Herrick Goldman
Founder & Principal Designer
An award-winning designer of
theatre, dance,
and live events.
Herrick is the founder and principal designer of Evoke Collaborative and HG Lighting Design.
Featured Project
Puffs - Off-Broadway
Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic is a hilarious Off-Broadway show that ran at New World Stages for over two years. The play portrays a certain famous wizard school from the perspective of the slightly nerdy and not-so-famous house called Puffs.
Featured Project
Alicia Keys Unstaged xR Performance
The Grammy award-winning artist teamed up with American Express for the brand’s virtual version of the UNSTAGED music series to bring fans an intimate high production affair in the comfort of their homes.
It was her way of safely celebrating the release of her new self-titled album ALICIA.
We tell stories.
An award-winning designer.
Herrick has been honored with a 2020 Drama Desk Nomination for Einstein's Dreams, the 2018 SALT award for Wizard of Oz at Syracuse Stage, Henry Hewes nominations for Rooms a Rock Romance and Falling For Eve, ISES Big Apple award for Best Event Lighting, The Live Design Excellence award for Best Theatrical Lighting Design, as well as the inaugural Live Design Redden award for excellence in theatrical design.
He has been designing professionally for more than 30 years with numerous off-broadway and regional shows to his credit, hundreds of corporate events, permanent installs at Madame Tussauds NY and Las Vegas, a water feature at Laguardia Airport, and tours. He has also taught lighting design at MIT. Herrick has created art on every continent except Antarctica.
Recent corporate events include the United Health Group DC, Twitter - New Front, the DGA Honors, and Fox Upfront After Party in Central Park for Kinetic.
Favorite designs include: Jasper in Deadland, Rooms, Godspell, A Chorus Line, and The Who’s Tommy 15th anniversary at Broadway’s August Wilson.
Evoke Collaborative grew out of his desire to do more art and more challenging projects with the talented people he works with the most.
Herrick is a member of USA/IATSE 829.
His whole portfolio can be seen at hglightingdesign.com.