Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life by Chapman, Emma

Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350295933)

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Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life by Chapman, Emma

Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life

$120.00
Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life by Chapman, Emma

Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers a bridge between the basic skills of being a lighting designer to the early steps as a professional lighting designer through inspiration and practical advice from established lighting designers at various stages of their careers.

Interviewees include Neil Austin, Natasha Chivers, Jon Clark, Paule Constable, Rick Fisher, Jessica Hung Han Yun, Rich Howell, Howard Hudson, Mark Jonathan, Amy Mae, Bruno Poet, Jackie Shemesh and Johanna Town.

From them as well as the authors' experience, you gain insights into:

> how they approach each design;
> the various challenges of lighting shows;
> how they deal with those challenges, from working with a new director to seeing a set model for the first time;
> how they approach artistic elements such as colour, shadow, darkness;
> how they move from getting enough work to pay the bills to lighting some of the world's biggest shows;
> how they manage artistic collaborations, including with associate lighting designers, programmers, electricians

Author: Emma Chapman, Rob Halliday
ISBN-10: 1350295930
ISBN-13: 9781350295933
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2024
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
By Emma Chapman
By Emma Chapman
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Rob Halliday is a lighting designer for Guidizio Universale, Tree of Codes and others. He has worked as programmer/associate lighting designer for productions such as Billy Elliot, Miss Saigon and Les Misérables and technical writer for Lighting+Sound International, Lighting & Sound America, Theatre Crafts and others, with many of these articles collected together in the Entertainment In Production books. Rob Halliday also works as a columnist for The Stage and as a guest speaker at drama schools and trade shows around the world.

Emma Chapman is a lighting designer known for her work on productions including Kiss Me, Kate (Paris, Luxembourg); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre, Soho); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatr Clwyd, Mold), Lungs (Paines Plough); and the Olivier-award-winning play The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios). She was Co-Designer of Roundabout, winner of The Stage Awards' Theatre Building of the Year 2015 and was on the judging panel for the 2019 & 2020 ALD Michael Northern Awards for Lighting Designers. Emma Chapman also works as a theatre consultant and designer for Charcoalblue and now for Studio Three Sixty.

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