Rowan Winterwood is a lighting designer, electrician, director, 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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At the Wexner Center, she oversees lighting for a 2,600 seat auditorium, a 200 seat black box and select gallery exhibits. She supports national tours in Mershon Auditorium and frequently busks musical acts including the Wex's jazz series. She advances large-scale dance, opera and theatre performances, renting equipment, overseeing union crews and programming for companies such as Doug Varone & Dancers, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Beth Morrison Projects and more.

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As a freelance lighting designer, she has designed lights for acclaimed local theatre companies such as Available Light Theatre, Actors' Theatre of Columbus, and Columbus Children's Theatre. She also designs at schools, colleges and universities such as Denison University, Ohio Wesleyan University, The Wellington School and Pickerington High School Central where she often has the opportunity to teach aspiring designers and technicians. 

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She served for two years as the Co-Artistic Director of Actors’ Theatre of Columbus, where she co-directed Twelfth Night (2024), adapted and directed Love's Labour's Lost (2023) and directed Or, by Liz Duffy Adams (2020).

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In 2025, she attended electrician training by Richard Cadena (Electrics for Entertainment, Networking for Entertainment) and rigging training provided by USITT (Foundations of Entertainment Rigging).

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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.