Elizabeth Kline
Lecturer
Biography
Elizabeth Kline is a Lighting Designer currently based in Las Vegas, originally from the DC Metropolitan area. She achieved her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design & Technology from The Pennsylvania State University in 2012 and her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2016.
Elizabeth has been designing professionally across disciplines since 2008 and maintained her reputation as an avid working professional throughout her academic pursuits. The venues she has designed in range from an 1800 seat "state of the art" proscenium theatre, to a 120-175 seat completely reconfigurable black box theatre, to an empty warehouse space turned 60-95 seat blackbox equipped with 9 shoebox dimmers, to a 55 seat "art gallery by day, performance venue by night"; She works regularly in the Las Vegas arts community and within the network of Las Vegas's private high schools as well as continually broadening her professional outreach by staying involved with recurring projects in Pennsylvania and California.
While maintaining an active freelance lifestyle, and in addition to the courses she teaches for the Department of Dance at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Elizabeth also teaches both of the lighting design courses offered by the Department of Theatre, and is concurrently an on-call lighting operator, designer, and programmer for The Smith Center.