Rowan Winterwood is a lighting designer, director, aerialist, technician, stage manager, educator and occasional actor.

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She is the Co-Artistic Director for Actors’ Theatre of Columbus, where she has been a staff member since 2019 and has co-directed Twelfth Night (2024) and directed Love's Labour's Lost (2023) and OR, by Liz Duffy Adams (2020). She also works with Actors' Theatre as the Head Lighting Designer/Engineer and as an Artist Educator.

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Rowan is a company member of Available Light Theatre and the Lighting Supervisor at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

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As a freelance lighting designer, she has worked with Available Light Theatre, The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio (formerly CATCO), Denison University, Columbus Children's Theatre, Evolution Theatre Company, Oyo Dance Company, The Wellington School, and more.

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In addition to her theatrical work, she is an amateur trapeze artist. She has trained at Esh Circus Arts, Movement Activities and Aerotique and is a recipient of two grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council in 2021 and 2022.

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Rowan graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Theatre Studies and Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences.