Nikki Heinlein

Nikki Heinlein

Scholarship Award Date: Winter 2003
Emphasis: Light Design

Nikki Heinlein is in her third year at The Ohio State University majoring in theatre with an emphasis on Light Design. She has been an electrician for the department on shows such as Wit, Elektra, Uncommon Clay, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Division Street, The Memory of Water, and Porcelain. She was an Assistant Production Electrician for Saint Joan of the Stockyards and the Production Electrician for Comic Potential. Nikki has been a designer for Mad Lab’s Theatre Roulette. She worked with Joey Schultz in Winter 2003 designing his senior distinction piece The Book of Boyhood in Ohio State’s New Works Lab.

This spring she will be designing for Collin Sweet’s senior distinction piece, A Light To Live By. She will also be the Assistant Production Electrician for the department’s production of The Fire Still Burns. In addition to working with the theatre department, Nikki is busy creating, with other “soon-to-be” senior women in the theatre department, a new theatre company - WET Co. (Women’s Explosive Theatre). She will also be moving to New York this summer to be in charge of props at Long Lake Summer Camp for the Performing Arts where they produce over 30 shows a summer.