Entertainment Lighting

Originally from Manila, Philippines, Cha See is a lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance, environmental performances and on-site installations in New York City. She recently worked on a New York Theatre Workshop production of the play Houseplant at the Fourth Street Theater. For reasons that she explains below, her lighting design necessitated a lot of green. Read on to see how she used three...

Regular users of GLP solutions, 30 Seconds to Mars, spent last summer playing festivals and indoor arenas across Europe, including two special ‘Mars Island’ shows on a private Croatian Island. Piloting their lighting and unique visual show was production designer Tom Campbell of MIRRAD, himself a regular user of GLP’s award-winning fixtures over the years. “The original impression series was one...

Theatre lighting design specialist Tyler Micoleau recently collaborated with New York based Public Theater’s Public Works programme, lighting a production of the musical Hercules, a world premiere presentation of a stage musical adaptation of the Disney film, developed in a unique collaboration between The Public Theater and Disney Theatrical Productions. To add poignancy, the venue chosen was the...

When is blue not blue enough? When you’re Tony and two-time Emmy-nominated lighting designer Mike Baldassari, the answer to that question was always “once the light dims down far enough – then it’s just a muddy brown.” Having worked on Broadway, feature films and TV specials, Mike had seen the vibrant blues he’d chosen for his lighting designs turn to mud as the light dimmed down time-and-time...

Stephen Arment, a High School Drama Teacher in Florida, shares his thoughts and feelings about the power of light and color in theatre after installing a fresh set of gels in his lights.

Weston Letters, an L.A.-based sign company, chose Rosco GamColor filters to cover the entire IAC building in Hollywood in rainbow colors for the 2018 Los Angeles Gay Pride Festival.