Alejandro Fajardo is a Colombian artist based in New York City. He works primarily as a lighting designer for theater, dance, and live events, although he has recently expanded his role as production designer for a variety of theatrical and immersive experience projects. After several years of working exclusively in the performing arts, Alejandro began expanding his work into other industries. He has designed and coordinated the lighting for a variety of shows for New York Fashion Week through IMCD Lighting and Rob Ross Design (2015-2019). Alejandro also works with several music festivals creating environmental lighting and custom light art installations through Rob Ross Design. He is heavily involved in the Dance industry: with New York City Center, he works as the Lighting Director for the Flamenco Festival, and Associate Lighting Director for Fall for Dance Festival. He has toured as Lighting Supervisor for Lucinda Childs, Wendy Whelan, and Maya Beiser’s The Day, Brian Brooks’ (Prelude, Wilderness, Company Rep), and Rashaun Silas & Charles Atlas’ Tesseract.
Recent theatre credits include Public Servant and The Healing (Theatre Breaking Through Barriers), Cherie Dre (Danspace Projects, APAP), /wē/ and fôr (Michiyaya Dance), Ursa Minor, Sueño, Carnal, and No Baby (The New School COPA), Climate Change: an Opera? (Rough Draft Festival, LPAC, BRIC), The Last Five Years and Levity (Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, Big Sky, MT), SUPERHERO (Southern Theater, Minneapolis), Millie (short film), She She She (Hook & Eye Theater, nominated for outstanding lighting design NY Innovative Theater Awards), The Space Between the Letters (The Civilians R&D, Public Theater UTR incoming), Me Hago Falta (Suku Dance Lab), Hamlet (Bonneville Theatre Company), The Pool Skimmer (Clubbed Thumb/Playwright Horizons Directing Fellowship), what’s this called, this spirit (Ars Nova and Dixon Place), The Rake’s Progress (Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia), Bareknuckle (Gleason’s Boxing Gym for Vertigo Theatre Company), Once on This Island (Pace University).
Alejandro began taking and developing photographs as a child and has continued to have a passion for photography ever since. Alejandro has worked in both Digital and Analog photography, and has extensive experience developing both black and white film and color film in a darkroom. Alejandro is a contributing photographer for Chance Magazine, who he joined at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial to cover and photograph the exhibits and performances. His photographs can be seen on his website and on instagram @alejofaj and @reculphotography.