Collaborative Design and Creation

Stephen Pruitt has been working as a designer, photographer, installation artist, writer, director and performer for over thirty years. Based in Austin, he is a lighting and production designer for long list of dance and performance companies including Forklift Danceworks, Theatre Heroes, Tapestry Dance Company, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, Allysen Hooks Projects, Dance Carousel, Cirque Vida, Austin Dance Festival and a company member with the Rude Mechs.

In the past couple years, much of Stephen's time has been spent touring with Theatre Heroes with their multi-media shows based on Jack London's 'Call of the Wild' and Kenneth Grahame's 'Wind in the Willows'. In it's first season of touring ('25-'26) 'Wind in the Wilows' was seen by almost 50,000 children and adults in 88 shows across 42 cities. 

Some of Stephen's past design collaborations have included Cirque du Soleil, Old Kent Road Dance, A'lante Flamenco, Andrea Ariel Dance, Blue Lapis Light Aerial Dance, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Performa Dance, St. Edward's University, Conspirare, Small Plates Dance Festival, Trouble Puppet Theater Company, Salvage Vanguard Theater, and many others.

When not working in theaters, he tends to be off in the desert or the wilderness with a camera.