally Blonde, Little Shop of Horrors, Thoroughly Modern Mille (Summer 2018 at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, CO); and Sonya Vanya Masha Spike (Fall 2018 at Mile Square Theater, NJ). She is also the owner of a collection of theatrical penguins, nerds, and whales.
Her most recent design work includes Resolve Productions' Irish Tour of Misterman, in which she had the privilege of designing in several Irish venues from Cork to Donegal. Other recent credits include: Circle Mirror Transformation, God of Carnage, Hairspray, Aida, Sister Act, Big River (Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts); You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Circle Mirror Transformation (Mile Square Theater); bt i cd only whisper (The Flea); Hurly Burly, One/1, Dividing Lines (Snapped Productions); Tick, Tick, Boom! (American Theater Group); and Vietnam...Through My Lens (LSNelson Productions). For her work with BUBBA (Black Angus Productions) at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in 2014, Elaine was nominated for an Outstanding Lighting Design award.
Elaine earned her BAH in Theatre, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from McMaster University in 2008, followed by an MFA in Lighting Design from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2012. At Mason Gross she designed several main stage plays, including Intimate Apparel and Machinal, as well as new student-written works, including Tracing Nora (by Peter Handy) and Egyptology (by Lisa Huberman).
In the field of dance, she spent a summer as a Production Intern with Jacob's Pillow in 2010, which lead to an internship with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2012. There she assisted Lighting Supervisor Laura Bickford and Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel during the Company's residency for the premiere of Story/Time. She was excited to accompany BTJ/AZ on their 2012 European Tour as a Lighting Technician. In 2013 she served as the House Electrician for Bill T. Jones' NJ workshop of Superfly.
Elaine is currently an Adjunct Professor and Master Electrician at Montclair State University. You can see her upcoming designs in Colorado and in New Jersey: West Side Story, Legally Blonde, Little Shop of Horrors, Thoroughly Modern Mille (Summer 2018 at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, CO); and Sonya Vanya Masha Spike (Fall 2018 at Mile Square Theater, NJ). She is also the owner of a collection of theatrical penguins, nerds, and whales.
