Arden Fingerhut was born in 1945, and grew up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
[3] She married Dennis McHugh, and had a daughter Maude.
Fingerhut designed the lighting for dozens of Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including Da, Bent, Hay Fever, Plenty and Driving Miss Daisy.
In 1982 Fingerhut received an Obie Award for sustained excellence in lighting design.
[4] Fingerhut died of breast cancer at the North Adams Regional Hospital on May 13, 1994.