Various production stills from my lighting design of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge at Pacific Resident Theater in Los Angeles, CA

The Preshow look of Sarah Rhul's Melancholy Play.

The main colors that are shown are a split gel of R09 and R66 I made to give off warm and cool tones to help give variation in the gobo and on the folds of costumes. The back cyc wall was where the director and I were mostly concerned with time of day, as it is easiest to change color on. I also had cool sidelights from stage right in R62, in case the show needed a blast of cool. This was also because the paint treatment was very warm and it helped cool it down when needed.

Hecuba is lamenting the death of her grandson while the Chorus weeps with her.

Each of these photos are moments in the show where I had to convey a flirtatious and sexual mood. As the show progressed into night, so did the sexual tension therefore, I used a variety of pinks and lavenders.

In this picture, the refugee chorus is washed in side light as Anon considers his next move in a special downstage center.

Photo 01 - the battle - explosions as the fight begins, set at night, I used breakups for main face light.
Photo 05 - at the gate, a night scene, lit with only breakups in a cool color and rich deep blue for back light.
Photo 06 - Warm breakups for front light with Cool blue and deep blue for back light.
Breakups used - R77779 and R77811

Creating romance on a small budget

Beginning of play. I wanted to portray the feeling of a closed, confined space in keeping with the director's concept. I also wanted to indicate the hope of a possible brighter future. R349 did this.

Still taken from opening of Fighting Chance Production's Sweeney Todd.

Simple top down special in R3204/R132 with a backlight wash of R82. And smoke. Lots of smoke from an Alpha 900 .