Kaileigh Krysztofiak

Kaileigh is a Lighting Designer based in Ontario, Canada. She has designed for the Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Why Not Theatre, Punctuate Theatre, The Grand Theatre, Factory Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Nightwood Theatre, Carousel Players, Mirvish, Drayton Entertainment, Crow’s Theatre, Storefront Theatre, Soulpepper, The Charlottetown Festival, The Next Stage Festival, Toronto Fringe and Summerworks.

​Kaileigh has been an Assistant Designer at the Canadian Opera Company (2 seasons), and the Stratford Festival (6 seasons) and has designed for musicians Elizabeth Shepherd, Nagata Shachu, and Plants and Animals.

For the past five seasons, Kaileigh has managed multiple award-winning “Lights On Stratford” a winter festival that transforms Stratford’s heritage downtown and parks system with luminous art and interactive light installations. At the same time, she has been busy designing and running lights for the Stratford Festival. Kaileigh is currently designing “A Winter’s Tale” and “Forgiveness” for the 2025 season at the Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford Festival.

Kaileigh is an alumna and instructor of the National Theatre School of Canada, a two-time Dora nominee and has been nominated for the 2020 Pauline McGibbon Award.

She is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and represented by Ian Arnold at Catalyst TCM.