Faculty and Staff

In addition to his role as Technical Theatre Director, Louis Gagliano serves as the Visual & Performing Arts Department Director. Gagliano has worked behind the scenes for many years on Episcopal’s theatre productions, creating sets, establishing lighting plans and teaching an Upper School technical theatre class. He is well known for his lighting expertise and has done work with LSU’s Swine Palace and Theatre Baton Rouge. He has designed plans for productions everywhere from New York City, Chicago and Sag Harbor to North Carolina and Tennessee. Gagliano earned a master’s degree in lighting design from Ohio University. In 2019, Gagliano earned the BroadwayWorld New Orleans Best Lighting Design Award for his work on “Cabaret” at Theatre Baton Rouge.