Welcome Liz Waldman Lighting & Sound Design Fresno State Theatre’s newest faculty member, Liz Waldman, came to Fresno from Atlanta, GA, where she lived most recently. Prior to her arrival in Fresno, she taught Lighting and Sound Design at Emory University in Atlanta and designed for several companies there, including Theater Emory, Room to Move Dance Company, and Fabrefaction Theatre Company. She earned her MFA in lighting design from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. While in New Orleans, she designed lights and sound for Southern Repertory Theatre, The Tulane Shakespeare Company and the NOLA Project. In addition to theatre design, she also designs lighting for concerts. She also worked at several concert venues in the New Orleans area including The House of Blues, The Republic and the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, MS. She has run lights for acts including Lady Gaga, Ludacris, Stephen Marley, Cyndi Lauper, Steppenwolf, The Temptations, Young Jeezy, Talib Kweli, Cage the Elephant, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Rusko, Peter Murphy and Iron and Wine. She also had the opportunity to do lighting on tour with the bands Paramore and New Found Glory. Before she moved down south, Liz received her MA in Theatre for Education and Social Change at the University of New Mexico, in her hometown of Albuquerque, NM. While there she designed for the Rough Theatre Company, Theatre X, The Vortex Theatre and Quickbeam Systems, a local company that provided lighting and sound for most of the casino concert venues in the area, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the New Mexico State Fair and other assorted venues and events. Before returning to school in New Mexico, she worked at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival where she acted as both wardrobe manager and assistant festival sound designer and the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies where she was an Assistant Stage Manager. Liz earned her BA in Drama from Colorado College, where she spent most of her time in the theatres on campus designing sound, lighting and stage managing. She caught the “theatre bug” very early in life and discovered her passion for theatre technology when she ran sound for a school production of The Crucible when she was only twelve years old. She is the proud mother of Ava who will turn two on July 4. .