Lombardi Review round-up
Lombardi opened this week at Circle in the Square. Although there are some sticklers out there, it fared pretty well with all of the reviews.
Lombardi opened this week at Circle in the Square. Although there are some sticklers out there, it fared pretty well with all of the reviews.
The co-director and author of The Tenement, Jonothon Lyons ended up winning an award for Outstanding Short Script at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards last week. This only goes to show you that a script doesn’t even need any dialogue in it, if the stage action is written well and it tells a good [...]
As part of the IT Awards, several of the nominees were asked a few questions about their process and their thoughts on the off-off-Broadway community. Read all about it at Theatre is Easy.
My article on the Barco CLM projectors is up at livedesignonline.com. We used one on Lombardi at the Mahaiwe theater which we controlled using the lighting desk over DMX. The great thing about this projector is that by using the “intensity” setting over DMX, we could build fade-ins and outs that match the lighting perfectly [...]
I worked with props supervisor Matt Hodges on the labels and posters for the ever-powerful Zanoplax, featured in this CollegeHumor video:
I’m honored to be nominated for three awards myself for Innovative Design, Set Design, and a shared nomination with Jonothon Lyons for Direction. Also congrats to Jonothon of Associated Mask Ensemble for his nominations in Choreography, Original Music, Original Script, and Innovative Design. Full details at Playbill.com
Associate Projection Designer Animation – Associate Design – Editing – Watchout Programming Lombardi ran at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center July 22 – 28, 2010 before it opened on Broadway on October 21, 2010 and ran through May 22, 2011 at Circle in the Square. Credits Written By: Eric Simonson Source Material: David Maraniss Director: [...]
I made a reference guide on LiveDesign Online as to which formats I use for video design and how to encode them. It is as much for me to refer to and remember as it is for anyone else.
I worked with Jake Pinholster on Wishful Drinking this week, and they’ll be taping it for HBO during the three performances in South Orange, NJ. Friday and Saturday only, June 25 & 26.
I’m in the land of Hot Pot and Jingkelong. I wrote my next post for LiveDesign Online and basically I’m a cheerleader for fancy computers. Check it out here: LiveDesign.
Really, china is mostly sitting on a giant, fluorescent blue bear wearing a face visor and a hoodie. These are requirements of the tech process in China.
Working on Reel to Real with fellow Brooklynite projection designer, Jeff Sugg. After the 4-week run in Huairou, China, Reel to Real will be moving to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and playing at the Pleasance Courtyard August 4-30.
I wrote an article for LiveDesign about trying to wrangle the iPad (or iPhone or other future iterations) to playing video cues remotely. Check it out here: iPad As Scenic.
In a special tribute to the late Lee Nagrin, tomorrow, April 29, Basil Twist is performing a section from Behind the Lid with the video puppet we built. You can see it at Here Arts Center in the Dorothy B. Williams theater downstairs at 7:30. Tickets are $15 and are probably sold out, but in case [...]
In this New York Times Arts Beat article, Bobby Sheehan, the director of the documentary “Arias With a Twist,” describes what the performer Joey Arias represents in the contemporary art scene.