How I Did That

How We Did That: Wine & Spirits

I was pleased when longtime client Christopher Allen, executive producer of HKM productions, asked me to join the design team for E&J Gallo Winery's 75th...

Stage

How I Did That: Go Ask Alice

Student performers from three universities—University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Bradley University in Illinois, and University of Waterloo in Canada—leapt from stage to stage in a digital-age version of Lewis Carroll’s classic that achieves the latest breakthroughs in distance theatre technology...

How I Did That: Thirty Companies, Six Nights

Coordinating the Fall For Dance Festival at NY's City Center...

How We Did That...

Lighting the Ernst & Young, LLP 2005 Partner Meeting in Orlando...

Problem/Solution: Take My Knife, Please!

Throwing knives safely, and consistently, on set with wireless technology...

Problem/Solution

Problem/Solution: Suspension of Disbelief

Problem Kate Robin's Intrigue with Faye is the story of a therapist and a documentary filmmaker who try mending their troubled relationship with videotape....

Problem/Solution: Projection To The Rescue

San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse (LJP) thinks of itself as a research and development lab for new American plays headed for Broadway. Shows have to be big,...

Problem/Solution: Everything To Everyone

Problem If you haven't seen one of Terry Gipson's production designs lately, chances are your kids have. Rhinebeck, NY-based Gipson Design Group has done...

Problem/Solution: Seaside Setting

Problem Michael Yeargan's design for the Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific is more presentational than realistic, with a tropical bamboo surround...

Sound System Design and Alignment

Tutorial from chapter 2 of 'Sound Systems: Design and Optimization' by Bob McCarthy. ...

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October 20-26, 2008 · Las Vegas, Nevada

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May 16-22, 2008 · New York City

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