Rowan Winterwood is a lighting designer, electrician, director, aerialist, technician, stage manager, educator and occasional actor. She is a company member of Available Light Theatre and she is 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, Actors' Theatre of Columbus, The Columbus Commons, 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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She served for two years as the Co-Artistic Director for Actors’ Theatre of Columbus, where she co-directed Twelfth Night (2024) and directed Love's Labour's Lost (2023) and Or, by Liz Duffy Adams (2020).

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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 three grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council in 2021, 2022 and 2025.

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