Tláloc is so happy to be returning to Columbus Opera for Madama Butterfly Tláloc’s lighting, scenic, and projection designs have been seen at Pittsburgh Opera, Opera On the James, TheatreZone, Opera Naples, Castleton Festival, Brevard Music Center, Toledo Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Todi Music Fest (Portsmouth, VA), Opera Roanoke, Shreveport Opera, Guerilla Opera (Boston, MA), Crested Butte Music Festival, and DiCapo Opera (NYC). Some of these include: The Long Walk, Glory Denied, Hydrogen Jukebox, Baby Doe, Sondheim on Sondheim, Cenerentola, Carmen, Street Scene, Zauberflöte, Amadeus, 9 to 5, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sweeney Todd, South Pacific, Romeo et Juliet, Scalia/Ginsburg (world premier) Ulysses, Pirates of Penzance, Così fan Tutte, Gallo (world premier), Giver of Light (world premier), Bovinus Rex (world premier), Heart Of a Dog, Man of La Mancha, Salome, La Bohème, The Marriage of Figaro, Madame Butterfly, The Crucible, Eugene Onegin, The Daughter of the Regiment, Il Trovatore, La traviata, Falstaff, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Don Giovanni, Footloose, and Hairspray, among many others. He has a BFA in Performance Production from Cornish College of the Arts, and an MFA in Design from NYU/Tisch. He was the 2002 Allen Lee Hughes Lighting Fellow at Arena Stage in Washington, DC.