Lucas Benjaminh Krech

Lighting Design

Freelance Lighting & Video artist has designed over 300 operas, dances, plays, and performance pieces across the United States and Europe. Installation, lighting, & video art has been shown at Black Rock CIty, SOMArts, Studio Gracia, and others.

Winner 2011 "Best Lighting Design - Local" at Broadway World, San Francisco for "Care of Trees". Recipient of 2011 Lighting Artist in Dance award from the Dancer's Group for new collaboration with Avy K productions. "Of the Earth" nominated for a 2010 BATCC Award - Best Lighting and was featured in the September 2011 "American Theater" magazine.

Dance Collaborators include Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan, Sean Curran, Amy Seiwert, Johannes Weiland, Gemze De Lappe, Sallie Wilson, Viktor Kabaniaev, Erika Tsimbrovsky, Trebien Pollard, Anandha Ray, David Brick, and Ben Levy.

Opera; Berkeley Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Beth Morrison Projects, West Edge Opera, others
Off-Broadway; "Sake with the Haiku Geisha", "The Last Word…", "Becoming Adele", "Fate's Imagination", others
Regional; (The Magic, Marin Theatre Company, The Barter, Center Rep, others).

Design contributions are astute, with particularly evocative input from Lucas Krech's subtle lighting and projections. —Variety

The subtly powerful lighting design … is an impressive and astonishing achievement. —NYTheatre.com

Lucas Krech’s impressive lighting designs … are perfectly realized creations that are as much a part of the dance as the exchanges between Levy and Aline. Both lighting and score provide both staging and directional movement. —CultureVulture.net

[The Set] under Lucas Benjaminh Krech’s careful lighting design, seems to change to myriad light pastels, that bring to mind Japanese water colors. —American Theatre Web

The characters are limned in sharp but simple strokes, reflected in Lucas Krech’s light cues. —San Francisco Chronicle

The technical stars of this show were the lighting by Lucas Krech … Very, very effective. —Bristol Herald Courier