Super Saturday 2017 held at NYU
At 8:00 am on Saturday, January 14th, 2017, the twelfth-annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday all-day seminar took place at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the heart of Greenwich Village. Once again, this popular annual seminar involved those wishing to learn about stage, architectural, or entertainment lighting. The sessionswere not too basic nor too advanced. The intense all day seminar was led by theatre lighting professionals presenting sessions covering inspiration, training, product, and just doing it.
For this year Jennifer Tipton came up with a great idea. She said "This year I was hoping to bring several lighting designers together to be on a panel first thing and then spend the morning through lunch so that they could chat with young people at coffee and lunch." Howell Binkley and Don Holder joined Jennifer and the session was fantastic.
Richard Pilbrow 
shared his research and design work for his recent My Fair Lady, directed by July Andrews. What a thrill it was to hear about his process. His wonderful associate designer Michael Gottlieb added info from his point of view.
Jim van Bergen’s clients include Big Apple Circus, Blue Man Group, Metropolitan Opera, NY Philharmonic, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, Martha Graham Dance Company. He’s designed sound for more than two dozen productions for Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center, and over 200 original designs including All in the Timing, Bunny Bunny, Cambodia Agonistes, and Nunsense as well as the Broadway revival of True West, tours of ART, It Ain’t Nothing but the Blues, and The Harlem Nutcracker.
Howell Binkley (Lighting Designer): Broadway works include: Hamilton (2016 Tony Winner), A Bronx Tale, After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), A Christmas Story, Magic/Bird, Jesus Christ Superstar, How To Succeed... starring Daniel Radcliffe (2011 Tony nomination,) Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, All About Me, Memphis, West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), Guys and Dolls, Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, In The Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Crybaby, Xanadu, LoveMusik, The Farnsworth Invention, Bridge & Tunnel, Jersey Boys (Tony Award Winner), Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Avenue Q, Golda’s Balcony, Hollywood Arms,
Via Wikipedia: Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera, and dance based in New York. He has been nominated for eleven Tony Awards, winning the 1998 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for The Lion King. He won a second Tony in 2008 for the revival of South Pacific.[1] His lighting design for Ragtime has been nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical.[2] Additional Broadway credits include: Big Fish, Annie (revival), Golden Boy, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Arcadia, The Motherf**cker With The Hat, Promises, Promises, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, Movin' Out, The Times They Are a-Changin', A Streetcar Named Desire, Holiday,Cyrano de Bergerac, and Prelude to a Kiss.[1]He was the theatrical lighting designer for seasons one and two of the NBC-Universal Television Series: 'Smash.'
Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well known for her work in theater, dance and opera. Her recent work in opera includes Gounod’s ROMEO ET JULIETTE directed by Bart Sher at the Metropolitan. Her recent work in dance includes Alexei Ratmansky’s SHOSTAKOVICH TRILOGY for American Ballet Theater and the San Francisco Ballet. In theater her recent work includes Richard Nelson’s first Gabriel Family plays at the New York Shakespeare Festival in New York. Her recent work on Broadway is THE TESTAMENT OF MARY starring Fiona Shaw. Ms. Tipton teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. She received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003 and in April 2004 the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008 she was made a United States Artists “Gracie” Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow.
Richard is a pioneer of modern stage lighting in Britain and his work has been seen in London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Moscow. He was the first British lighting designer to design the lighting for a Broadway musical, Zorba. He was the lighting designer of the Hal Prince hit revival of Show Boat on Broadway (Drama Desk Award, Outer Circle Critics Award-lighting), in Toronto (Dora Award - Outstanding Lighting) and on tour throughout the US (NAACP Award for Lighting).
Discussed already during our day has been delivering sound from our performers to the audience. This session covers how to play back sound effects to enhance your productions. Whether it's rain, thunder, (lightning itself doesn't actually have a sound) car horns, doorbells, etc. this session covers hardware and software solutions in delivering those sounds.
will speak about his work on My Fair Lady's 60th anniversary. Richard tells Super Saturday "I researched the Abe Feder MFL for my lighting a 60th Anniversary re-creation of the original production: Oliver Smith, Cecil Beaton, Abe Feder — directed by Julie Andrews at the Sydney Opera House last August"