Brandon Stirling Baker

Brandon Stirling Baker is an American lighting designer working internationally in ballet, opera and theatre. Baker received a 2024 Tony Award nomination for Best Lighting Design in a Musical for his design of Illinoise on Broadway.

His lighting can be seen on Broadway and in the repertories of New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Miami City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Berlin Staatsballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Houston Ballet, Boston Ballet, Semperoper Ballet Dresden, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Cincinnati Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Nashville Ballet, BalletMet, and Opera Philadelphia. Baker has designed over 30 premieres worldwide for choreographer Justin Peck, and works frequently with choreographers Jamar Roberts and William Forsythe. He received a 2019 Knight of Illumination award for his work on Justin Peck's Reflections at the Houston Ballet.

Baker studied at the California Institute of the Arts, Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, Scotland, and the Yale School of Drama as a Special Research Fellow.