Lydia Brinkmann Is a New York-based lighting designer, producer, and dramaturg dedicated to bringing new, vital, experimental works to life. She was a founding member of the Spade Collective in Brooklyn, NY and The Urban Bastard Collective In Norman, OK.

She is currently the resident Lighting Designer for Shades Dance Theater and is a resident techniclan at Frigld Theater NY and Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Her design work has been featured at Theater 71, IRT, Teatro Lated, Mason Hall, the Center at West Park, the Caddick Center for the Arts, Adult Fllm, and The Kraine Theater.