Michael Palumbo has designed lighting for numerous productions over the years at various Bay Area theaters, including TheatreWorks, Opera San Jose, Teatro Vision, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Sacramento Opera, and Palo Alto Players. Some of the shows he has lit are All My Sons, Paggliacci, Santos & Santos, Elizabeth Rex, Anna in the Tropics, Killer Joe, The Barber of Seville, Othello, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Faust, Picnic, M Butterfly, The Light in the Piazza, La Boheme, Theophilus North, and My Children! My Africa!.