Indulging my A.D.D., exploiting my O.C.D., and perfecting the art of the 26 hour day.
Forget who I'd like to meet - I'd like YOU to meet all the amazing Bands and Artists and Performers I've met and associated with over the years whom the larger entertainment machine and the consuming masses have forgotten, neglected, or overlooked.
I grew up in LA in the 70s and 80s, fed on a steady diet of suburban sensibilities, prog rock narcissism and punk rock rebellion. Jazz Band practice in the afternoon, Theatre rehearsals in the evening, New Wave Theatre on TV at midnite on Friday nite. People back then generally failed to notice that the system was learning to crush what it couldn't profit from. The independent thinkers and street dwellers of hollywood's tarnished glamour and urban warzone were sounding the alarm all along.
Fear: I Don't Care About You
X: Los Angeles
Concrete Blonde: Still In Hollywood
Circle Jerks: Wild In The Streets
Peter Ivers, Host of New Wave Theatre: Slap The Genkels
With repsect to ALL projects listed below, my involvement may have been as one or more of the following:
Production Designer, Lighting Designer, Scenic Designer, Lighting Director, Associate Designer, Assistant Lighting Designer, Lighting Director/Automated Lighting Director, Projected Graphics Artist, Automated Lighting Programmer, Additional Lighting and/or Programming, Production Electrician.
That's a really long way of saying I work at a number of variations on a basic theme, and not every job on every project has quite the same requirements (or titles!). I'll fill in the specifics later, but much respect to all the other professionals I've had the opportunity to work for or with on the projects listed on this page - nothing happens without the team!
Anything on the road right now?
Why, yes:
Saosin
LA show: Tue. Oct. 2, The Avalon
(It'll always be "The Palace" to me, dammit...)
OC show: Thur. Oct 4, The Grove
What about other pet projects?
8mm
Run, don't walk to their next show...
Past projects include:
A Perfect Circle
Meat Beat Manifesto
Nine Inch Nails
David Bowie
Prick
KidneyThieves
Methods of Mayhem
Pantera
Oingo Boingo
...oh, and if you go back far enough, Englebert Humperdink - but we'll just keep that between us friends.
Past projects include:
Memoirs of a Geisha
What's Love Got To Do With It
Contact
Sister Act II
Karate Kid III
One of the above films won an Academy Award for Cinematography. When it was announced on the air, I jumped off the couch and shouted like I'd seen a world-series winning home run and it felt great! Little people like me - you know, the people who let's say for the sake of argument lit and programmed the musical number generally don't get credit or get acknowledged, but I and others know what I contributed. I can go to that scene in that film for the rest of my days and say "I did that."
Frankly, that's enough for me.
Past projects include:
The Academy Awards (64th and 65th annual)
Comic Relief (#5 and #6)
The Miss America Pageant (1992 and 1999)
The Soul Train Music Awards (5th and 6th annual)
A Performance For The President from Ford's Theatre (1992)
The Concert for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
The BBC's Top Of The Pops (US remote performances, 2000)
NBC's Deal Or No Deal (Season 1)
Fox's Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader (Season 1 and ongoing)
DirecTV's CDUSA (June 2006 to series finale, Jan 2007)
American Idol 2003 (selected episodes)
UPN's R U The Girl season finale (2005)
The Whoopi Goldberg Show (Season 1)
Of all the television shows I've done, six shows were nominated for Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding lighting design, and one show won a Daytime Emmy award for outstanding lighting design. These shows took place before the days of programmers being acknowledged as the lighting directors they are expected to be so there's no certificate on my wall or little gold statue on my mantle. As I said above: I and others know what I contributed, and that's enough for me.
Hey, I need a Theatre section...Let's use this section!
Past projects include:
Thirteen
by Jason Robert Brown
Mark Taper Forum, LA
Oscar Wilde's Salome - The Reading with Al Pacino
Wadsworth Theater, LA
Little Shop Of Horrors
Virginia Theater, NYC
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
2003 Los Angeles Production, Ahmanson Theater, LA.
Movin' Out
Shubert Theater, Chicago, IL.
Disney's The Lion King
Los Angeles Company, Pantages Theater, LA
London Company, Lyceum Theater, London
Hamburg Company, Theater Im Hafen, Hamburg
New York Company, New Amsterdam Theater, NYC
Children and Art: Sondheim's 75th
New Amsterdam Theater, NYC
Performance benefitting Young Playwrights, Inc.
Funny Girl
New Amsterdam Theater, NYC
The Actor's Fund Annual Benefit 2002.
Super? or just Normal?