Super Saturday 2015 held at NYU

At 8:00 am on Saturday, January 10th, 2015, the tenth-annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday all-day seminar took place at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The school is located in the heart of Greenwich Village.

Once again, this popular annual seminar is designed for everyone involved in stage, architectural, or entertainment lighting. The sessions are not too basic nor too advanced. Everyone who attends will benefit. The intense all day seminar will be led by theatre lighting professionals leading sessions about inspiration, training, product, and just doing it.

Industry leading manufacturers and technical specialists demonstrated equipment. Broadway lighting designer Jennifer Tipton presented the keynote opening session.

For more information, please visit www.stageseminars.com or contact Scott Parker at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 1-866-832-4390. Stage Lighting Super Saturday is supported in part by Media Partner, Lighting&Sound America magazine, www.lightingandsoundamerica.com.

Jennifer Tipton, Keynote Speaker

Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater and opera. In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University. While performing as a dancer and rehearsal mistress, she noticed the importance of lighting, and studied dance lighting with Thomas Skelton, becoming his assistant. Her first lighting design for Broadway was in 1969 for Our Town, and her most recent in 2013

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Computer Aided Design

While we thing it's very important for every designer and technician to be able to draw with a pencil on paper, the current practice is to create light plots using the computer. This session will introduce you to Computer Aided Design, aka CAD and how we use it, the computer, to draft light plots.

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