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Design Resources Page My aim here is to highlight those resources that I find most useful or inspiring. Below the web sites are some books.
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Design Resources Page My aim here is to highlight those resources that I find most useful or inspiring. Below the web sites are some books.
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General Lists of Web Sites Theatre Resources - Worlds Largest List (not sure but big) - Bill Williams Marvelous Lists,
Associations ABTT - USITT - CITT- ESTA - United Scenic Artists (US Union now affiliated with IATSE) - PLASA - ALD.
For Job Hunting The Stage (UK Theatre Newspaper) - Backstage Jobs (US Website) - Artsearch (US subscription list - good but $64 pa) - Stage Specs -
Places I have worked Bradford University SU - Theatre in the Mill, Quaker Youth Theatre (Leaveners) , St Donats Arts Centre, Atlantic College, The Banff Centre, Opera North, CCM - UC, California State University - Chico,
Software to assist with Lighting Design - Vectorworks Spotlight and Lightwright, (what I currently use althought both frustrate me at times because of too many bugs and inflexiblities), and two alternatives I am considering because they are AutoCAD based - LD Assistant and AutoBlock.
Lighting Design Web Sites Lighting Designers Web Ring,
Just for Fun The Stages Cartoon - Hamlet - Tools for Stagecraft (generally too expensive but great to window shop or point to for Christmas) - Stage Hands Page - Bath Students page - includes the gaffa tape archive - Backstage Calamities - Crew Toons.
Magazines / newspapers Lighting Dimensions, The Stage.
Stage Lighting Design - The Life The Craft The Art. by Richard Pilbrow. New Edition in 1997. Wonderful and inspiring from one of the nicest and most experienced designers out there. Coffee Table, Text Book, Sort ones direction out sorta book. Mid Atlantic.
A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting by Steven Louis Shelly. A new book to me but the first to cover the process including the paperwork in detail, cuing, focusing for straight theatre. Larger than life character really likes helping out students. Great. Advanced text book, US.
Designing with Light by Michael Gillette. Mid range text book, bit advanced for beginners. US.
Create Your Own Stage Lighting by Tim Streader and John A Williams. Mid range text book. UK.
Stage Lighting Revealed by Glen Cunningham. Beginners text book, US.
The Stage Lighting Handbook by Francis Reid. Beginners text book - updated, UK.
Stage Lighting Design, A Practical Guide by Neil Fraser. Good Teaching tool, UK.
Joseph Svoboda - Scenographer, Ed Giorgio Ursini Ursic. Inspiring text and pictures of the great mans designs.
The development of the English Playhouse AND Theatre and Playhouse both by Richard Leacroft. Bit dated but great line drawings of theatres if one is interested in theatre architecture.
