LAS VEGAS — Earlier this month, PLSN’s newsletter called for nominations for regional lighting production companies worthy of receiving the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year. PLSN readers responded almost instantly, with a steady influx of names including a variety of well-known companies along with some others who are being nominated for the Hometown Hero award for the first time.
This year’s deadline for submitting nominations is July 31, which will be here before you know it, so if you know of a company that is deserving of this honor and they’re not on the list below, be sure to visit www.plsn.com/hometown and nominate them right away!
Regional finalists will be named shortly after the nominations close July 31. Voting on the regional finalists will then take place, with regional winners determined by August 30.
The winners for each region automatically become the finalists for the 2014 Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year Award, which will be presented at the Parnelli Awards Dinner scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 22 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Here’s the sampling of the names we’ve already received for the 2014 Hometown Hero awards competition:
Northeast:
Afterglow Lighting, Baltimore, MD
Bentley Meeker, New York, NY
BML-Blackbird, Secaucus, NJ
East Coast Lighting & Production Services, Warwick, RI
EGI Event Production Services, Egg Harbor City, NJ
Flyspace Productions, Pittsburgh, PA
NMR Events, Monroe Township, NJ
Show Lighting, Berlin, CT
Starlite Productions, Moorestown, NJ
TAJ Event Productions Inc., New York, NY
Southeast:
Atlanta Sound and Lighting, Atlanta, GA
Music Matters Productions, Atlanta, GA
Rental Stages Inc., Hollywood, FL
Midwest:
Allied Production & Sales, Inver Grove Heights, MN
Chicago Spotlight, Chicago, IL
Gemini Light Sound Video, Dallas TX
ILIOS Lighting, Austin, TX
Majestic Productions, Summitville, IN
Nashville Event Lighting Co., Nashville, TN
RAD’s FX, Kansas City, MO
Reach Communications, Brooklyn Park, MN
Sideline Productions, Brookings, SD
TLS Productions, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
Vincent Lighting Systems, Erlanger, KY
Northwest:
Alaska Universal Productions, Inc., Fairbanks, AK
Impact Lighting, Richmond, CA
Southwest:
Blue Planet Lighting, Inc., Las Vegas NV
Clearwing Productions, Phoenix, AZ
Creative Backstage, Phoenix, AZ
Eggshell Light Co., Honolulu, HI
Felix Lighting, Los Angeles, CA
Hawaii Stage & Lighting Rentals, Honolulu, HI
Kinetic Lighting, Glendale, CA
LD Systems, Houston, TX
Onstage Systems, Dallas, TX
Precise Corporate Staging, Tempe, AZ
Zebra Productions, Colorado Springs, CO
Canada:
Bold Productions, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ottawa Special Events, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Production Design International, Toronto, ON Canada
ShowWorks Inc., Brampton, ON Canada
Tour Tech East, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
To add a regional lighting company’s name to the nominees listed here, go to www.plsn.com/hometown.
For more information on the Parnelli Awards, go to www.parnelliawards.com.
