About The Light Lady

Hello. Thanks for visiting my website. My name is Beth Rand and I am a theatrical lighting designer and theatre manager. During the school year I manage the two PACs in the Snohomish School District and during the summer I freelance as a theatrical lighting designer.

I began my technical theatre career at my own high school theatre. I was lucky enough to go to a school that had a performing arts center which brought in outside events.Students from the high school work alongside a professional crew for these plays, musicals, operas, movies, lectures and so on. In college I majored in “Drama; emphasis Stage Lighting”.

I have worked in technical theatre on and off for over thirty years now; in educational and professional settings. I have been designing lighting since the early 80's and have designed over 100 shows. Since 1997 I have been working with 5th to 12th grade student stage lighting crews. It’s been my experience that technical theatre students are some of the most highly motivated, dedicated, energetic, team-oriented, professional-acting and technically proficient students you can hope to work with. A teacher how professional and “on the ball” the students on my lighting crew were. Now I lead a professional crew who mentor and support the high school crews, and who work the outside events coming into the PACs.

When I am working with technical theatre students on a light crew, I am always pleased to see that, as well as increasing their proficiency in the curriculum content, by the end of their time with me, my students have further developed a broad range of skills that will benefit them throughout their lives, such as: creative thinking, teamwork, decision making, problem solving, perseverance, working with different personalities and standards, analytical thinking, self-responsibility and responsibility to others.

I am very much inspired with the prospect of being able to give the invaluable opportunities that I was given as a high school student to today’s students. I’m excited to be working with Theatre Arts teachers in junior high and senior high schools to bring these valuable experiences and learning opportunities to their students.