Ayumu Poe Saegusa started stage lighting design in Tokyo. He moved into NYC in 2005 and became the resident lighting designer of HERE. He also works as a freelance lighting designer for shows ranging from NY Fringe Festival to Lincoln Center Festival in various countries from Japan to Europe to US. He is a strong collaborator for multimedia shows, opera and all sorts of puppet shows. His credits include Eat The Document (Kristin Marting, HERE, 2025), Rite of Spring (Basil Twist, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2017), and Book of Mountains and Seas (Basil Twist, Prototype, 2021), The Monkey King (Diane Paulus, San Francisco Opera, 2025). He has been in the Brooklyn College Theater MFA program since 2024. He founded Creative Machine Stage Lighting in 2016.
