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Josh Damrauer
Owner, Operator, Designer
JD Productions Intelligent Stage Lighting
Harrisburg, PA
717.215.2025
Jdproductions03@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/jdproductions

Services Provided:
Intelligent stage lighting.
Clients:
Well over 100 local bands from the Central PA area as well as Anderson Audioand Eslinge Lighting. Ran lighting for The Gin Blossoms, The Staring Line, Less Than Jake and a few more nationals.

Quote:
“Need a flashlight?”

Bio:
I am 28 years old, my fiancée Rachel works with me when we do a show. I have had this rig for three years, and I’ve been in stage work since I was in 6th grade.

Hobbies:
I play ice and roller hockey. I love golf (but am not very good). I am a sucker for learning new things and checking out how other creative lighting designers do their rig.

Equipment:
I have a basic rig: 9 Pocket Scans, 16 PAR 56s, 4 PAR 64s, 9 strobes, DMX Operator, Stage Setter 16 and a haze generator. I love the size of the Pocket Scans for the clubs I am in.

Essential: My fiancée.

Jonathan Hirsh
Lighting Designer
Black Horse Productions
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
661.993.5280
jhirsh@jonathanhirsh.com
www.jonathanhirsh.com

Services Provided:
Lighting design

Clients:
DK Ibomeka’s first music video, “Someone to Love Me” wrapped production August 25 in Toronto. I was co-director and LD. Pics can be found at www.jonathanhirsh. com.

Personal Quote:
“If I stop now I won’t have to stop later.” –Guillermo Fadanelli

Bio:
I’m based out of Toronto, Ontario and Valencia, California and do work in television and theatre. I’ve been a part of the production team of “The Doodlebops” since its inception. “The Doodlebops” is the number-one rated pre-school TV show in Disney Channel USA and CBC. I currently specialize in lighting design at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

Hobbies:
I consider myself a bad movie aficionado. I enjoy hanging out with my friends and occasionally some photography.

Equipment:
Anything I can get my hands on, but mostly the MA Lighting grandMA line of consoles.

Essential:
A smile—‘cause nobody likes an a–hole.

Jerry Wilson
Owner
Wild Lites Exciting Lighting
Bowling Green, KY
270.781.8815
wilsonz@mindspring.com
www.wildlites.com

Services:
 Automated lighting, special effects

Clients:
The Kristen Hickman Dancers, the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra, “Beatle Madness” Concerts 1, 2 and 3. “Sol Altaire and the Invaders” tour.

Personal Quote:
“I’ll be done about 10 seconds before show time!”

Personal Info:
I’m an ex-road warrior who used to travel as sound and lighting director for midlevel touring groups from 76 to 86. I lost my mind and control of finances upon seeing my first Genesis concert with moving lights. I do small regional concerts and special events with automated systems, primarily and put on elaborate Halloween displays to treat the neighborhood kids.

Hobbies:
Keeping maintenance up on my system! I do a different Halloween displays each year. I’m a music lover, from Pink Floyd to Southern Culture on the Skids with a healthy dose of techno thrown in. I write and record novelty songs, and am currently production manager for Sol Altaire and the Invaders, the first alien rock band to touch down on this planet.

Equipment:
5 High End Intellabeams, 12 High End Trackspots, 4 Geni Shiva Scanners, 3 AMDJ X-treme Scanners, approximately 10 other lower power scanners, various brands; 12 ADJ DMX-150 Color Changers, 10 ADJ DMX- 150 Color Changers with rotating gobos., 4 Elation Color 250 Color Changers, 16 PAR 64 cans (aluminum), 20 PAR 64 cans (steel), 24 PAR 56 cans (aluminum), assorted disco light effects, NSI MLC-16 and MLC-128 moving light consoles, NSI 16-channel light board, LSS 24-channel light board, Chauvet DMX-16 controller, Meteor Omni DMX controller, 4 8-channel relay controller panels, 12 Martin Starflash, Chauvet 400W blacklight, 5 Lightshow LED panels, 10 low power red and green lasers, assorted fog and haze machines.

Essential: Boxers, not briefs. Sweat towels. Cooler.