E. Lieu Wolhardt

Lighting & Video Media Designer

2025 BFA Drama, Video Media Design

E. (El) Lieu Wolhardt is a multi-cultural/multi-media/multi-disciplinary artist graduating as part of both the Video Media and Lighting Design departments, with an additional major in Global Studies.

Credits at Carnegie Mellon University include: The Dumb Waiter (Lighting and Media Designer), Ghosts (Lighting Programmer), where did the lilacs go? (Dance/Light; Lighting Designer), Alcina (Lighting Designer), Lorca in a Green Dress (Media Engineer), Gloria (Lighting Designer), Love and Money (Lighting Programmer), Lonely Planet (Media Engineer), Passage (Media Designer).

Professional credits include: Suite Life (Lighting and Co-Media Designer), American Psycho (Monumental Theater Company; Associate Media Designer), Young Playwrights Festival (City Theater; Assistant Media Designer).

Work Samples

Alcina

By George Frideric Handel
Lighting design by E. Lieu Wolhardt
CMU School of Music – January 2025

Apprentice Scenes

Lighting design by E. Lieu Wolhardt
Sante Fe Opera – August 2024

Production photo from where did the lilacs go?

Dance/Light – where did the lilacs go?

Choreographed & directed by Alon Moradi
Lighting design by E. Lieu Wolhardt
CMU School of Drama – January 2025

Passage

By Christopher Chen
Directed by Robert Ramirez & Kyle Haden
Lighting design by E. Lieu Wolhardt
CMU School of Drama – March 2024

Ritual Purification II

Creative director & media by E. Lieu Wolhardt
CMU Playground Festival XX – December 2022