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Christine A. Binder

Christine is a Chicago-based lighting designer who has been working in theatre, opera, and dance for over 30 years. Her opera designs include work with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, San Francisco Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Sieji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan, and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma among others. In theatre, she has designed lighting for Lookingglass Theatre Company, Writers Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Geva Theatre Company, among others.  She is an Artistic Associate with Lookingglass Theatre Company. She has been nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award several times and is the recipient of the Dora Award for Best Lighting Design for this production of Eugene Onegin. She is the Head of Lighting Design for The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.

Bio as of June 2025