Résumé
Lighting for theater, dance & opera.
Based in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Karin Olson works nationally with companies including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Trinity Rep, and The Joyce Theater.
Selected
recent work
Pinocchio
Children’s Theatre Company · Director: Greg Banks · September 2026
In the Heights
Artistry · Director: Maija García · July 2026
The Butler Did It · World premiere
Park Square Theater · Director: David Ira Goldstein · July 2026
A Chorus Line
Park Square Theater · Director: Stephen DiMenna · May 2026
Hungry Like the Wolf · World premiere
History Theater · Director: Laura Leffler · March 2026
Only the Perverse Fantasy Can Save Us · World premiere
Walker Arts Center · Choreographer: Mathew Janczewski · June 2025
Fifty Boxes of Earth · World premiere
Theater Mu at Park Square · Director: kt shorb · March 2025
The Snowy Day
Minnesota Opera · Director: Eboni Adams · February 2025
I Am Betty · World premiere
History Theater · Director: Maija Garcia · November 2023
The Song Poet · World premiere
Minnesota Opera · Director: Rick Shiomi · March 2023
National
work
Antigone
Cleveland Playhouse · Director: Lauren Keating · March 2022
A Christmas Carol
Trinity Rep, Providence, RI · Director: Mark Valdez · November 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Elizabethan Stage · Director: Marcela Lorca · June 2015
O(h)!
casebolt and smith at Joyce Soho, NYC · February 2010
Awards
& education
McKnight Theater Artist
2023–2024
Suzi Bass Award · Outstanding Design
2024 · Into the Burrow: A Peter Rabbit Story
B.A., Lighting Design
University of Minnesota Twin Cities · 1998