About Michael

Michael Bush is a lighting designer, programmer, and electrician based in Detroit, Michigan. He is currently pursuing his BFA in Lighting Design at Wayne State University and is expected to graduate in May 2027.

Michael is currently working as an Electrician/Spotlight operator at Barrington Stage Company for the summer of 2026. He has his hands on a large amount of different lighting equipment ranging from 1992 to present day. Michael has also worked with lighting designers and production electricians, such as Cory Pattak, Kelly Martin, Jeff D’Ambrosio, Solomon Weisbard, Shane Cassidy, David Lander, Wheeler Moon, Rae McCreary, and Reza Bahjat.

Michael also works as a Stagehand in his spare time at the Michael A. Guido Theater, based in Dearborn, Michigan. His job involves theatrical, concert, orchestral, corporate, and live production lighting design, scenic construction, and other stagehand work. He has also been a spotlight operator for multiple indoor and outdoor productions. Michael’s most recent production was for Stoop Lee, The War and Treaty, and Third Eye Blind at Dearborn Homecoming.

Michael has been devoted to lighting since high school, with the start of theatrical designs, now Michael wants to fulfill his dream on becoming a theatre and live entertainment lighting designer, programmer, and electrician around the world doing concerts, broadway productions, and much more!

Outside of the Theatre, Michael loves to spend time with family and friends and enjoys discussing lighting.

"The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.”

- Jean Rosenthal

"A light plot is not a light plot until it has coffee stains and cigarette burns on it."

- Tharon Musser