photo credit: Lisa Fairhall

image description: A young woman (Riva) in a blue tank top and black leggings squats down as she gleefully pets a pig (Wilbur)

about

Riva Fairhall is a New York based Lighting Designer. She can be found downtown designing musicals and absurdist plays, on and off Broadway assisting other brilliant Lighting Designers, and in Inwood caring for her small menagerie of pet rats.

Constantly striving to lower her shield of ‘contempt prior to investigation’ in life and in work, she has discovered the value of sitting in discomfort as a human and in the theatre. She endeavors to be of joyful service and comes to every table as her full authentic self, embracing all corners of the humanity of her fellow collaborators as well as the characters in the stories she is privileged with the task of illuminating.

contact her at fairhall.riva@gmail.com