Alex Flinner

A Lighting Designer out of Duluth MN, Alex greatly enjoys using light to enhance and create moments that please the eye and inspire intrigue. Resident Lighting and Sound Designer at the University of Wisconsin-Superior Theater Department, he has also recently designed lighting for The Minnesota Ballet’s Nutcracker (2022), LOON’s Hansel and Gretel (Lyric Opera of the North), Harbor City International High School productions, and many more. He has worked with The Duluth Playhouse on their Family Stage and NorShor Stage, Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company (GSVLOC), Wise Fool Theater, Lyric Arts in Anoka MN, and The Phipps Center in Hudson WI. In 2017 Alex won Broadway World’s Minneapolis Regional Award for Lighting with GSVLOC’s The Gondoliers. Outside the realm of lighting, Alex also designs sound, directs livestreams, consults on theatrical system upgrades, records concerts, and plays upright bass with the Duluth Community Band.

Roles with Loon

• Lighting Design in Cavalleria Rusticana & Gianni Schicchi
  
• Lighting Design in The Mikado
  
• Lighting Design in Amahl & The Night Visitors
  
• Lighting Design in La Traviata
  
• Lighting Design in St. John Passion
  
• Lighting Designer in Don Giovanni
  
• Lighting Designer in L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love)
  
• Lighting Designer in Amahl and the Night Visitors
  
• Lighting Designer in Tales From a Safe Distance: Everything Comes to a Head
  
• Lighting Designer in Hansel and Gretel
  
• Lighting Designer in As One