about

Riva Fairhall is a New York based Lighting Designer. She can be found downtown designing musicals and absurdist plays, on and off Broadway assisting other brilliant Lighting Designers, and in Inwood caring for her small menagerie of hamsters and the renegade mouse who lives in her apartment.

Selected designs include Carrie, Applause (NYU NSB); Gypsy, Assassins (Strasberg Institute); Phantasmagoria, Red Bike (The New School); Choir Boy (Yale Rep); Manning, Alice, Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (Student Directors Thesis); The Tempest (Yale Shakespeare Research Project); Fireflies, School Girls (Yale Cabaret); The Bakkhai (Yale Summer Cabaret).

Constantly striving to lower her shield of ‘contempt prior to investigation’ in life and in work, she has discovered the value of sitting in discomfort as a human and in the theatre. She endeavors to be of joyful service and comes to every table as her full authentic self, embracing all corners of the humanity of her fellow collaborators as well as the characters in the stories she is privileged with the task of illuminating.

contact her at fairhall.riva@gmail.com