Michael K. Maag is the Lighting Department Manager at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Michael is also the chief automated lighting programmer and visualist at OSF. Michael currently performs improvisational video with the group Sonoluminescence. Before his 9 years at the OSF he was the Master Electrician at Seattle Repertory Theatre and a freelance lighting designer.
          Michael has worked as a lighting designer, master electrician, programmer, visualist, and pyrotechnician from Florida to Washington and just about everywhere in between.He is a member of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology, and IATSE Local #15. Michael holds a BS in Technical Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado.
           In August of 2003 Michael was training for a bicycle race in rural Oregon and was struck by a car. A spinal cord injury at T-9 vertebrae has left him paralyzed. He now gets to work with wheels under him all the time. Michael was an early recipient of a grant from Behind the Scenes. They contributed to Michael’s motorized wheelchair, which he gratefully uses like the smallest electric car in town.