Laurel Lawson
LAUREL LAWSON (flexible pronouns) is a choreographic collaborator, dancer, designer, and engineer with Kinetic Light. She is the primary costume and makeup designer, contributes technical and production design, and designs the wheelchairs that she and Alice Sheppard use in performance. She also leads access and technology initiatives, including, the company's approach to audio description, and Access ALLways, a holistic approach to disabled-led equitable access. Lawson began her professional dance career with Atlanta’s Full Radius Dance. In her independent and transdisciplinary practice, housed at Rose Tree Productions, her work includes both traditional choreography and novel ways of creating art through technology and design; in the creation of worlds and products experienced, installed, embodied, or virtual. Her work has been recognized with a Dance/USA Artist Fellowship, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation, and with a 2023 Creative Capital Award. Lawson is also CTO and co-founder of, a boutique engineering consultancy. A noted public speaker and teacher, she speaks on a range of technical topics as well as on leadership practice, accessibility, culture and equity, cultivating creativity and driving innovation.