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Barbizon Lighting Expo Sessions
Led by John Gates
Session Topics
Green Lights for the Television Studio The Use of Energy Efficient Production Lighting Explained!
Chromakey - Daily Magic on the News Set
 John Gates is an award-winning lighting director with over twenty years of experience in lighting television, film and special events. You have seen John’s work on just about every domestic broadcast and cable network as well as several foreign networks: ABC, ARD, BBC, CBC, CBS, CNN, C-Span, Discovery Channel, ESPN, FOX, Group W, HBO, Hearst, MTV,NBC,RTE,PBS, Playboy, Tele+2, Dubai Television, among others. He has lit every U.S President since Nixon and worked in many formats, including HD & 3D. A working LD with experience teaching many master classes and lighting Workshops, John has taught lighting for film and video at Boston University since 1992.
You can reach Mr. Gates at john.gates@barbizonexpo.com
Led by Nancy Schertler
Session Topics
Color, Theory and Practice in Theatrical Design
You know the primary and secondary colors of light and pigment. You understand subtractive and additive mixing of color. You have those swell gel swatch books with hundreds of colors. What other variables do you need to consider when choosing the color for your theatrical lighting design? Of all the controllable properties of light: Intensity, Color, Distribution and Movement, color can be the most challenging to use effectively. Lighting Designer Nancy Schertler will discuss how your color choices will help you reach your objectives as a lighting designer.
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Design for Theatre in the Round
Lighting Designer Nancy Schertler will share strategies for designing in the round, learned over thirty years working and designing at Washington’s Arena Stage. Issues that will be explored include: the challenges all designers face when the actor is surrounded by the audience. What are methods that lighting designers can use to achieve their objectives of visibility, revealing the three dimensional form, composition, and creating the mood? Learn what works, and what to watch out for during the design and production process.
Download the Power Point Presentation used at the Expo by clicking here.
 Nancy Schertler lighted the Broadway productions of Fool Moon and Bill Irwin's Largely/New York, for which she received a Tony® Award nomination. Off-Broadway productions include Hilda, The Regard Evening, Texts for Nothing, and Falsettoland. Ms Schertler has collaborated on many new plays at regional theatres across the country, including The Gamester, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field and Levee James for ACT in San Francisco, The Sisters Matsumotto for Seattle Rep, A Christmas Carol at the Milwaukee Rep, and Tom Walker, Lovers and Executioners, and Shakespeare in Hollywood among others at Washington's Arena Stage, where she is an Affiliated Artist. Opera credits include productions with Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Opera, and the Wolf Trap Opera Company. She has collaborated on two operas commissioned by the University of Maryland, Clara, based of the life of Clara Schumann, and Later the Same Evening, an opera inspired by five paintings of Edward Hopper, a joint project of the National Gallery of Art and the University’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
You can reach Mrs. Schertler at nancy.schertler@barbizonexpo.com
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