E. Lieu Wolhardt
Video & Media/Lighting Designer
2025 BFA Drama, Video & Media Design and Lighting 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 programs, with an additional major in Global Studies. Their range of studies has allowed them to further develop their understanding of light as a medium. They seek to pursue a career in music-driven design, incorporating their classical viola background and passion for live music. Through their personal artistic practice, they seek to explore ideas of decolonization, exilic spaces, disbelief, self obsession, self repulsion, and the existential nature of being everything & nothing at all.
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 (Kelly Strayhorn Theater; Lighting and Co-Media Designer), American Psycho (Monumental Theater Company; Associate Projection Designer), Young Playwrights Festival (City Theater; Assistant Projection Designer).
Work Samples
Alcina
By George Frideric Handel
Directed by Seamus Ricci
Lighting design by E. Lieu Wolhardt
CMU School of Music – January 2025
Dance/Light – where did the lilacs go?
Choreographed & directed by Alon Moradi
Lighting design by E. Lieu Wolhardt
CMU School of Drama – January 2025
Gloria
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Kaycee Swierc
Lighting design by E. Lieu Wolhardt
CMU School of Drama – October 2024
Suite Life: A Celebration of Billy Strayhorn & Gene Kelly
Musical Directed by Hugo Cruz Directed by Pria Dahiya
Lighting design & co-media by E. Lieu Wolhardt
Kelly Strayhorn Theatre – November 2024
Passage
By Christopher Chen
Directed by Robert Ramirez & Kyle Haden
Media 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