Martha J Mountain

Freelance lighting designer for all aspects of live performance: theatre, dance, opera, music theatre, concerts, special events.

Founding Company Member and Resident Lighting Designer with Bowen McCauley Dance Company.

Accidental specialist in Theatre for Young Audiences.

STORY is key

Round House Theatre, Theater J, Olney Ballet Theatre, Kennedy Center TYA, many others.

some recent work…


Fire and Air
choreography: Lucy Bowen McCauley. music: “Fire and Air” by Patrick Soluri. Director: Alan Paul. Costumes: Chelsey Schuller. (2013) Premiere at Terrace Theatre, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Alina Collins & Chris Stinson in the 2018 premier of Laura Schellhardt’s Digging Up Dessa in the Family Theatre of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by Rives Collins, scenery by Deb Booth, costumes by Jenn Gillette, compositions by Debra Wicks La Puma, sound by Kenny Neal, projections by Patrick Lord, and properties by Audrey Bodek. (photo by Yassine El Mansouri)

Moriami Temidayo Akibu, Claire Saunders, Debora Crabbe, and Awa Sal Secka in the 2019 Round House Theatre production of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, directed by Nicole A. Watson. Dialect coaching, Kim James Bey, Dramaturgy, Gabreille Hoyt, scenery, Paige Hathaway, costumes, Ivania Stack, sound, Tosin Olufolabi, stage management, Che Wernsman. Ryan Rillette, Artistic Director. (not pictured: Shirine Babb, Theresa Cunningham, Kashayna Johnson, and Jade Jones)

Katie Kleiger and Jeremy Keith Hunter in the 2019 Everyman Theatre production of David Auburn’s Proof, directed by Paige Hernandez; scenery by Daniel Ettinger, costumes by David Burdick, sound by Sarah O’Halloran; Fights/Intimacy by Lewis Shaw. Stage Managers Cat Wallis and Jack Riley. Vincent M. Lancisi, Artistic Director. (not pictured: Megan Anderson and Bruce Randolph Nelson) Photo by DJ Corey