

I am a freshman Lighting Design student from Piedmont, OK. Production Electrician - Zach Polasek (Junior) Welcome to the Lighting Design and Technology Blog!īarbizon Lighting Charlotte Sales DepartmentĪnd Former Lighting Supervisor at Chicago Shakespeare Theatreįirst Dress Rehearsal for It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio PlayĪssistant Lighting Designer - Nick Villemarette (Freshman)

Areas include Concerts, Restaurants, Public Art/Sculptures, Museum Exhibitions, Fashion Shows, Retail Windows, Houses of Worship, and other special events. Museum, Fashion, & Special Event Lighting Design - Exploration and study of non-theatrical careers in lighting.
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Advanced electrical theory and safety, Lightwright, programming consoles and offline editors, counterweight rigging systems, soldering, data protocols, and LED technology. Lighting Design II - Advanced study of lighting techniques as they apply to opera, musicals, and dance, and the history of stage lighting.Īdvanced Electrical Production & Programming - Study of skills/duties of Master Electrician, Production Electrician, and Lighting Supervisor. Includes color theory, play analysis, drafting, programming of consoles, and physics of light.ĬAD for Theatre - Advanced study of Vectorworks and Lightwright software, enabling students to utilize these programs to create, edit, and maintain lighting plots and various paperwork. Lighting Design - Elements of design as they apply to the use of lighting design.

Hands-on experience mounting shows for School of Theatre and School of Music. Lighting Lab - Companion to Stage Lighting. Stage Lighting - Introduction to stage lighting equipment, techniques, practices, and safety. Students graduate well-rounded and prepared to enter the workforce. The Lighting Design and Technology track curriculum encompasses a wide scope of skills and artistic explorations. These internships increase the network of contacts that our graduates need to pursue a career in the lighting design industries. Lighting students have worked summer jobs and internships at a variety of locations, including Glimmerglass Opera, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Cirque du Soleil, Opera Saratoga, Six Flags Over Texas, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Music Theatre of Wichita, and Santa Fe Opera. Our students routinely graduate with two or three internships under their belts. Seniors commonly design lights for the School of Music MainStage Operas and Musicals, as well as continuing to serve as Production Electricians on the larger shows.īy the time a student has graduated from OCU with a Lighting Design and Technology Emphasis, they are ready to transition easily into any role in theatrical lighting design and production. Juniors customarily design lights for School of Music Spotlight productions or School of Theatre MainStage plays, as well as serving as Production Electrician one or two shows.
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Sophomores also generally assist Aaron Mooney, Professor of Lighting Design, on professional ballets with Oklahoma City Ballet at the Civic Center Music Hall, OKC’s touring house. Sometime in the sophomore year, each student will design their first show, usually a Stage II in the School of Theatre or a children’s theatre show with Oklahoma Children’s Theatre.
