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A Lighting Panel with Marsha Stern’s Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor® Episode #012

Lighting Designer Marsha Stern started out lighting for discos in the 1970s before transitioning into architectural and architainment lighting projects in the 90s. She has a podcast, Heartbeat of the Dance Floor® that looks back fondly on the glory days of disco. In episode #12, Stern has assembled a lighting design panel to discuss lighting in those early days. Here is the video replay of A Lighting Panel with Special Guests Ken Billington, Jason Kantrowitz, (KB Associates / The Red Parrot),  Anne Militello (Vortex Lighting / California Institute of the Arts), and Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting / Saturday Night Fever dance floor):

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Les Goldberg Publishes 3rd Book, ‘The Show Must Go On: The Art of Leading Through a Crisis’

Les Goldberg, the founder and CEO of LMG and CEO of Entertainment Technology Partners, delivered yet another riveting entrepreneurial guide to success, this time amid a global pandemic. The release of his third book, The Show Must Go On: The Art of Leading Through a Crisis, offers quintessential strategies for successful crisis leadership.Read More »Les Goldberg Publishes 3rd Book, ‘The Show Must Go On: The Art of Leading Through a Crisis’

Early Career: The 1/52 Project Grantees

The 1/52 Project, the financial grant program founded by Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, has selected seven early-career designers as its first group of grant recipients. Each of the inaugural recipients will receive grants up to $15,000. The 1/52 Project launched in January 2022 with the goal of providing financial support to rising designers from historically excluded groups with the aim of diversifying and strengthening the Broadway design community.

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast with “Hamilton” Prop Master Jay Duckworth

In Episode #324 of The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast, which aired on July 4, 2022, host Gillian Pensavalle takes a deep dive with Hamilton Prop Master Jay Duckworth on how he got his start making props for the theater, what goes into bringing history to life on the stage, and Duckworth shares behind-the-scenes stories of Hamilton‘s journey, from early days at The Public to Broadway.Read More »The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast with “Hamilton” Prop Master Jay Duckworth

Bridging the Gaps Wherever They Are – with Victor Ortiz

with Victor Ortiz – Account Manager at Darvik Productions

On this podcast, we discuss returning to work in the COVID era, Brainstorming solution to the new world, maintaining constant contact with hundreds of clients and customers in isolation, maintaining genuine relationships with core friends/clients, how to get your costs down on rentals these days, how to present any idea to as many people as possible, the new load in processes and why relationships in our business matter so much.

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Pick Your Side of The Barricade – with Michael Smalley

with Michael Smalley – Creative Director, Lighting and Video Designer And Programmer at PHNTM Labs

On this podcast, we discuss what it’s like to be a fan of music in the music industry, star-fuckers, working with celebrities, dealing with friends who know you work with celebrities, managing guest passes, fan interactions at FOH, respecting your clients as celebrities and as bosses, Bringing family/spouses/partners to shows and how to pick the best side of the barricade.

Please visit: www.phntmlabs.com

Theater Was Made For TV – will Alan Adelman Podcast

with Alan Adelman – Lighting Designer

On this episode, we discuss the inevitable progression of theater from the proscenium to the screens, preserving theater for archival purposes, how COVID19 has changed theater folks view of video as a useful tool, how the time has finally coming for producers to see value in making good quality video captures of their stage work, breaking down the walls between theater and broadcast, making art vs. making craft, and how to prepare for the televised revolution.

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