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Abigail Hoke-Brady is a New York based lighting designer whose work centers primarily in opera and classical music. As a designer she is interested in the ways light functions as a visual score to the work onstage.

Some of her most valued design projects include ‘Pagliacci’ (Seattle Opera); ‘Roméo et Juliette’ (Central City Opera);  ‘The Night Falls’ (Peak Performances/BalletCollective); ‘A Guide for the Homesick’ (LDK Productions); ‘How I Learned What I Learned’ (Playmakers Repertory Company); and ‘Time:Spans Festival’ (Dimenna Center/Earle Brown Music Foundation - co-designer alongside Burke Brown).

Exciting upcoming projects include ‘Intelligence’ with Virginia Opera, ‘A Doll’s House’ with Two River Theater, and the world premiere of ‘Little Miss Perfect’ with The Olney.

Resident Lighting Designer : DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Lighting Design Mentor :  Williams College’s Senior Honors Projects (spring 2020)

Guest Lecturer/Artist : NYU’s Playwright’s Horizons Theater School (spring 2021)

BA : Drew University 2011

MFA : NYU 2016

Member : USA 829.

Contact : Russ Rosensweig, Agent | Summit Entertainment Group | 10 Potter Hill Drive, Guilford CT 06437 | 203.453.0188 | russ@summitentertainmentgroup.com

Email : sahokebrady@gmail.com | Instagram : @hokebradydesigns

Follow link for PDF of resume.

Toi Toi Toi to the gorgeous production of “Intelligence” opening tonight at @vaopera 

Writing & Composition : Jake Heggie, Gene Scheer, Jawole Zollar

Director: @kililang 
Conductor: @adamturner7 
Set Design: @stevenckempdesign 
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Smiling when we can. Infinitely grateful to the community around me. Ready (I guess) for what’s next.

📸 @motendesigns
2025 has been bumpy at best for me - in ways I can’t express it’s been the hardest year I’ve ever had. But it also has been filled with beautiful people, glorious highs, and some pretty excellent art-making. 

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Belated Toi Toi Toi to this beautiful, violent, strange production with @catapultopera. 
What a joy and honor to be a part of this double bill of Monteverdi’s ‘Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clarinda’ and Nico Muhly’s ‘T