Kaelyn Benoit
When technical theatre major Kyla Brunk approaches a lighting project, she begins by closing her eyes. The senior lighting design major was taught to read the script, reread it and write down her ideas. However, when officially approaching a show design, she tends to divert from that tactic.
“I close my eyes, and I can see what color I want on the stage,” Brunk said, describing her brainstorm process. “There’s certain shows that are certain colors, like Pippin is purple, Carousel is light purple, and Legally Blonde is of course pink.”
These colorful visions come in handy when conceptualizing the lighting design for a number of productions across her lighting career, most recently within various FSC theatre productions. But her design origins did not come in her time as a collegiate student instead, she credits her high school experience for lighting her spark…