NEW YORK – The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) announces a new IES Graduate Grant Program, designed to encourage advanced scholarly work in Lighting Design and Illuminating Engineering. Two grants are available for award: Ph.D. ($30,000) and Master’s ($15,000). The awards are expected to last two years for a Ph.D. and one year for a Master’s. Application deadline is March 1.
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STONY POINT, NY – Lighting Services Inc. named Brian Keilt regional sales manager for the Eastern U.S. and Eastern Canada. Keilt, who has more than 23 years of sales experience in managerial positions, will support the company’s rep network with product training and work with the design and specification community to keep them updated on the latest products and services that LSI has to offer.
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NEW YORK – Bandit Lites is illuminating Barry Manilow’s return to Broadway. LD Seth Jackson harkened back to his theatrical roots to create lighting looks for a stylized, one-man show for Manilow’s run at the St. James Theatre. “We did our best in the process to forego the ‘usuals’ of the concert look and paint with a much finer brush,” Jackson said.
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FT LAUDERDALE, FL — Chauvet lighting fixtures figure into the design of Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley’s Locked & Reloaded Tour. LD Chris Lisle created a design to suit Miranda’s rock’n’roll style, using 66 Chauvet fixtures including the Chauvet Professional Legend 230SR Beam moving yokes.
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ST. LOUIS – Experiential marketing agency Switch: Liberate Your Brand produced the stage show and video segments Jan. 21 for the St. Louis Arts Awards. The event at the Chase Park Plaza also honored local native musician Chuck Berry with a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award. To set the scene, Switched used pixel mapping with Barco FLM-HD20 projectors to project 3-D animation effects. The project took two weeks from conception to completion.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites is on the road again with Miranda Lambert, who is touring with Dierks Bentley on her Locked and Reloaded tour. LD Chris Lisle has worked with Lambert for eight years, and says this is her biggest production yet. Lisle’s challenge was incorporating a design based around Dierks Bentley’s portion of the show. In the design, Lisle is using – for the first time on the road – Chauvet’s newest Professional Legend 230SR Beam.
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LAS VEGAS – Chris Lose has joined Morpheus Lights as Account Representative-Touring Division. The Las Vegas-based Lose has experience as a touring lighting designer and director, including an in-house LD residency at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
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DALLAS – Syncrolite LLC named industry veteran David Keighley executive vice president and COO, effective Jan. 1, 2013. He is pictured here (left), along with Syncrolite founder, president and CEO Jack Calmes (center) and Jimmy Page (right). Syncrolite also announced a new private equity partner, Oklahoma City-based Hall Capital Partners.
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NEW YORK – Kevin Loretto has joined Robe Lighting Inc. as Eastern Business Development Manager. He will be based in the New York area for its proximity to the theatre market, but will work nationwide. Loretto previously worked with Creative Stage Lighting as Director of Sales.
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NEW YORK – PLASA, a global leader in developing technical standards for the entertainment industry, and the Event Safety Alliance, the emerging voice of event production best practices, are formally announcing their mutual endorsement in the ongoing efforts to raise awareness and use of industry best practices and technical standards throughout live entertainment production.
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