MARK MCCULLOUGH

McCULLOUGH--Mark. Mark Lamons McCullough, 62, of Charlottesville, VA, died peacefully at home on December 31, 2025, after a two-year illness with glioblastoma. Mark worked as a lighting designer at the world's great opera houses, the West End, and on and off-Broadway. He created productions for the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Bolshoi Theater, Opera National du Rhin (Strasbourg), Royal Opera House (London), Teatro Real (Madrid), Vienna State Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Lincoln Center Theater, The New York Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare Theatre Company DC, among many others. Frequent collaborators included lifelong friends Francesca Zambello, Peter J. Davison, and Eric Sean Fogel. Early in his career, Mark fell in love with dancer Theresa Carney, whom he married in 1992. The family grew to include children Matthew and Hope, who were his greatest pride and joy. During the pandemic, Mark joined the team at Ace Contracting, a community-oriented homebuilding firm; although demand for his work in the theater soon returned, he was energized by the prospect of a new vocation. Mark is remembered for his curiosity, creativity, and relentless attention to detail, tempered with humor and kindness. The family requests any memorial contributions go to the National Brain Tumor Society, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, or The Glimmerglass Festival.