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Drawing & Sketching for the Stage
Many of the most successful scenic designs started as a napkin sketch. This course will guide you from the roughest pencil sketch through to refined multi point perspective front view renderings.
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Donald Holder, Special Guest
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...
Jennifer Tipton, Special Guest
Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well known for her work in theater, dance and opera and is currently represented on Broadway with her Tony Nominated Lighting Design for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Her recent work in opera includes Gounod’s ROMEO ET JULIETTE directed...
Ken Billington, Special Guest
Ken Billington started his career with the off-Broadway hit Fortune and Men's Eyes. Since then he has designed over 100 Broadway and 70 Off-Broadway shows including Chicago,Fame, Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs..., Footloose, Candide, Annie, Foxfire,Tru, Sweeney...
Planning Stage Lighting: Use a Script‑Based Shopping List for Better Designs
How Lighting Designers Read a Script: Building Your Lighting “Shopping List” When you plan stage lighting for a play or musical, the first step is not hanging instruments or programming cues. It is reading the script and building a script‑based lighting shopping list....
Seven Scripts for Teaching Lighting Design
A curated guide to comedy and mystery scripts — five classics and two from Shakespeare — that give students real lighting design problems to solve. Public domain options are free to use, publish, and perform without a license.
Trompe l’oeil Basics, Scenic Painting for the Stage
Trompe l’oeil is the scenic painter’s magic trick: with nothing more than paint, value, and a clear light source, you can turn a dead‑flat stage wall into believable architecture that seems to have real panels and molding. This stand‑alone article walks you and your...