Karin Olson
McKnight Theater Artist Fellow
Minneapolis , MN
Biography

Karin Olson is a Minneapolis-based lighting designer with credits at the Minnesota Opera (Song Poet), Children’s Theater (Spamtown USA!), Guthrie, the Ordway, Park Square, Mixed Blood, History Theater, among many others. She has designed nationally for Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Count of Monte Cristo), Cleveland Playhouse (Antigone), Trinity Rep (A Christmas Carol, Fuente Ovejuna), and Syracuse Stage. She loves new works and lighting dance with BRKFST Dance, Alternative Motion Project, Combustible Company, and Threads Dance. Favorite recent designs include Redwood at the Jungle Theater, Paradise and We Are Cosmic at the Southern and HERbeat with Taiko Arts Midwest at the Ordway. Karinolsonlighting.com