Laurie Olinder

Laurie Olinder is a multimedia designer, painter and photographer. Ms. Olinder has designed projections for many composers, and theater artists including- John Adams, The Kronos Quartet, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Gavin Bryars, Michael Gordon, Henryk Gorecki, David Lang, The Kronos Quartet, Maya Beiser, and Julia Wolfe among many others.

Recent projection design & video projects include: Vaya Vaya with vocalist Mahsa Vahdat with The Kronos Quartet, Wick Simmons’ Exquisite Drones with composers: inti figgis-vizueta, Conrad Tao, Jack McGuire. Coming up this Fall 2021 Video Design for Elysian Fields, Transience of Life.

Anatomy Theater (Red Cat Theater, LA Opera), The Sinking of the Titanic (Big Ears Festival), Brooklyn Youth Chorus with The Kronos Quartet (Roulette, Brooklyn), Silent Cranes (Roulette, Brooklyn) composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian, Bubbles (Roulette, Brooklyn NY) composed by Alexandra Vrebalov, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, David Lang (Montclair State), Brooklyn Village, composed by David T. Little with The Brooklyn Philharmonic & The Brooklyn Youth Chorus (Roulette Brooklyn New York), Persephone ( Brooklyn Academy of Music). Ridge Theater Lightning at Our Feet (Brooklyn Academy of Music) The Death of Klinghoffer Ridge Theater John Adams (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Laurie Olinder is a founding member of New York's Ridge Theater and has been recognized with an OBIE Award, a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award and an Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design in the Theater and a NYFA fellowship.