Conor Mulligan Lighting Designer

Conor Mulligan is an artist and lighting designer. His design work represents an ongoing exploration of light in live performance.

Born in Dublin, Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day; at five years old Conor immigrated to the United States with his mother, father, and older brother. Eighteen years later he became an American citizen. Growing up in rural Maryland Conor found a creative outlet in theatre; a sandbox to explore the complexities of being human.

Conor lives in New York. He designs lighting for stage productions in New York City as well as regionally throughout the United States. Internationally his work has been featured in the Despertaresimpulsa 2019 arts festival (Guadalajara Mexico) in collaboration with the Criro Collective, a Boston-based dance company.

Conor is a member of the design team at Joe's Pub. Other collaborations include Manuel Vignoulle-M/motions, NK&D, Ballet NEXT, Konverjdans, The Russian Arts Theater & Studio, AG!D, The Satellite Collective, BAM, Roberto Araujo, IndieWorks, Smith Street Stages, National Children's Chorus, The Little Orchestra Society (NY), Luna Stage (NJ), Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (MA), Bristol Riverside Theatre (PA), REP Stage, Iron Crow Theatre Company, Baltimore Theatre Project, Milburn Stone Theatre (MD), 1st Stage (VA), MOXIE Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cygnet Theatre (CA).
Conor's work at Cygnet Theatre has been nominated twice for the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for outstanding lighting design. First in 2014 for his design of Fool For Love and again in 2017 for his design of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds. In 2017 Conor won the Craig Noel Award for outstanding lighting design for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man- In-The-Moon Marigolds. Conor was nominated for a Helen Hayes award in Oustanding Lighting Design in 2020 for his work on Columbinus at 1st Stage (VA).

Industry Specializations

Live Performance

Dance

Opera

Special Events

Theatre

Job Specializations

Assistant Designer (LD)

Associate Designer (LD)

Skills

Basic

Architectural Lighting (LD)

Drafting - Computer (LD)

Moving Light Design (LD)

Moving Light Programming (LD)

Lighting Consoles

Congo (LD)

EOS/ION (LD)

Express (LD)

Expression (LD)

Software

AutoCAD (LD)

Lightwright (LD)

Vectorworks (LD)