About

Caroline is a lighting and theatrical designer working all along the West Coast, with their home base in San Diego, CA. The majority of their current work is in themed architecture and themed entertainment, with significant unnamed projects in Anaheim, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and China. Additionally, they can regularly be found designing for theatre, opera, and dance.

Caroline is also a theatre consultant, specializing in theatrical lighting controls design and architectural lighting design, with Charcoalblue. https://www.charcoalblue.com/about-us/our-people/caroline-andrew

Caroline obtained their MFA in Theatre Design and Technology, emphasizing in Lighting Design, from San Diego University in 2018. Immediately upon graduating, Caroline went to work for Walt Disney Imagineering as a Show Lighting Systems intern, specializing in lighting controls. Prior to working for Disney, Caroline interned at OCS Lighting and Control specializing in lighting controls and theatrical applications, working with the ETC rep on architectural and theatrical systems design. their undergraduate studies were done at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, following which Caroline was the resident master electrician and lighting designer for the Soka Performing Arts Center in Aliso Viejo, CA for 3 years. 

Caroline has designed for Princess Cruise Lines, Skylight Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, as well as the Okoboji Summer Theatre, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Hawai’i Education of the Arts, and numerous other regional theatres. their debut projection design was seen at Opera America’s showcase of the popular collaborative opera, The Falling and the Rising. Caroline also has worked as an assistant and associate lighting designer for Riyadh Season 2022, Princess Cruise Lines, Cygnet Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, the Laguna Playhouse, the Los Angeles Opera, and San Diego Comic-Con. Looking beyond the theatrical and themed entertainment worlds, Caroline also designs and lights art installations and special exhibitions, including Jewels of the Season, and Monet’s Étretat at the Timken Museum in Balboa Park, as well as lighting the Blizzcon 2019 immersive Diablo 4 art experience.