Margaret C. Eisenhauer (A 1983)

2008 Alumni Achievement (Merit) Award

Bio

For Peggy Eisenhauer light is more than just illumination — it has a musical quality and rhythm. She came to the medium quite early, at age 13, in fact.

"I started to hang around this theater company in Nyack, New York, and they sent me to the lighting board for a rehearsal and showed me what to do with the little controller. I could see the flow and bloom of light on stage connected to my operation of these controllers and it was kind of musical in a sense," Eisenhauer described. "As a serious piano student I found a very similar emotional flow in controlling lighting as I did in my musical studies."