2008 Broadway Lighting Master Class Speakers

Jules Fisher

Creative consultant for the BLMC since its debut, Jules Fisher has designed the lighting for more than 150 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, as well as film, ballet, opera, television, and rock-and-roll concert tours. He has garnered eight Tony Awards, a record in this category, for Pippin (1972), Dancin’ (1978), Ulysses in Nighttown (1973), Grand Hotel (1990), The Will Rogers Follies (1991), Jelly’s Last Jam (1992), Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk (1996), and Assassins (2004), the latter five collaborations with his long-time partner Peggy Eisenhauer....

Peggy Eisenhauer

Peggy Eisenhauer is partner to world-renowned lighting designer, Jules Fisher. They have been in collaboration for over 21 years...

Kevin Adams

Kevin Adams has designed lighting for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theatre, opera, pop concerts and solo artists across the US...

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Christopher Akerlind

Christopher Akerlind won a Tony, Drama Desk, Hewes Design, and Outer Critics Circle Award for his lighting design of The Light In the Piazza....

Howell Binkley

Howell Binkleyis currently represented on Broadway by Lovemusik, Jersey Boys, and Avenue Q, and is working on the world premiere of the new musical, Xanadu, set for June....

Beverly Emmons

Beverly Emmons has designed for Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, dance, and opera in the US and abroad. Her Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Passion, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Hapgood, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, The Dresser, and Doonesbury. Off-Broadway, she worked on the Vagina Monologues and with Joseph Chaikin, Meredith Monk, and Jack Hofsiss, among others. ...

Wendall K. Harrington

Wendall K. Harrington is the "godmother" of projection design. Her Broadway design credits include: Grey Gardens, In My Life, The Good Body, Vincent in Brixton, Amy’s View, Putting It Together, Ragtime, Freak, Company, The Will Rogers Follies, The Heidi Chronicles, The Who's Tommy, and They’re Playing Our Song. Opera credits include: The Grapes of Wrath for Minnesota Opera, The Turn of the Screw with The Royal Danish Opera, A View from the Bridge at the Met, The Photographer at BAM; The Magic Flute in Florence; and Orpheo in Vienna. ...

Vivien Leone

Vivien Leone has spent many years lending her creative eye to an impressive roster of productions both as lighting designer and as an associate LD...

Brian MacDevitt

Mar 17, 2008 12:16 PM

Brian MacDevitt is a prolific, award-winning lighting designer for theatrical productions. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, regional theatre, and Industrial productions. ...

Clifton Taylor

Clifton Taylor has created lighting, projection, and scenic designs for theater, dance and opera companies around the world. Broadway credits include: Jay Johnson: The Two and Only (Ovation & LA Drama Critics Circle Nominations), Frozen (Lortel Nomination), Hot Feet, (Henry Hewes Nomination). His work can be seen in the repertories of the Rambert Dance Company (London), American Ballet Theatre (NY), the San Francisco Ballet, the Scottish National Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet de Lorraine (Nancy, France), Ballet Jazz de Montreal, the San Francisco Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (NY), Maggio Danza (Florence, Italy), Sardono Dance Theatre (Indonesia), and the Ballet Company of Rio de Janeiro among many others....

Donald Holder

Donald Holder has been nominated for five Tony Awards and won the Tony for Best Lighting in 1998 for Disney's The Lion King, for which he also won the Drama Desk Award....

2008 Broadway Sound Master Classes Faculty

Henry Cohen

Feb 4, 2008 9:45 AM

Disassembling and repairing Citizen Band radios as a teenager in the early seventies was the impetus for a career encompassing wireless radio frequency equipment and technology in the entertainment production industry for over twenty-five years. ...

Jonathan Deans

Jan 22, 2008 4:24 PM

Jonathan Deans is without doubt at the top of his game. A top name in Broadway sound, his credits include Young Frankenstein, The Pirate Queen, Lestat, Brooklyn, Taboo, Follies, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Parade, Ragtime, Street Corner Symphony, Candide, and Damn Yankees. ...

Chris Hubbard

Feb 4, 2008 9:22 AM

Chris has over 15 years experience as a musical theatre sound designer and operator, and has designed and operated the sound for such productions as Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, The Witches Of Eastwick, Company, Song & Dance, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Chicago, Into The Woods, Hot Mikado, Hello Dolly, Bye Bye Birdie, Best Little Whore House In Texas & Big: The Musical...

Peter Hylenski

Jan 22, 2008 5:29 PM

Peter Hylenski’s sound design credits include recent Broadway productions Cry-Baby, The Times They Are A Changin’, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Jackie Mason, Freshly Squeezed, Little Women, and Brooklyn...

Abe Jacob

Jan 22, 2008 4:22 PM

Abe Jacob, Creative Consultant, is also known as the “Godfather of Theater Sound Design.” Jacob started his career mixing sound for such 1960s rock stars as Jimi Hendrix; the Mamas and the Papas; and Peter, Paul, and Mary; and designed the sound system for the Monterey Pop Festival. ...

Bob McCarthy

Feb 4, 2008 9:36 AM

Bob McCarthy has been intimately involved in sound system optimization using advanced measurement tools for over 20 years. ...

Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen

Jan 25, 2008 9:22 AM

Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen have been creating music and sound for twenty years. Broadway credits include A Year With Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. From 1977 through 1984, they composed and performed with their band, Fugue, including the score for Chicago's Remains Theatre production of Tooth of Crime (Jeff Award - Original Music)....

Dan Moses Schreier

Jan 22, 2008 5:25 PM

Dan Moses Schreier is currently working on the Broadway productions of Harvey Fierstein's new musical A Catered Affair and Arthur Laurents' production of Gypsy starring Patti Lupone. He recently received a Drama Desk nomination for his work on John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd on Broadway. ...

Steve Sockey

Feb 22, 2008 1:22 PM

Steve Sockey joined SIA Acoustics in 2000 having worked in the worlds of touring sound, TV production, studio recording and sound system design. Steve brings his practical experience to bear on SIA's most prominent projects....

2008 Broadway Projection Master Class Speakers

Zachary Borovay

Jan 22, 2008 4:29 PM

Zachary Borovay is a projection designer whose recent credits include A Catered Affair (Broadway), Radio City Music Hall's 75th Anniversary Christmas Spectacular, Xanadu (Broadway), I LAND (Culture Project), Nerds (Philadelphia Theatre Co.), 13 (Mark Taper Forum), The Wiz (Stage Entertainment, Holland) and Angels in America: The Opera (Opera Boston). ...

Marcel DeKeyzer

Mar 10, 2008 11:04 AM

In 1996, Marcel DeKeyzer, with his brother Rene began XL Video in Belgium and California. XL Video’s first major job was at the Formula One Grand Prix in Australia. After much success, DeKeyzer opened an office in Atlanta to provide services to the Olympic Games. ...