Production/Lighting Designers LeRoy Bennett, Roland Greil, Peter Morse, and Charles B “Cosmo” Wilson were recently invited to join the LIT Lighting Design Awards judge’s board for the upcoming 2022 awards. LIT Design Awards is an annual lighting design competition, based in Switzerland, where all entries are voted on by a grand jury panel composed of experienced and prominent academics, professionals, press members, entrepreneurs and key people from the international lighting design industry. The judges are tasked with recognizing creativity and innovation in the international fields of stage and concert lighting, Live Art and Theater lighting.
For this 6th consecutive year, the program is honoring the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers. With a fast-growing interest, and increase of projects submitted from the entertainment lighting industry, LIT has invited the new jury members to judge entries using their technical knowledge, extensive experience, eye for detail and their creative minds. This will be key to recognizing the designers pushing boundaries and identifying emerging talents who are bringing new ideas to the entertainment lighting industry. Winners will be announced at the end of November.
LeRoy Bennett
With decades of experience creating some of the biggest concert productions, LeRoy Bennett is a lighting and stage director who began his career designing stage productions for Prince. The success of Prince’s Dirty Mind tour led to a 14-year collaborative relationship and established Bennett as the vanguard of his field. Living in Los Angeles, Bennett is recognized worldwide as one of the most iconic innovators in cutting-edge production, lighting, and stage design. His resume boasts superstars from every music genre including Ariana Grande, The Who, The Game Awards, Queen, Madonna, David Bowie, Maroon 5, Lenny Kravitz, and Faith Hill/Tim McGraw.
Roland Greil
Roland Greil has worked with a number of the most significant artists in the entertainment industry, including: Adele, Phil Collins and the Rolling Stones, for whom he has collaborated with Woodroffe Bassett Design (WBD). Most recently Greil has been responsible for the co-lighting design of the current Rammstein stadium tour and Genesis’s The Last Domino? tour, also with WBD. Greil’s work is characterized by a professional, radically creative and innovative way of thinking. His experiences will be a tremendous asset to the jury panel.
Peter Morse
Peter Morse’s career spans more than 45 years in the entertainment industry. Morse is an Emmy Award-winning lighting designer who has worked with many of the world’s top artists, including: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Usher, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Andrea Bocelli, The Eagles, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Bette Midler, and many others. Morse has lent his illuminating talents to numerous productions and has always appreciated the expression of design as a sampling of art and culture.
Cosmo Wilson
Cosmo Wilson is a concert lighting designer and director. His illustrious career has found him having worked with more than 40 bands including AC/DC, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, the Scorpions and more.
“In the entertainment industry, lighting is a powerful storyteller; it helps people to connect to their emotions and bring life to a performance.” said Astrid Hébert, program director of the LIT Lighting Design Awards. “We are very honored to welcome Peter Morse, Charles B. ‘Cosmo’ Wilson, LeRoy Bennett and Roland Greil to the panel, having all inspirational careers and unique expertise.”
There are more than 40 jury members—spanning a wide variety of design professionals, lighting professionals and educators —who are devoted to designing and are specialists in their fields. The evaluation process is based on various judging criteria that are constantly adapted to new technical, social, economic and environmental requirements.
Sophya Acosta, a Light Art Director originally from Argentina and founder of the Sophya Acosta Lighting Design Studio, is also joining the jury panel bringing her knowledge in Light Art Installations. Already judge for a couple of years, Katia Kolovea—founder of “Archifos” and Art Lighting Director— as well as Broadway Lighting Designer Bradley King will also be reviewing the submissions in entertainment lighting categories.
The award welcomes submissions from professional, emerging designers and students and it will close on Oct. 22, 2022. To enter the LIT Lighting Design Awards register on the website: litawards.com
LIT Lighting Design Awards is a program under the 3C Awards, a leading organization curating and promoting design across the globe and part of Three C Group GmbH. The company represents today’s diversity and innovation in Design. More about Three C Group GmbH
