Lena Zimskind is a senior at Burbank High School in Los Angeles CA, where she is the student head of lighting design, as well as a crew lead, in the Stagecraft Tech program. In previous years, she was a stage manager and spotlight operator, before finding her passion in lighting design. She looks forward to studying stage lighting design and theater in college before pursuing a career in live entertainment lighting design. 

Outside of school, Lena was Technical Director and sound and lighting designer for a production at the legendary Zombie Joe's Underground alternative theater company and interned at the Volt Lites lighting and production services company in L.A. This past summer, she completed the Advanced Lighting Skills Workshop for high school students at the Studio School of Design in New York.