05/23/2026
Say hello to Rachael Cady, the lighting designer of .
Rachael’s designs have been seen all over the country. Her works at Kansas City Repertory Theatre include Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt 2B; Frankenstein; Frida...A Self Portrait; Of Mice and Men; Brother Toad; Man in Love; Evita; Sunday in the Park with George; Sticky Traps; A Christmas Carol (2010-2018, 2021); When I Come to Die; The Glass Menagerie; Circle Mirror Transformation; Sticky Traps and Incognito. Additional works include Frida...A Self Portrait (Portland Center Stage); Oklahoma! (Theatreworks); The Underpants, A Perfect Wedding, Shake Rattle and Roll and Smokey Joe’s Café (Florida Studio Theatre); Fellowship! (New York Musical Festival); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Theatre League); and Love, Janis (Zach Theatre). Her other Kansas City credits include The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Tally’s Folly, Tally and Son, 5th of July and The Cripple of Inishman at the Kansas City Actors Theatre. As the resident designer for the Unicorn Theatre (1995-2010), Rachael designed over 50 shows from 1995to 2010.
Performances for Frida...A Self-Portrait begin June 6. Get tickets to the production at: www.unionartscenter.org/frida-a-self-portrait/.