In association with
VLPS Lighting Services & IATSE Local 22 Training Department presents
Lighting Design
with Beverly Emmons, Eric Cornwell, and Matt Hudson, Moving Light Programmer for the film Chicago
July 5-17, 2004
Fourteen lighting designers will work with distinguished designers in the Kennedy Center's Theatre Lab and a specially constructed Lighting Lab for the Vari-lites.
This rigorous master class will focus on the lighting design process with lecture/demonstrations and practical laboratory projects modeled on the KCACTF National Festival Lighting Project, and a full Vari-Lite rig provided by VLPS Lighting Services and Vari-Lite International.
The participating lighting designers will work on real life lighting problems using the new equipment. These problems will deal with classical issues of color, angle and intensity with the new vocabulary and syntax of the moving light world.
Vari-Lite is a leading worldwide designer and manufacturer of automated lighting products. The company markets its products primarily to the entertainment industry, serving such markets as concert touring, theater, television and film and corporate events. Vari-Lite is a division of Genlyte Thomas Group. The company sells VARI*LITE® automated lighting equipment through a dedicated sales staff and a worldwide network of independent dealers.
The I.A.T.S.E. is the labor union representing technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, film and television production, and trade shows.
Class times:
9:30am-6pm, Sunday July 11 is off
Participation:
14 designers, faculty and students, will be accepted.
Tuition:
$900 for the master class
$850 for faculty or students from KCACTF participating institutions
$800 for faculty and students whose home institutions are offering scholarship or professional development support, at any level, for this opportunity.
Tickets are available, at additional charge, for the Kennedy Center TENNESSEE WILLIAMS EXPLORED production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE featuring Sally Field as Amanda, designed by John Lee Beatty, Jane Greenwood and Howell Binkley, directed by Garry Hynes.
Housing:
Available at a rate of $40 per night- or $560 for the entire master class period- shared lodging- in the George Washington University Residence Halls.
To Apply:
- A letter stating and detailing your interest in participating in the master class
- A resume detailing your training, design and related experience
- A small selection of traditional paperwork (cue sheets, Light plot, color key, magic sheet and traditional paperwork ) representing your work
- A brief sampling of Visual materials which serve to show your method of research and preparation: preliminary sketches, photographic images, “sources of inspiration”
- Up-to six color Xeroxes or digital photos from your portfolio offering a strong representative view of your body of work
Send to:
KCACTF Lighting Design
The Kennedy Center
Box 10808
Arlington, Virginia 22210
Or to:
ghenry@kennedy-center.org
by: Friday, April 2nd. Participants will be notified by April 30.
(Early submission and acceptance notification may be possible if applicants' home institutions have earlier professional development funding deadlines. Please inquire at the e-mail address above)
The Teachers:
Beverly Emmons , Lighting Design: has designed for Broadway, Off-Broadway and Regional Theater, Dance and Opera both in the USA and abroad. Recent work includes Pericles directed by Andre Serban and The Sound of a Voice by David Hery Hwang and Philip Glass, directed by Robert Woodruff for American Repertory Theatre, The Wizard of Oz for Childrens' Theatre Company. Her New York credits include The Vagina Monologues, Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Passion, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Amadeus,The Elephant Man, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, The Dresser, Piaf , and Doonesbury . Additionally, she has worked with Liviu Ciulei, Jack Hofsiss, Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk among others. With Robert Wilson: Einstein on the Beach and the Civil Wars Pt. V . For dance: Lucinda Child, Trisha Brown, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Awards: the Tony, seven Tony nominations, the Lumen, two Bessies, and an Obie.
Eric Cornwell works as a free-lance lighting designer and assistant in New York. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies. On Broadway he was the assistant lighting designer on Show Boat, Into the Woods, Five Guys Named Moe, The Secret Rapture, High Rollers, Sleight of Hand and Tango Pasion . He was staff assistant designer at New York City Opera and has assisted on new productions and on tour with the Metropolitan Opera. Eric has designed lighting for over one hundred productions in New York from Broadway to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the Bronx Opera. He has lighted performances at the Edinburgh Festival, the Cannes Dance Festival, the Paris Festival d'Automne, the Next Wave Festival, and the Serious Fun Festival. For the past fourteen years he has worked with Mandy Patinkin as production director, lighting supervisor, and lighting designer for his concert tours.
The Lighting Intensive will run concurrently with the Summer Intensives in costume and scenic design lead by the artists below. Opportunities for interaction will occur.
Constance Hoffman , Costume Design: The Shakespeare Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Glimmerglass/New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Center Stage, Second Stage. With Julie Taymor: Titus Andronicus, The Flying Dutchman, The Green Bird (Tony Nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award). Upcoming- When You Wish- Disney Theatricals. 2000 Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.
Ming Cho Lee is one of the foremost set designers in America today. Dance: Martha Graham, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Eliot Feld Ballet, Jose Limon, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. From 1962 through 1973, he was the principal designer for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Opera:Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera. Theatre: Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway.
Internationally, Mr. Lee has designed productions for Covent Garden, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro Colon, Royal Danish Ballet, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Taipei), the Hong Kong Cultural Center, and Buhnen Graz (Austria). His numerous Awards and distinctions include a Tony Award, Helen Hayes Award, New York Drama Desk and New York and Los Angeles Outer Circle Critics Awards and Ovation Award (Los Angeles), three honorary doctorates, awards for long-term achievement from 6 major theatre and opera organizations, the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture from New York City, and induction to the Theatre Hall of Fame. His work was shown recently in a retrospective at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and at the National Museum of History in Taipei, Taiwan. As an architectural consultant, Mr. Lee designed theatres for Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and the State University of New York at Purchase. He holds the Donald Oenslager chair in Design and is co-chair of the design department at the Yale School of Drama.
Questions: contact Gregg Henry at ghenry@kennedy-center.org
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts