Harold García

Lighting Designer · Scenic Creator

Harold Albert Garcia Sandoval

Space, light, and visuality as structure of the stage.

Selected Work

Projects

All
Dance
Theater
Opera
Musical
Concert
Interdisciplinary
Madame Butterfly

Opera

Madame Butterfly

Orquesta Filarmónica de Chihuahua

Lighting design for the full opera production. A work that demanded precise control of atmospheric light to underscore the emotional arc of Puccini's drama.

La Traviata

Opera

La Traviata

Orquesta Filarmónica de Chihuahua

Lighting design for Verdi's opera. Staging the transformation between opulence and decline through chromatic and spatial composition.

Il filosofo di campagna

Opera

Il filosofo di campagna

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte / Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Binational Italy–Mexico co-production of Galuppi's opera buffa. A scenic collaboration that brought together two traditions across a shared border.

El Murciélago

Opera

El Murciélago

Orquesta de Baja California — Dir. José Medina

Lighting design for Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss II). A comedic opera requiring dynamic light shifts that track the social and comedic architecture of the work.

Billy Elliot

Musical Theater

Billy Elliot

TRIFECTA / CANOSO, Tijuana

Lighting design for the large-scale musical production. Translating the emotional landscape of a coming-of-age story through structured scenic light.

Matilda

Musical Theater

Matilda

TRIFECTA / CANOSO, Tijuana

Lighting design for the musical adaptation. Navigating the tension between whimsy and darkness that defines the theatrical world of Roald Dahl.

Jesucristo Superestrella

Musical Theater

Jesucristo Superestrella

TRIFECTA / CANOSO, Tijuana

Lighting design for one of the most complex productions of the Andrew Lloyd Webber catalogue. A dramatic arc requiring precise emotional staging through light.

Conciertos Anuales de Ópera

Concert · 2018

Conciertos Anuales de Ópera

Sociedad Artística Sinaloense — Múltiples sedes, México

Scenic coordination for the annual opera concerts (2018–2024), presented across multiple venues throughout Mexico. Six years of sustained collaboration.

Grand Performances

Interdisciplinary

Grand Performances

Grand Performances, Los Angeles, California

Work presented at one of the leading free public arts series in the United States, situated in the California Plaza of downtown Los Angeles.

Líneas de Tiempo

Interdisciplinary

Líneas de Tiempo

Archivo Histórico de Tijuana / PECDA Baja California

Direction and production of an audiovisual series of interviews on the history and present of dance in Baja California, supported by PECDA.

Harold Albert García Sandoval

Guadalajara · Tijuana, Baja California

Harold Albert García Sandoval

Harold Albert García Sandoval is a lighting designer and scenic creator whose practice unfolds at the intersection of architecture, stage production, spatial design, and light.

His training in architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana has shaped a distinctive approach to the stage — one in which space is not a neutral container, but an active structure of relationships between body, light, materiality, and perception.

Over more than a decade, he has collaborated closely with artists, companies, and ensembles across Mexico, including Dédalo Artes Escénicas (Sonora), Alicia Sánchez y Compañía (Mexico City), Teatro en el Incendio, Teatro de León, and Lux Boreal (Baja California), among others.

His work has been presented at significant platforms of the national and international performing arts scene, including Grand Performances (Los Angeles), the Encuentro Nacional de Danza, the Festival Internacional Lila López, the Muestra Internacional Cuerpos en Tránsito, and the Premio Nacional de Danza Guillermo Arriaga.

Approach

Light as scenic language

Light is not approached merely as a technical tool, but as a compositional element within the scenic language.

Through light, space becomes dynamic — shaping atmosphere, perception, rhythm, and the visual dramaturgy of performance.

Space is understood as an active structure of relationships between body, light, materiality, and perception. Not a container. A grammar.

Research Project

Skené — A Space Inhabited by Light

Skené represents a natural continuation and critical deepening of Harold García's trajectory — a shift toward authorial research, translating the tools, questions, and experiences accumulated over more than a decade of scenic work.

The project synthesizes his interests in architecture, illumination, spatiality, and contemporary performance, positioning itself as an opportunity to consolidate a singular line of investigation and creation with the potential to contribute to the field of performing arts in Mexico.

As a space inhabited by light, Skené explores the threshold between the architectural and the scenic — where built space becomes a medium for perceptual and bodily experience.

Presence

Festivals & Collaborations

Festivals & Platforms

Grand Performances

Encuentro Nacional de Danza

Encuentro Nacional de Artes Escénicas

Festival Internacional Lila López

Muestra Internacional Cuerpos en Tránsito

Festival Entre Fronteras

Premio Nacional de Danza Guillermo Arriaga

Institutions

Orquesta Filarmónica de Chihuahua

Orquesta de Baja California

Sociedad Artística Sinaloense

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Instituto Sonorense de Cultura

Companies & Productions

Dédalo Artes Escénicas

Alicia Sánchez y Compañía

Lux Boreal

Teatro en el Incendio

TRIFECTA

CAMAFEO A.C.

Contact

Let's work together

Available for projects

Harold is available for lighting design projects in dance, theater, opera, musical theater, and interdisciplinary performance. He welcomes invitations for collaboration, residencies, and research initiatives.