ABOUT ME

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people, without possessing genius, have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Erica Lauren Maholmes is a designer, assistant, and technician for live theatre and dance.

She made her Broadway debut in 2024 as the Assistant Lighting Designer of "The Notebook" and returned to Broadway shortly after as one of the Associate Lighting Designers of "Mary Jane" at Manhattan Theatre Club featuring Rachel McAdams.

Her design portfolio has been displayed internationally at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial as part of the Emergence Portfolio Library, and at the 2024 Prolight + Sound Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

She was recently published in Light Collective's 2024 Publication Collected Light Volume Three: Women in Entertainment Lighting where you can find images of her work, as well as information on her as an artist.

She was a Design Wing Fellow for the 2022 Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha, Nebraska offering a design perspective in a New Play Lab format.

She served as an Artist and a Midwife in Term 5 of The Midwives Artistic Collective, is an Artistic Board Member of Cats Cradle Theatre.

She was a participating Lighting Designer (Group 22 -Harvest) as part of the 2021 Collaborations of Merritt presented by The Michael Merritt Awards. She has been featured on the ETC Connect et cetera blog.

She has done additional electrician work for Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Master Electrician), 2022 National High School Institute - Cherubs (Assistant Master Electrician), and Longwood Gardens (Performance Technician).

She is an alumni of the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas, West Chester University (BA), and Illinois State University (MFA). She is a proud member of United Scenic Artists 829 and Black Theatre Network.

From 2021 to 2023, Erica has proudly served on the Executive Board of Design Action, an inter-generational coalition of BIPOC and white designers working to end racial inequities in the North American Theater. She currently serves on Design Action's Advisory Council.