Colony Theatre Member Jamie McAllister

Jamie McAllister began her career designing lights for The Commonwealth Stage, a professional resident company in Massachusetts, while achieving her M.F.A. in lighting design. Upon her return to California she became resident Assistant Lighting Designer for South Coast Repertory's 1981-82 season. Subsequently, she became the resident Lighting Director/Designer for Westside Repertory Theatre in West Los Angeles where she designed Dylan, P.S. Your Cat is Dead, and The Shadow Box.

Jamie has designed lighting for the Colony productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, Holy Ghosts, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Suicide, Naked Dancing, Mr. Roberts, Bedroom Farce, To Grandmother's House We Go, Candide, When the Bough Breaks, To Culebra, The World of Ray Bradbury, and A Day Out of Time, for which she received a Drama-Logue Award.

She continues to design theatrical dance and architectural lighting for theatres in Los Angeles and Orange County. A certified optician, Jamie is currently on staff as a consultant in low vision lighting and optical aids for the Braille Institute.

1996