Jacqueline Reid is a lighting designer and stage manager most recently based in Los Angeles.

While there she was the Resident Lighting Assistant for the Los Angeles Opera as well as the Resident Lighting Designer for The Actor’s Gang.

Favorite projects for the Gang include the national and international tour of The Trial of the Catonsville 9 as well as a new production of Our Town.  In L.A. she has also worked with Ebony Repertory Theatre, AMDA, Pasadena Playhouse, Princess Cruises and CalArts.

Other lighting design credits include Trying and Cradle of Man for Victory Gardens Chicago; Rembrandt’s Gift for Madison Repertory Theatre, The Young Playwright’s Festival and Tick, Tick…Boom for Pegasus Players, Antigone, House of Bernarda Alba, and The Oresteia (Joseph Jefferson Citation Nomination) for Greasy Joan & Company, also in Chicago.

She has designed for many schools including Northwestern University, Grinnell College, Franklin & Marshall College and Wheaton College. Jacqueline received her BA from Tufts University and her MFA from Northwestern, and is very happy to join the faculty at Rutgers University in July 2010.