ASHLEY JOHNSTONE KIDWELL
Since graduating with my MFA in lighting design from San Diego State University in 2009, I have worked with San Diego based design company, Nautilus Entertainment Design as a staff lighting designer.
With Nautilus I have designed everything from live events & exhibits to museums & cruise ships.
Live event designs include business & VIP meeting events as well as new product launches for General Motors (notably the 2015 Chevrolet Cruz launch in Detroit). Other brands for which I have been a part of the lighting team include Toyota, Lexus, and Hewlett Packard.
From 2010 to 2019 I was the lead lighting designer for the General Motors booths at the Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, and New York Auto Shows.
My architectural lighting credits include all the public spaces (bars, restaurants, lounges etc.) for Holland America Cruise Lines (Koningsdam, Niuew Statendam, and Rotterdam) as well as designs for several venues on Carnival Vista.
In 2010 I was associate lighting designer for the Qualcomm 25th Anniversary Museum, located at their San Diego campus. For this design, Nautilus won the regional and national IES Awards of Merit.
Live event designs include business & VIP meeting events as well as new product launches for General Motors (notably the 2015 Chevrolet Cruz launch in Detroit). Other brands for which I have been a part of the lighting team include Toyota, Lexus, and Hewlett Packard.
From 2010 to 2019 I was the lead lighting designer for the General Motors booths at the Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, and New York Auto Shows.
My architectural lighting credits include all the public spaces (bars, restaurants, lounges etc.) for Holland America Cruise Lines (Koningsdam, Niuew Statendam, and Rotterdam) as well as designs for several venues on Carnival Vista.
In 2010 I was associate lighting designer for the Qualcomm 25th Anniversary Museum, located at their San Diego campus. For this design, Nautilus won the regional and national IES Awards of Merit.
Since 2019 I have been the associate faculty teacher of DRAM 141: Lighting for Theatre, Television & Film, and in the spring of 2023 taught DRAM 139: Stage & Concert Management at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, CA. As well as teaching these classes I have mentored student lighting designers and electricians and designed several shows. MCC show credits include These Shining Lives (2017); All My Sons (2019); theatre lighting supervision for the filmed production of Working (2021); Flint (2022); Merry Wives of Windsor (2022); Addams Family (2023)