Carl Faber

Carl Faber is a multidisciplinary visual designer and production specialist, often (but not always) working as a Lighting Designer for theater, dance, opera, and immersive experiences. Projects range from designing building-wide site-responsive environments, to illuminating scenes for stages of all sizes, to creating unique live-video experiences for simultaneous performances, to developing cross-continental digital collaboration solutions.

Carl has created work across the United States, Europe, and Asia, including recent designs with Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera, Artists Repertory Theatre, Oklahoma Contemporary, American Dance Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Profile Theatre, Third Angle, Ars Nova, Theater Freiburg, Shanghai Center Grand, Non-Stop Wroclaw, and the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival.

Proud to be a Founding Member of New York City’s Woodshed Collective, Carl has designed numerous immersive environments including the 53-room installation of The Tenant. Carl is also an Open Space company member at Portland’s Third Rail Rep and a frequent artistic collaborator and conceptual consultant with Culture Mill in Saxapahaw, North Carolina. With a working proficiency in French, he was a Location Gaffer for NBC’s coverage of the Paris Olympics.

Outside the field of stage lighting, Carl has toured in various production capacities with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Bon Iver, and The National.  He’s also a skilled web designer for portfolio websites (like this one!) and virtual experiences, with expertise in 2D drafting, 3D modeling, and database management platforms to create customized solutions for any theatrical application. He serves as Director of Operations at LA-based Culture House Immersive, overseeing financial management and strategic planning for a portfolio of interactive experiences.

Carl has taught Design and Stagecraft courses at Portland State University, and served as a Guest Lecturer and Teaching Artist at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU/Tisch), as well as at Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences (Los Angeles) and The Catlin Gabel School (Portland).

Based out of Portland, Oregon, Carl is the Lighting Supervisor at Portland Opera and continues to freelance as an Associate/Assistant Designer, supporting Brian MacDevitt, Justin Townsend, Ken Posner, Robert Wierzel, Ann G. Wrightson, Duane Schuler, Rui Rita, Connie Yun, and Ben Stanton on numerous projects, including the Broadway productions of The Book of Mormon, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and August: Osage County.