Podcasts about assistant lighting designer

Join Cassie & Kathleen as they meet Bradley Taylor Arizona Opera's Lighting Supervisor and Assistant Lighting Designer.  Learn how the lightening department brings our shows to life through color and foot candles, and learn what a foot candle is.  Find out how Bradley came from a 3rd grade Mr. Bundles in Annie Jr, through Disney pyrotechnics, all the way to Arizona Opera.  Find out Bradley's dream theatre projects and learn why spicy snakes would be Bradley's nightmare!

In this episode we have an inspiring conversation with Tamykha Patterson, whose remarkable passion, drive and tenacity is something of a masterclass in how to go about getting a career in theatre.

This week we talk to Ginevra Lombardo, Lighting Designer. We talk to her about the Theatre Lighting Design field, what an Assistant Lighting Designer does, and all the fun toys Lighting Designers get to play with.   Enjoy the Show! Attribution:   ----more---- Logo:Theater Masks by Nikita Kozin / Licence: CC BY 3.0thenounproject.com/term/theater-masks/516808/ Ritzy Remix font by Nick Curtis - www.nicksfonts.com/index.html Music and Soundcello_tuning by flcellogrl / Licence: CC BY 3.0freesound.org/people/flcellogrl/sounds/195138/ Flute Play C - 08 by cms4f / Licence: CC0 1.0freesound.org/people/cms4f/sounds/159123/ "Danse Macabre - Violin Hook" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licence: CC BY 3.0 LicensesCC BY 3.0 - creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/CC0 1.0 - creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/  

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, the Lumen Brothers discuss everything from the Value of Graduate School to the Tesla Pig Option.  Join Steve, Stan, and David as they pontificate about The estimated cost of graduate school, Looking for value, Fun with piano boards, Living cheap in LA, Dealing with student debt, The six reasons to go to grad school, How important is the name of the school on your degree?, Tracking or Cue Only?, Mac or PC for lighting software, The Steam Leko, Who gets the final say... You or the Director?, Walking off of shows, and what the differences are between the Assistant Lighting Designer, the Associate Lighting Designer, and the Lighting Director.   Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense.    

Kelly O'Connell joined the team at YES after working for the past decade as a professional Production Manager, Lighting Designer and Associate Designer in NYC and nationally. She's had to build systems from the tightest off-broadway budget to a fully funded 6000 seat outdoor theater. Most recently Kelly has been a Production Manager for; The Altman Building, Image Technologies Corporation, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, The NYC Fringe Festival; an Associate Lighting Designer for; Ella (National Tour), Make Me A Song (NYC); and an Assistant Lighting Designer for The Fall of the House of Usher (Opera Francais de New York), The American Dream/The Sandbox (NYC) and The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (NYC). Kelly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatrical Lighting Design from Webster University and is a proud Gorlock. Outside of production, Kelly can be found running in Astoria Park, taking a figure drawing class, or obsessively checking her fantasy football team.

Anne McMills knows well how important the job of Assistant Lighting Designer is. She has been an Assistant and Associate LD on an incredible array projects over the last 15 years, from Broadway to Vegas to touring to television, and has employed many Assistant and Associate LDs on her own design projects all over the US. A unique and interesting combination of skills and knowledge are required for the job, but for all of its importance, there have been few reliable resources for learning about it. Anne has decided to change that by creating the Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit, a resource that provides description, instruction, paperwork, and strategies as well as offering the voices and points of view of dozens of other working professionals. Join your host Jason Marin and returning co-host Carrie Wood as we discuss Anne's career. We talked about her theatrical lighting and projection design, her work on with previous guest Fred Bock on The Tonight Show, her experience with architectural lighting design firm E Squared Lighting Design, and her role as head of Lighting Design at San Diego State University. We also discussed how her book came to be and how she fit writing it into her already busy schedule.

Don't adjust your dials...it's a Thursday BONUS episode with Anne E. McMills, author of the The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit. Anne is west coast based so she and Cory had a cross-continental chat about the new book. She tells us about the inspiration for the book, her favorite parts, and the new things she learned while interviewing dozens of working lighting designers and assistants. Much of the teachings, hints, and insider lingo in her book has never been documented in a textbook, but has only been taught through on the job training. Listen to her talk about the life of a working assistant and then go pick up a copy for yourself. It's short and sweet so enjoy!