Allen Hahn has designed lighting for New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and the Spoleto USA Festival, and internationally for Royal Danish Opera, Opera Zuid in The Netherlands as well as in Bilbao, Spain for OLBE-ABAO among others. Allen has designed a number of regional theater productions around the US, served as resident designer for the Juilliard Drama Division. He was lighting supervisor for Donald Byrd/The Group. He is currently a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he teaches lighting design.