Martin Aronstein (November 2, 1936 – May 3, 2002) was an American lighting designer whose Broadway career spanned thirty-six years.
[1] In 1957, following a performance sponsored by the New York Shakespeare Festival, he approached a backstage worker and asked if he could help break down the set.
Additional Broadway credits include The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Tiny Alice, The Impossible Years, Cactus Flower, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, How Now, Dow Jones, George M!, Promises, Promises, Play It Again, Sam, The Gingerbread Lady, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, The Incomparable Max, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, My Fat Friend, The Ritz, The Grand Tour, Noises Off, Benefactors, and The Twilight of the Golds.
In 1977 Aronstein relocated to Southern California, where he designed for the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theater, and the Pasadena Playhouse on a regular basis.
He was also an adjunct professor at the theater school of the University of Southern California, and designed for the San Francisco Ballet, the St. Louis Municipal Opera, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.