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Featuring leading practitioners of the art, craft, and business of entertainment lighting, we serve the need for user-driven information in the hope of creating a forum for sincere, unscript...

Jeff Croiter is back on the show! This time, we discussed the musical Bandstand – Jeff explained what he did, why and how he did it, and how...

Jeff Croiter has had quite a career thus far. While best known for his Broadway lighting designs, his work on theater, dance, and opera has...

Jeff McCrum of Fisher Dachs Associates is back with us for more discussion about how new venues are built, how old venues are renovated, and...

How does a new venue go from concept to completion? Who asks the key questions and makes the decisions that the venue’s utility hinges on? W...

We are back for more with LA-based theatrical lighting designer Elizabeth Harper! This time we got to get into the details of her work on th...

Elizabeth Harper chooses to do great work that she can be proud of, to focus on important new plays, and do it all in L.A. Her love for art...

Bill is back on the show with even more information about how he creates lighting for television, how the TV business works, and the protoco...

There are few people who know more about lighting for television than Bill Berner. Over the course of a nearly 40 year career, he’s lit coun...

The Squintress has returned, and we are thrilled to have her back on the podcast! This time, we discussed her extensive experience handling...

Jason Badger is back on the show! We talked about his work as projections programmer on a stunning production of Ring Cycle at the Los Angel...

Many lighting designers have been tasked with lighting a corporate campus, but it’s rare for that campus to include rides, attractions, and...

Nashville is the place to go when you want to become a country music star, but when Susan Rose got there, she found her life’s work waiting...

Mike Grabowski is on the show by listener request! He’s a Senior Lighting Designer at LDG , a member of Local USA 829 , and has lit innumera...

Is six circuit multicable code compliant? Why do LED fixtures put load on neutral? What did old-time producers dislike even more than organi...

It’s the 50th episode of Casting Light, and we’re doing something different this time. With our business in flux and many people looking for...
Multitalented and multi-genre, Hillary Knox has found himself involved in fascinating projects throughout his career. Growing up in Nashvill...

Tony Bonilla is back on the podcast! We had so much to discuss during our interview, we had to separate it into two parts. This time, we’re...

Fifteen years ago, Tony Bonilla was already an experienced rigger, having toured with theatrical productions and rigged special events. Seei...

Coming off a run of standout work, including designing lighting for Aleshea Harris’ What To Send Up When It Goes Down , Donja R. Love’s one...

Our guest Christopher Robinson has a lot going on, or at least did until the business shut down this past March. His position as the associa...

The Casting Light Podcast is back, and we’re talking with Mike Wood of Mike Wood Lighting Design . Mike is based in Nashville, TN, and works...

Scott has worked with cowboys, aliens, the Whos down in Whoville, recording stars, and marvelous superheroes of all kinds, and now we're luc...

Even before founding Vibrant Design with his wife Ellen Waggett, Chris Landy already had a colorful career as a TV lighting designer. With a...

We're back for more from Pete Borchetta in the second half of our interview with him. He's been with Altman Lighting for just over a year, b...

Pete Borchetta, who's worked everywhere from the Far East to the far end of Ashburton Ave in Yonkers, is kicking things off in the first par...

We are back for part two of an interview with "The best creator of mood, time and place through light in the contemporary theatre," as per t...

There are few who know more about lighting plays than Dennis Parichy, whose career has brought him into close collaboration with giants of A...
When a production takes place in a 300 meter long tent that has to be set up with almost no margin for error, or spreads across hundreds of...

We want you to join us in the room where it happens with David Arch. David is a multi-talented lighting director and lighting programmer, an...

A great light show has been an element of the most well-loved and successful nightclubs and music venues since Jules Fisher and Paul Marantz...

Lighting and production design for houses of worship combines the design needs and skills for theater, concerts, and television in a new seg...

What happens when a fixture is discontinued? Normally manufacturers will continue support for a given length of time, but no matter how long...

Kelly O'Connell joined the team at YES after working for the past decade as a professional Production Manager, Lighting Designer and Associa...

We're back for more with the Director of Lighting at the UNCSA School Of The Arts Design and Production Department! This time, we discuss an...

Just over 40 years ago, Norman Coates took a trip from Philadelphia to New York to see a production of Waiting For Godot. Before the show wa...

On December 27, 2015, the legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. passed away at the age of 93. He lived an incredible life, includ...

Hailing from Las Vegas, Chris Lose has had a varied and consistently interesting 17-year career in the business. He found theater in high sc...

Randy is the Senior Accounts Manager at Morpheus Lights, which is both a major production rental shop as well as the US distributor for Ayrt...

Miriam Crowe has been a lighting designer for nearly 20 years, and has worked at every level of the business, from the Fringe Festival to Br...

When Chris Conti became a PRG Product Manager in 2008, he became part of a team responsible for moving the goalposts on the state of the art...

When Vickie Claiborne became the head lighting programmer for the opening and closing ceremonies during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, she was...

In order for us to go through the process of creating lighting for theatricals, events, broadcasts, films, and performances, any number of o...

Brad Schiller was there as the job of Automated Lighting Programmer emerged, and he has influenced the job's evolution over the last 25 year...

Today's televised events tend to lean heavily on video; in some cases, 80% of the scenery is actually a video surface. How does the content...

How are complex automated lighting fixtures conceived, designed, and built? Our final guest of Season One, Bobby Hale, has some answers to t...

Anne McMills knows well how important the job of Assistant Lighting Designer is. She has been an Assistant and Associate LD on an incredible...

To help new people them find their way, Al Ridella and CJ Wescott of 4 Wall Entertainment reached out to DJs and nascent production companie...

Back when he was completing a double major in theater and broadcasting, Fred Bock dreamed that he'd be able to make 30 Rockefeller Center hi...

Concerts and theater share many things, from the uniqueness of any single performance to the dedication of their artists to the techniques u...

It was 1977, and Mike was headed to a Kiss concert at Madison Square Garden. The audience blinders came up, 20,000 people cheered, and Mike...