Adam Mendelson is an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair at University of Maryland-Baltimore County Department of Theatre where he teaches Lighting, Sound and Digital Media Design and  has designed over 45 productions after helping prepare the new theatre spaces for the opening of the state-of-the-art Performing Arts and Humanities Building in August of 2012.

He previously taught design at the University of Wyoming, the University of Texas-Arlington, Stephens College (Columbia, MO), and Lawrence Academy (Groton, Massachusetts).  Adam currently serves as the Vice-Chair of OISTAT’s Lighting Sub-Commission and is the Lighting Commission co-International Representative and Delegate from the USITT centre.

Design credits include: Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, MD: The Book Club Play, The Sound Inside (Lighting Design). 1st Stage, Tysons, VA: The Piano Lesson, Shutter Sisters, The Logan Festival of Solo Performance 2025 ; Theatre J: Tiny Lights; Pepper Theatre, Munich Germany: The Amish Project; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Sound Design); Rep Stage: Falsettos (Sound Design), Songs For A New World (Sound Design), Souvenir, The Heidi Chronicles; Classic Theatre of Maryland: A Christmas Carol, White Christmas, Cabaret, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet, Blithe Spirit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and over 35 others; Lexington Children’s Theatre: Ella Enchanted, Charlotte’s Web; Persiphere Theatre: Blue Room, Time Is On Our Side; Interrobang Productions @ The Voxel: I Will Eat You Alive;  [DANCE]: Multiple shows each: Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), LA Dance (Massachusetts), Snowy Range Dance (Wyoming), Towson University Department of Dance (Maryland)

Amy Chan is a light and theatre artist, “an exciting practitioner from Hong Kong and an emerging critical voice on light as a performance material” (Theatre and Performance Design, UK). She graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Master of Fine Arts (with distinction), major in lighting design. She explores the musicality, relationality and materiality of light, with research published in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She was the invited speaker on performance lighting in Akademie der Künste of Berlin and Prague Quadrennial 2023.

With a background in theatre, Bastiaan Schoof works in different fields of lighting. For his Happy Tunnel collective, he designs light art for public spaces, especially for tunnels. Next to that, as a senior teacher, he teaches lighting design for the bachelor program at the University of Arts in Amsterdam. And in 2012, when Amsterdam Light Festival started, for 10 years he was involved as a the technical and artistic advisor/curator. In 2021 he founded his own light expo “I Light You“ in Utrecht, which will have its second edition in January 2023. Also, he is involed in Institute of Lighting Design in the Netherlands (iLo). He also still designs, now for Une Loue pour l’Homme, a French circus.

Bastian A. Miranda is a lighting designer, scenographer, playwright and director based in Montreal. A graduate of UQAM’s École supérieure de théâtre in scenography, his practice operates at the intersection of performance, literature and somatic studies. He explores light, suspension and atmospheric variation as dramaturgical agents within a sensitive ecology where humans and environments remain inseparable.

In 2025, he founded Le Collaboratif, an interdisciplinary collective dedicated to horizontal collaboration. Through this structure, he leads Je te veux de la tendresse (2025–2027), a project positioning light and sound as generative forces. He is currently completing a Master’s degree in theatre at UQAM, focusing on collaborative research-creation and situated ethics in performance-making.