Lucas Benjaminh Krech

Lighting Design

Lighting designer for opera, dance, theater, installation, and performance.

Opera: Soldier Songs and Aida (Dir, Yuval Sharon); Don Giovanni (Dir, Mark Streshinsky); and The Seven Deadly Sins: A Fire Opera (Dir, Roy Rallo)

Dance: Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan, Sean Curran, Johannes Weiland, Donald Mahler, Sallie Wilson, Paul Sutherland, Keith Michael, Trebien Pollard, Anandha Ray, David Brick, and Viktor Kabaniaev.

Off-Broadway: Fate’s Imagination (Dir, Hayley Finn); Becoming Adele (Dir, Victor Maog); Sake with the Haiku Geisha and The Last Word (Dir, Alex Lippard).

Regional Theatre: Desperate Hours and Of Mice and Men (Barter Theatre); Lovers & Executioners (MTC); House of Lucky (The Magic).

His work has been seen across the United States, Puerto Rico, Rumania, and the UK.

MFA from New York University.

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

Lighting designer Lucas Krech’s use of shadows and blackouts imbues the play with a much-needed dose of theatricality. —SF Weekly