Lonnie Alcaraz
Professor of Lighting Design
Lighting Design
Design
M.F.A. in Drama (Lighting Design) and B.A. in Drama, University of California, Irvine
Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz is professor of drama at UC Irvine, where he serves as head of the lighting program. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in lighting design, as well as classes in 2D drafting, 3D modeling, and rendering.
A professional lighting designer, Alcaraz has worked extensively at regional theatres including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Repertory, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Laguna Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, and East West Players. He is resident lighting designer at the Great River Shakespeare Festival.
His longstanding collaboration with Culture Clash includes The Birds at South Coast Repertory and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Culture Clash in AmeriCCa at South Coast Repertory and San Diego Repertory, and their national touring show Radio Mambo. He is also active as a producer, with a focus on Latinx productions and community-engaged theatre.
Recent work includes American Mariachi and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for South Coast Repertory’s new Outside SCR initiative at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Internationally, he designed for Beitak Productions at the Royal Opera House of Muscat in Oman, creating an ice-skating production set to opera with professional singers and the National Orchestra of Prague. In addition, he has designed for Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Florida and Universal Studios Japan.
