Duane Schuler has achieved national and international acclaim as a theatrical lighting designer for the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Scala, San Francisco Opera, Salzburg Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Paris Opera and American Ballet Theatre. He recently designed Beatrice and Benedict for the Glyndebourne Festival and will be designing Cendrillon at the Metropolitan Opera next season. He is also a founding partner of Schuler Shook, the theater planning and architectural lighting design firm (Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, Melbourne), that has been responsible for many theater designs and renovations including Seattle’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York.