Biography
GWEN CUBBAGE (Lighting Designer) is UW Dance’s new Production Manager and Lighting Designer. She returned to live design in 2023, following architectural lighting projects including the new lobby of Safeco Plaza at 4th and Madison; the new main terminal of PDX; and the façade of The Spiral skyscraper in NYC. Since then, she artistic-directed and designed Sisehtnysotohp, a site-specific lighting and commissioned music installation granted through Critical Northwest, and lighting-designed shows at Taproot Theater (Sherlock Holmes…), Cornish Playhouse (Dance Capstone Project), Seattle Shakespeare Company (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Queer / Pride 2024 (Shea Coulee, Katya, Alaska Thunderfuck, Santigold, Tegan and Sara, Rico Nasty, etc.), Snoqualmie Ballroom (Craig Morgan, Rascal Flatts, Hoobastank, The Price is Right Live, etc.) and more.
In her fourteen-year career, she has received seventeen awards, nominations, or features, as well as several art grants, and been on the lighting design teams for a Tony-nominated musical and an IES Award-winning building.