The director's vision for the production of "Urinetown: The Musical" at Southwestern College was to present a show with elements of Orwell’s 1984 in mind, but exaggerated into comedy. Images of Gotham city and acid colors, rather than natural, are the ideas which fueled this production. Roscolux 86 (Pea Green) enhanced the sewer scenes, giving the stage a hint of rank humor. This color was introduced with a special from the sewer entrance, and filled in the stage as the location on stage was identified.

R124-Cyc Silk Red on the cyclorama from both the top and the bottom to highlight Bernardo and Riff's death during the dream.

R382-Congo Blue from a low sidelight angle to portray a dreamlike quality with harsh shadows on the ensemble.

R60-Front light to maintain a pale yet not too cold illumination of the actors. Also used as a downlight and a low front fill.

Gobo R77228 shooting from SL & SR to illuminate the city facade with texture akin to light broken up by fire escapes.

Proof- The Originals, Bar Mills, Maine.
R36 from Stage right
R06 from Stage left

Lighting for Flamingo-A-Go-Go, PROP's (People's Regional Opportunity Program) annual fundraiser. The following Roscolux filters were used to light the flamingo ice sculpture and food table; #336: Billington Pink & Roscolux #59: Indigo. Three instruments were used to create this effect. Two of the instruments had color filters while the third did not. Light Design by: Eric N. Sawyer/After Hours Productions

Not the best photo but R99 Chocolate was the choice of general wash for this show - love the warmth it gives without being "sunny" like straw. One of my favourite front light "wash" colours.

The FOH rig was very limited for this show, and lower than ideal so it became very "front light" which wasn't the original plan - the only front light colours were R99 and open white.

Production: "Tether End" by Estrado Theatre Company
LD Ross McKillop
SM Morven Henderson
Director Tom McKeown

Emerson Stage presents Incorruptible. Semel Theater. Lighting design by Alex Wesley Brandt.
The show takes place in an old monastery in France. R09 was used for area light to create a candlelit feel, along with R01 in a downlight system. R321 was used to enhance the effect in more intimate moments.
The monastery is falling apart in Act 1, and R77642 (Triangles Small) was used to create an effect of lighting coming in through tattered rafters.

R27 - Medium Red R60 - No Color Blue In early meetings Chris [director] and I were thinking of a convention to give the sense of perpetual looming danger. Battle between God and the angels has been declared and the human people are merely collateral damage. The play is set in a fantastical land where the moon has gone away, and the milk has turned to salt. Needless to say the "rules" of this world set the stage for a very bold design. While sifting through my image bank for suitable research I came across this evocative image [Photo 1]. It was PERFECT.

R26 R60

Bones in a Basket At the yale cabaret 2010

Il Trovatore is a dark opera that takes place primarily in the evening-night hours. For this, we chose to light the scenes with different saturations and hues of blue through the arc of the show in order to evoke different times of the night. This called for a versatile selection of cool colors which I know Rosco can always provide for me. Colors used included R55, R360, R366, R73, and R74. Using one of these colors alone, or when layered with lighting from other direction and intensity, really provided me with the palette I had envisioned from the beginning.

Hello Rosco!

I used R09 at Walter Johnson High School's "Footloose" back in 2009 when I was the Co-Lighting Designer with my best friend. Since then I have continued to fall in love with theatre and moved on to study Lighting Design in college and participate with the summer program. Thank you Rosco for being a fantastic company!