Zak Stowe is an award-winning lighting designer, producer, director, administrator, and educator. His multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary skillset has made him a valued technical advisor and consultant in the Wisconsin theatre community. Zak is based in Madison, Wisconsin and has previously served as Technical Director of State Street Theatre Co, President of StageQ, and Lighting Specialist for Full Compass Systems. Zak currently serves as President of the Bartell Community Theatre Foundation and Lighting Supervisor for the Overture Center for the Arts. In his not-so-free time, Zak tours as a pyrotechnician and photographer for Tora!Tora!Tora! Air Shows.

 

Lighting credits include: Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Cabaret, Falsettos, Die Mommie! Die!, Laced, and Next Fall (StageQ); The Mole Hill Stories (Children's Theater of Madison); La traviata, Cosi fan tutte (UW Opera); Disney's The Little Mermaid (Four Seasons); Harvey (Madison College); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Edgewood College); Born Yesterday, Other Desert Cities, and Working (Madison Theatre Guild); CLUE: On Stage, Shrek the Musical (Mercury Players); Mineola Twins (KR Women's Theatre); Menacing (Broom Street Theatre); And Then There Were None, Almost Maine, Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet (Strollers Theatre); Urinetown (James Madison Memorial High); Singing in the Rain, She Loves Me, Into the Woods, Around the World in 80 Days (MLC Forum); Miracle on 34th Street, The Importance of Being Earnest, I Do! I Do! (State Street Theatre). Director credits include: Southern Baptist Sissies; Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (StageQ). Producer credits include: Cabaret, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Falsettos, Next Fall, Act a Lady, Laced, RAID! Attach on Stonewall, Queer Shorts 12, Queer Shorts 13, CapitalQ Theatre Festival (StageQ).

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He wishes to thank his late-father whom he blames for his obsession with lighting, his mother and sisters for their love and support, his partner Josiah for his love and patience with his bizarre sleep schedule, his family of friends who remind him about the value of sleep and fun, and everyone in the Wisconsin theatre community who welcomed, embraced, nurtured, and drank with him.