Terrence Spivey from Cleveland’s Karamu House Theatre Named Keynote Speaker for USITT 2015

CINCINNATI, OH — Terrence Spivey, artistic director at Cleveland’s historic Karamu House theatre, will deliver the keynote address at USITT’s 2015 Annual Conference & Stage Expo, which is set to take place at Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati from March 18-21, 2015. Spivey will open the four-day convention for technical theatre professionals, which is expected to draw close to 5,000 members of the backstage industry.

NASHVILLE, TN – For Garth Brooks’ recent shows, Bandit Lites provided lighting gear including recently-purchased Robe Robin 1200 LEDWash fixtures. LD Dave Butzler used the fixtures to create a variety of eye candy effects and color patterns along with wash coverage.

NASHVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites continues expanding its inventory with a purchase of German Light Products impression X4 and X4S fixtures. These high output LED’s utilize power, flexibility and a compact design to give designers the phenomenal lighting effects needed to take their audiences’ breath away.

Primeview USA has teamed with Lightware USA and High Resolution Systems to feature the manufacturers’ equipment in their Partnership Showroom. The models shown include the MX-FR17 17×17 Digital Matrix Router populated with HDMI 1.4 inputs and outputs that handle up to 4K resolutions and HDBaseT outputs. Some HDBaseT outputs of the Lightware matrix are directly connected to HDBaseT inputs on the Primeview displays and other are connected to Lightware HDMI-TPS-RX95 HDBaseT receivers.

For pop band St. Lucia’s fall tour, Production Manager Gordon Droitcour designed a self-contained, auto-triggering, midi-controlled system for both lights and video. The show is based from the band’s existing backing tracks which triggers lighting cues via software lighting consoles and video files via an ArKaos Media Master. All lighting and video products are serviced through Elite Multimedia.