Ariel Benjamin is a lighting designer who has worked in theatre, dance, opera, and broadcast television. For the past decade, she has been a staff lighting designer for The Lighting Design group and worked for such clients as: CNN, Bloomberg, MTV, Yahoo!, and CNBC.  Currently, she is the lighting designer for the Tamron Hall Show on ABC, now in its fifth season, since its launch in 2019.  Ariel received her MFA in Theatre Design from the University of Maryland, her BA in Theatre Arts from SUNY New Paltz, and is a proud native of Brooklyn, NY.