Ray OppenHeimer

Ray Oppenheimer is a San Francisco Bay Area based lighting designer, digital artist, educator, and creator who has been bringing his boundless curiosity, chimerical aesthetic, and sisyphean perseverance to live design and education since 2005. Ray graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in lighting design from San Francisco State University in the Fall of 2017. He also is an active company member with Mugwumpin and Shotgun Players. Ray believes that “We as a society are in desperate need of artists that help us approach and understand our world in an ethical, empathetic, and compassionate way. This is what I strive to do as a designer and artist. Through the exploration of binaural sound, 360 degree video, , Virtual Reality, lighting, video streaming/manipulation, and emerging technologies in cross discipline performances I draw into focus our greater relationships with technology and each other.”